Queen Creek council approves site plan for new credit union
Town of Queen Creek
The town’s first America First Credit Union will be built near the southwest corner of Signal Butte and Queen Creek roads within the Marketplace at Hudson Station.
The Queen Creek Town Council has approved a conditional use permit and site plan for America First Credit Union’s first location in town.
The almost 3,000-square-foot credit union will be built near the southwest corner of Signal Butte and Queen Creek roads within the Marketplace at Hudson Station. It will have four drive-thru tellers.
The council approved the conditional use permit and the site plan at its Wednesday meeting on a vote of 6-0. Council Member Travis Padilla did not attend the meeting.
A conditional use permit will allow for three interactive virtual teller machines and one automated teller machine. The virtual tellers allow customers to interact virtually with a bank teller to make the same transactions as they would in a typical bank drive-thru. The virtual tellers will have the same operating hours as the bank. The one ATM machine will operate on a 24/7 basis.
“Noise generated from the transactions of the IVTs, ATM and queued vehicles are not anticipated to be offensive or impactful to the surrounding area,” a staff report stated. “Staff has evaluated the provided traffic study and determined that the drive-thru facilities are adequately designed to accommodate the proposed drive-thru teller machines.”
The credit union will provide 26 parking spaces where 15 are required.
The Queen Creek Planning & Zoning Commission recommended approval of the conditional use permit and the site plan at its Aug. 14 meeting.
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