An industrial building is planned on 2.4 acres east of Power Road on the north side of Ray Road in Mesa.
The Mesa Planning and Zoning Board recently voted unanimously in a consent agenda with other items to recommend that the Mesa City Council approve a site plan review and rezoning the property to light industrial with planned area development overlay and bonus intensity zone overlay. Absent from the meeting was board member Benjamin Ayers.
“The [bonus intensity zone] request is to allow a reduction in the landscape setback; that reduction would be adjacent to a triangular parcel ... and it kind of cuts in to the southern edge of the site,” Planner Jennifer Merrill said at a study session prior to the March 9 meeting. “That triangular parcel is owned by the airport and it’s a remnant parcel that was left over when Ray Road went through. Staff has been working with the applicant and the airport and unfortunately the triangular parcel isn’t something that can be sold to the applicant so they weren’t able to incorporate it into their site.”
Brian Moore of BMCA Architecture PC is the applicant. AEI Arizona Oz Fund LLC is the owner.
A speculative office warehouse building is planned with the main entrance facing 71st Avenue and Ray Road, Moore said in a written project narrative.
“The building and site will match the two buildings recently permitted and under construction on the site to the north of this one forming a holistic identity for the ownership and developer,” it states. “Like the other two, this building will be marketed primarily for warehouse storage where the parking we have provided will more than adequately meet the demand by future tenants. We have calculated the building at 25% office and the remainder warehouse storage.”
The seven-member Mesa Planning and Zoning Board conducts hearings and makes recommendations to council on requests for changes in zoning and on required site plans. It also considers and recommends changes in the city’s long-range plans and in the municipal code concerning planning and zoning matters. Members are appointed for staggered terms of three years, according to the city’s website.
Richard Dyer Managing Editor | East Valley @RHDyer
Meet Richard Richard Dyer has worked at Independent Newsmedia Inc. USA since 1987, starting his career in Apache Junction as a copy editor and being promoted over the years to work as the editor of the Mesa Independent, news services editor for the East Valley office in Apache Junction, managing editor for the East Valley office, news services editor for the East Valley office and eventually also for the newspapers at INI’s then-Chandler office, managing editor again and as a news editor covering Apache Junction/Gold Canyon and Queen Creek. He helped start the Florence Independent while the news editor covering Apache Junction and Mesa news. In January 2023, he became associate managing editor for the East Valley newspapers and in August 2023 became managing editor for the East Valley newspapers of Chandler/Tempe, Gilbert, Queen Creek, Florence, Mesa and Apache Junction/Gold Canyon, while also reporting on Mesa and Apache Junction/Gold Canyon.
Community: Since 2009, he has worked as a volunteer to design The Blue Guitar Magazine, Blue Guitar Jr. magazine and Unstrung magazine, which are projects of The Arizona Consortium for the Arts; and since 2014, has been overseeing the art submissions.
Education: University of Arizona with a master of arts in journalism and a bachelor of science in agricultural communication. Also continuing education at Mesa Community College in welding in a metal art sculpture class.
Random fact: Saw his first tornado on May 31, 2010, which was classified as an EF-2, as part of a stormchasing tour group.
Hobbies: He is an artist of welded-steel sculptures, selling his artwork at juried and non-juried art shows.
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