There are several items on Tuesday’s meeting agenda for the Buckeye Planning and Zoning Commission.
One involves the latest phase for one of the city’s largest, best-known developments.
The 53-lot second phase of the Regent Hills residential subdivision is up for a preliminary plat approval at Tuesday’s meeting, set for 6 p.m. in the Council Chambers, 530 E. Monroe Ave., downtown Buckeye.
The phase is situated on a north-south strip that runs along the western edge of Hole No. 15 of the Verrado Golf Club course. The 25-acre phase is near where the pavement currently ends on Lost Creek Road.
The property has Bureau of Land Management acreage to the west. Regent Hills Units 3 and 4 are to the north, with the golf course and, eventually, more homes and Verrado Way to the east.
The preliminary plat would create several private tracts to be used for open space and landscape. The site will be developed in one phase and will be a gated community.
The streets inside the community will be 32 feet wide and won’t have any sidewalks, city plans state.
The property has two gated access points onto Lost Creek Drive. Engineering plans and map of dedication for Lost Creek Drive are currently being prepared, a staff report states.
The gated community and its streets will be private, maintained by the homeonwners association.
The final buildout of all the Verrado districts calls for more than 8,800 homes.
Also on Tuesday’s agenda is a possible recommendation of rezoning for a phase of the Encanto development along Jackrabbit Trail. The property was the subject of a lengthy annexation hearing at last week’s Buckeye City Council meeting.
The agenda also includes possible approval of a comprehensive sign plan for Jackrabbit Ranch Marketplace. That’s a commercial center under construction on the southeast corner of Indian School Road and Jackrabbit Trail.
There aren’t usually four complex items on the commission’s agenda, but Tuesday’s meeting will be an exception. The board will hear about a proposed Development Code amendment meant to help provide economic opportunities, streamline review and approval procedures and provide aviation-specific development standards within the Airport Overlay District.
The board is also charged with continuing to provide an aesthetically pleasing frontage along Palo Verde Road, near the airport.
The commission’s busy Tuesday also includes a 4 p.m. workshop on food truck standards and working updates. The board held a similar workshop last fall; senior planner Randy Proch is set to provide some updates Tuesday.
Jason W. Brooks is a News editor for the Daily Independent and the Chandler Independent.
He covers the Chandler area for both yourvalley.net and the monthly print edition while writing for and assisting in the production of the Daily Independent.
Brooks is a well-traveled journalist who has documented life in small American communities in nearly all U.S. time zones.
Born in Washington, D.C. and raised there and in suburban Los Angeles, he has covered community news in California, New Mexico, Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska and northern Arizona.
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