The seven-member board conducts hearings and makes recommendations to the Mesa City Council on requests for changes in zoning and on required site plans. The board also considers and recommends changes in the city’s long-range plans and in the municipal code concerning planning and zoning matters, according to the city’s website.
Car wash development
The SuperStar Car Wash is planned for 1 acre on the west side of the 4200 block of South Signal Butte Road. Paul Devers of Cawley Architects Inc. is the site plan applicant. Evergreen-Point 22 and Signal Butte LLC is the owner.
“An express wash is basically a self-service operation with automated pay stations. Customers have the option to ride in the vehicle during the wash process. Exterior drying and interior vacuuming is typically done by the customer,” Mr. Devers wrote in a project narrative.
During peak times, the facility can be operated with two to three people. The operational hours will be 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., he said.
The wash tunnel exit of the 4,076-square-foot facility will be on the east elevation of the building/tunnel facing Signal Butte Road to the east. Proposed outdoor vacuums will be approximately 290 feet from the perimeter wall of the residential subdivision to the east — across Signal Butte Road, City Planner Wahid Alam said in a memo to the planning and zoning board.
Emails have been received from surrounding neighbors expressing concerns with the proposed property use including the potential noise being incompatible with the surrounding area, he said.
The Eastmark Design Review Committee approved the architecture and landscape design, Mr. Alam said at the Dec. 16 board meeting.
“Our findings are that the proposal complies with the 2040 Mesa general plan, it complies with the Eastmark community plan and development unit plan 5/6 south, and it also meets the Mesa zoning ordinance and the community plan section of the site-plan review. Staff recommends approval with conditions,” Mr. Alam said at the meeting.
Two comment cards were received in opposition to the development. A Mesa staff member said one individual asked that her opinion not be read into the record, and the other said Mesa has plenty of car washes, storage facilities and fast-food restaurants.
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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