A 102-lot attached single-residence development called The Lincoln is planned on 9.1 acres 340 feet west of the southwest corner of Hampton Avenue and Crismon Road.
The Mesa Planning and Zoning Board on Jan. 14 voted 6-0 to recommend the Mesa City Council approve a minor general plan amendment to change the placetype from urban center to urban residential. They also voted to recommend the approval of a special use permit, site plan review and rezoning the property from planned employment park with a planned area development overlay to multiple residence 2 with a planned area development overlay. Board member Chase Farnsworth was absent.
The two items before the board were approved with a stipulation made by Vice Chair Troy Peterson that the wall along the State Route 24 freeway frontage be increased to 8-feet tall.
Walls planned for the development were 6-feet tall to 6-feet, 4-inches tall, according to a wall plan details document.
“I don’t see any issues with it. It will help,” Chair Benjamin Ayers said prior to the vote. “Although I don’t think it would make a huge difference, I do think from an acoustics standpoint and from a visual standpoint it’s probably useful. The applicant is willing to do that, and I think that’s a good suggestion. So I think I would support that as well.”
Brennan Ray of the Ray Law Firm is the applicant. Virtua Mesa Crismon Owner LLC is the owner.
The Lincoln is a gated three- and four-bedroom townhome development. It will be managed by a single property management company, Porter Kyle Builders LLC wrote in a project narrative.
“The site is a long-vacant, infill, commercially zoned parcel that has not developed under its current entitlements despite significant growth in the area,” it states. “Across just 23 residential buildings, there are 18 distinct elevation combinations of form and color, creating a highly varied streetscape while maintaining a cohesive modern farmhouse and ranch character with stucco, board-and-batten and masonry accents, and flat concrete tile roofs.”
The seven-member Planning and Zoning Board conducts hearings and make recommendations to the City Council on requests for changes in zoning and on required site plans. It also considers and recommends changes in the city’s long-range plans and in the municipal code concerning planning and zoning matters. Members are appointed for staggered terms of three years.
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Meet Richard Richard Dyer has worked at Independent Newsmedia Inc. USA since 1987, starting his career in Apache Junction as a copy editor and being promoted over the years to work as the editor of the Mesa Independent, news services editor for the East Valley office in Apache Junction, managing editor for the East Valley office, news services editor for the East Valley office and eventually also for the newspapers at INI’s then-Chandler office, managing editor again and as a news editor covering Apache Junction/Gold Canyon and Queen Creek. He helped start the Florence Independent while the news editor covering Apache Junction and Mesa news. In January 2023, he became associate managing editor for the East Valley newspapers and in August 2023 became managing editor for the East Valley newspapers of Chandler/Tempe, Gilbert, Queen Creek, Florence, Mesa and Apache Junction/Gold Canyon, while also reporting on Mesa and Apache Junction/Gold Canyon.
Community: Since 2009, he has worked as a volunteer to design The Blue Guitar Magazine, Blue Guitar Jr. magazine and Unstrung magazine, which are projects of The Arizona Consortium for the Arts; and since 2014, has been overseeing the art submissions.
Education: University of Arizona with a master of arts in journalism and a bachelor of science in agricultural communication. Also continuing education at Mesa Community College in welding in a metal art sculpture class.
Random fact: Saw his first tornado on May 31, 2010, which was classified as an EF-2, as part of a stormchasing tour group.
Hobbies: He is an artist of welded-steel sculptures, selling his artwork at juried and non-juried art shows.
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