Goodyear Redevelopment Plan up for commission renewal vote
Panel also will review preliminary plat for Lucero community
Independent Newsmedia
Posted 8/24/20
The Goodyear Planning and Zoning Commission will review the city’s Redevelopment Plan during regular virtual session Wednesday, Aug. 26 to determine whether it conforms to the city’s General Plan and vote on whether to recommend that the City Council renew the plan.
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Get the agenda: goodyear.legistar.com/calendar.aspx
Questions, comments: Email up to 380 words to publiccomments@goodyearaz.gov; include the agenda item number, your contact information and whether you are a Goodyear resident
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Independent Newsmedia
The Goodyear Planning and Zoning Commission will review the city’s redevelopment plan during regular virtual session Wednesday, Aug. 26 to determine whether it conforms to the city’s general plan and vote on whether to recommend the City Council renew it.
The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. Those interested in watching can do so on the city’s Facebook page, www.facebook.com/goodyearazgov. Those wishing to submit comments are asked to send up to 380 words to publiccomments@goodyearaz.gov; include the agenda item number, your contact information and whether you are a Goodyear resident.
Redevelopment areas provide cities with tools to make improvements in older, blighted areas.
According to a staff report, Goodyear’s redevelopment area was established in 2004 and the Council adopted the plan the following year. The plan has been amended several times, and in 2016, the city designated the area’s Central Business District as part of the plan.
The area's boundaries are Interstate 10 to the north, the city limits to the east, Broadway Road to the south and Bullard Wash/Estrella Parkway to the west. Included in the area are the Historic Goodyear neighborhood, the Phoenix-Goodyear Airport, city superfund sites and the first commercial developments in the city.
In 2018, the state Legislature voted to require all cities review and renew, modify or terminate any redevelopment area designation that includes a central business district by Oct. 1, 2020, if the redevelopment area was originally designated before Sept. 30, 2018.
Renewing the area's designation and adopting the plan will allow the city to continue using the government property lease excise tax program, according to the staff report.
Known as a GPLET, the program allows land to be developed and then owned by the city and leased back to the developers for up to 25 years.
In other business, the commission will consider a staff recommendation to recommend that the City Council approve a Preliminary Plat for Estrella Parcel 11.H, subdividing approximately 25 acres at Hillside and Sendero drives into 67 lots and five tracts for Newland Communities’ low- to medium-density Lucero housing community.
If the planning commission approves staff recommendations, both items will be sent to the City Council for further consideration.
