It took only 13 minutes Tuesday for the Buckeye Planning and Zoning Commission’s Tuesday to recommend approval of a re-zoning request.
The Commission unanimously recommended a re-zone of a request for a small segment of the Vista Bonita planned community. The re-zone request now moves on to the Buckeye City Council for an approval decision.
A 2.15-acre property that is a small county island that has had the Vista Bonita development designed around it. Kai Enterprises wants to rezone it to a more dense single-family designation while simultaneously going through the annexation process with Buckeye.
The property would meet all of Buckeye’s zoning requirements, with the exception of a variance from the 55-foot minimum lot widths, going with 50 instead.
Andrea Marquez, a senior planner for Buckeye Development Services, said the 50-foot lot widths are actually more than what most of the 264 lots in Vista Bonita will receive.
Nearly all of the land Vista Bonita will be built upon was annexed by Buckeye years ago. Like many properties, detailed plans were in the works when the recession of 2008-09 put a halt to much development in Arizona.
“The minimum width in the Vista Bonita plan is 45 feet,” a staff report states. “The final plat was approved in 2007, and even though the plat was never recorded, we are honoring that plat.”
The original Vista Bonita preliminary plat was approved by the city of Buckeye’s Planning and Development Board in November 2005.
The property has an existing farm residence of a larger, surrounding agricultural property located on it. The rezone and annexation would incorporate five lots into the community, all within the city of Buckeye. The gross density of Vista Bonita is 2.3 duplex units per acre.
The acres are east of the southeast corner of Apache and Broadway roads, near Marionneaux Elementary School.
