Choice Hotels brand approved for Mesa site

A site plan for a Woodspring Suites hotel was approved recently by the Mesa Planning and Zoning Board.

It was approved unanimously as part of a consent agenda at a meeting Dec. 16.

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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.

A four-story Woodspring Suites hotel with 122 rooms and more than 130 parking spaces is planned on 5 acres in a business park on the north side of the 300 to 400 blocks of East Baseline Road and east side of the 1800 to 2000 blocks of South Mesa Drive. Jack Gilmore of Gilmore Planning and Landscape Architecture is the applicant for a site plan. Sundown Equipment LLC is the owner.

Woodspring Suites is an extended-stay brand by Choice Hotels, according to a project narrative by Gilmore Planning and Landscape Architecture.

“Most guests in this hotel will be business travelers on temporary work assignments, or people managing transition such as transplant from other cities relocating to this regional area and shopping for a new house,” it states.

Light industrial zoning is one of the listed primary zoning districts within the business park. The hotel’s proposed development will provide temporary accommodation in support of the business activities in the area and within the industrial park, City Planner Ryan McCann said in a memo to the planning and zoning board.