Native Health is west of Country Club Drive on the south side of Southern Avenue in Mesa.

City of Mesa

A medical office west of Country Club Drive on the south side of Southern Avenue is to combine two buildings into one as part of a permit to be discussed Wednesday by the Mesa Board of Adjustment.

The board meets at 5 p.m. for a study session and 5:30 p.m. for a meeting in the lower council chambers, 57 E. First St.

The applicant is requesting a substantial conformance improvement permit to allow for deviations from certain development standards for the medical office in the limited commercial zoning district.

The project involves combining two buildings into one larger building to allow the existing medical office to expand. Its also allows the reconfiguring of a parking lot and providing additional landscaping to bring the site into substantial conformance, Staff Planner Chloe Durfee Daniel said in a written staff report.

The landscape plan indicates a variety of trees, shrubs and ground cover planted within the landscape yards along Extension Road, Southern Avenue and Cherry. Internal to the site, a variety of trees, shrubs and ground cover are planted in the parking lot islands and foundation base areas.

Anthony Dobbs of JSRA is the applicant. Native Health is the owner.

The office buildings and site are occupied for business and business-medical office uses. The complex is five buildings separated by breezeways under a shared roof, according to a written project narrative.

“Native Health already occupies Unit E (8,400 square feet) as a medical office clinic and intends to convert Unit D to added clinic space, while infilling the connection across the breezeway. The converted spaces will add approximately 7,881 square feet of existing vacant general business office and the breezeway infill to an existing 8,400-square-foot clinic,” it states. “Exterior modifications will be limited to infill walls at the north and south of the breezeway, new exit doors and new windows in the expansion.”

The seven-member board conducts public meetings to hear and decide requests for variances, special-use permits and interpretations of the city of Mesa zoning ordinance and sign code. Members are appointed for staggered terms of three years, according to the city’s website.