Log in

City Council

Scottsdale abandons easements between Shea, Cochise for residential cluster

Posted 12/2/19

The city of Scottsdale is abandoning about 41 feet of easement land on its 4.3-acre parcel between Shea Boulevard and Cochise Road, accommodating a new four-lot subdivision with a new cul-de-sac.

You must be a member to read this story.

Join our family of readers for as little as $5 per month and support local, unbiased journalism.


Already have an account? Log in to continue.

Current print subscribers can create a free account by clicking here

Otherwise, follow the link below to join.

To Our Valued Readers –

Visitors to our website will be limited to five stories per month unless they opt to subscribe. The five stories do not include our exclusive content written by our journalists.

For $6.99, less than 20 cents a day, digital subscribers will receive unlimited access to YourValley.net, including exclusive content from our newsroom and access to our Daily Independent e-edition.

Our commitment to balanced, fair reporting and local coverage provides insight and perspective not found anywhere else.

Your financial commitment will help to preserve the kind of honest journalism produced by our reporters and editors. We trust you agree that independent journalism is an essential component of our democracy. Please click here to subscribe.

Sincerely,
Charlene Bisson, Publisher, Independent Newsmedia

Please log in to continue

Log in
I am anchor
City Council

Scottsdale abandons easements between Shea, Cochise for residential cluster

Posted

The city of Scottsdale is abandoning about 41 feet of easement land on its 4.3-acre parcel between Shea Boulevard and Cochise Road, accommodating a new four-lot subdivision with a new cul-de-sac.

The Scottsdale City Council approved on consent the abandonment of a portion of an existing 33-foot general land office easement along the east and west property lines as well as eight feet of the same type of easement along the south. The approval came at the Nov. 25 meeting.

The property sits at 10425, 10473, 10521 and 10569 N. 131st St., and carries single-family residential environmentally sensitive lands zoning. Cochise Residential’s request was for reapproval since the previous abandonment approval had expired.

In 1938, the Federal Small Tract Act created general land office lots, which featured typically 33-foot roadways or public utility easements near the exterior boundaries. City staff say the municipality have typically viewed these patent roadway and utility easements as assured access at least until a local circulation plan comes forth.

When these lands come in for development, the city requires right-of-way dedications per city circulation plans. Scottsdale’s transportation plan establishes a street system to replace the grid pattern which the GLO easements create.

Any easements in excess of the requirements to the circulation plans, roadway standards and isn’t needed to ensure access to any other lot can be requested for abandonment.

City staff say the abandonments don’t restrict access to any properties along Shea Boulevard or Cochise Road. The abandonments also prevent any future access from the property to Shea Boulevard.

City policy states the easements are worth about $5,895. To compensate the abandonment, Cochise Residential has agreed to build an eight-foot sidewalk along Shea Boulevard, with an estimated value of $40,000.

The lot is vacant and features desert vegetation and has a desert wash in the southeast corner. Surrounding the lot are existing single-family homes.