The Paradise Valley Planning Commission has approved a Cheney Estates homeowner’s request to modify setback requirements to replace a pool, spa and water feature.
At its Sept. 3 meeting, …
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Planning approves modifications for Cheney Estates homeowner
(Town of Paradise Valley)
The Paradise Valley Planning Commission approved a minor special use permit amendment to allow the owners of this home in the Cheney Estates to modify its rear setback in order to build a new pool, spa and water feature.
The Paradise Valley Planning Commission has approved a Cheney Estates homeowner’s request to modify setback requirements to replace a pool, spa and water feature.
At its Sept. 3 meeting, the commission approved Thomas Rettler’s request for a minor special use permit amendment by a 4-2 vote, with Commissioners Robert Brown and Pamela Georgelos voting no.
The Cheney Estates special use permit requires all structures to be set back 35 feet from the rear property line. The existing pool and spa are set back about 20 feet from the rear/south property line and the existing water feature is set back about 10 feet from the rear/south property line, according to a staff report.
Rettler was requesting an amendment to the special use permit to modify the rear setback to 7 feet for the pool, 9 feet, 6 inches for the spa, and 5 feet for the water feature wall for his home at 7133 E. Paradise Canyon Road.
Although the request further eats away at the rear setback, town staff pointed out that the property is located near the subdivision entrance and adjoins two exterior landscape tracts.
“The proposed improvements should have limited to no impact on the neighboring properties since they are located behind an existing 6-foot-tall fence wall, adjoin a 40-foot-wide landscape track to the west and have a buffer of a 30-foot-wide landscape tract and 73-foot-wide right-of-way (Cheney Drive) to the south of the property,” the staff report stated.
We invite our readers to submit their civil comments, pro or con, on this issue. Email AZOpinions@iniusa.org. Janet Perez can be reached at jperez@iniusa.org.