Modifying a development unit plan for 181 acres of the Eastmark community and approving a second one for 145 acres should be approved, the city’s planning and zoning board recommended recently.
Eastmark, the 3,200-acre master-planned community south of Elliot Road, north of Williams Field Road, east of Ellsworth Road and west of Signal Butte Road, has a community plan composed of nine development unit plans.
The new development unit plan with a mixture of uses would be for 145 acres south of Elliot Road and east of Ellsworth Road. The modification to development unit two on 181 acres north of Warner Road and east of Ellsworth Road would add a large-scale campus as one of the allowed uses, as approved by the Planning and Zoning Board March 24 in a consent agenda with other items.
The Mesa City Council will make the final decision at a future meeting.
Eric Tune of Brookfield Development is the applicant. DMB Mesa Proving Grounds LLC is the owner.
DU2 presently allows multiple uses including residential, offices and commercial businesses. The proposed modifications would allow an option for the property to be developed for large-scale campus-type employment uses.
The planning and zoning board’s approval is required for development unit plans within the overall community plan, Mesa Planner Tom Ellsworth said in a staff report.
“The general plan for the area is mixed-use community; the mixed-use community allows for that mixture of uses that create a complete community,” Mr. Ellsworth said at a study session prior to the meeting.
“Development Unit 1, the character designation is the northeast activity area, where Development Unit 2 acts as a transition area,” he said. “The character for DU1 was for higher-intensity mixture uses and the ability to do large employment campus-type uses; and DU2 was less-intense but still allow for that mixture of uses... What the development unit plans do is it sets the vision and character for the development of the actual property.”
Richard Dyer Managing Editor | East Valley @RHDyer
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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