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Planning - Zoning Ordinance Rewrite

The City of Mesa is updating its Zoning Ordinance, based on the Mesa 2025 General Plan adopted by both the City Council and Mesa voters in 2002. The intent of the project is to ensure that zoning regulations are reasonably consistent with the General Plan goals and objectives, as well as state and federal laws. In addition, the update is intended to help encourage the types of development desired by the City Council and Mesa residents.

Required by State law, a General Plan is a document that provides policy direction for land use, transportation, and housing, water, growth, public services and public facilities. Updating the Zoning Ordinance is often “the natural next step” after a General Plan is adopted because it is a key component for implementing a General Plan. Zoning ordinances establish the detailed rules for what and where things can be built, and how the project will be reviewed before being constructed. Many of the goals and objectives listed in the City’s General Plan are translated by way of the Zoning Ordinance into specific numbers and standards that, in turn, regulate land development.

The Update process is intended to be open to the public, and is designed to allow several access points where the public can be involved, either through direct comments about the existing zoning ordinance requirements, or existing zoning processes, or by commenting on the reports and recommendations for any proposed changes. Your comments are wanted, as they are considered helpful in developing any proposed changes that better reflect the neighborhood visions for all of the various communities that make up Mesa.

1)      “Reminder: The active public comment period will close on July 5.”

Calendar of Events

Upcoming Events 2010

Public Meetings by District
Each workshop is scheduled to start at 6:30 p.m. and will begin with a brief overview of the major items being proposed.

Tuesday, June 1 - Council District 6
Police Superstition District Community room
2430 S. Ellsworth

Thursday, June 10 - Council District 5
Fire Station 216 Community Room
7966 E. McDowell Road

Monday, June 14 - Council District 2
Fire Station 206 Community Room
815 N. Lindsay Road

Tuesday, June 15 - Council District 1
Fire Station 218 Community Room
845 N. Alma School Road

Tuesday, June 29 - Council District 4
Fire Station 202 Community Room
830 S. Stapley Drive

Wednesday, June 30 - Council District 3
Dobson Ranch Association - La Casita Facility
2719 S. Reyes (north of Guadalupe, west of Alma School)

The public review draft of the update of the Mesa Zoning Ordinance will include several open house discussions over the next several weeks looking at various aspects of the draft.  The meetings will be held in the lower level council chambers, 57 E. 1st St., from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.  The dates are:

Monday, April 12– Single Residence and the new RSL district

Thursday, April 22 – Multiple Residence, and Landscaping Requirements for non-single residence projects

Tuesday, April 27 – Commercial - Part 1:  Retail and Office

Tuesday, May 4 – Commercial - Part 2:  Transit, Mixed Use and Urban; and Parking Requirements for non-single residence projects

Thursday, May 13 - Employment/Industrial Land uses; and Telecommunications Facilities

Thursday, May 20 - Downtown and Infill

Tuesday, May 25 - Planned Area Developments and Planned Community Districts

The public review draft will also be presented at the regular meetings of the Design Review Board May 5 and June 2.  Various aspects of it will also be discussed by the Planning and Zoning Board. 

The schedule is for Employment Districts to be discussed at the April 21 meeting; while Telecommunications, Landscaping and Parking will be discussed at the May 19 meeting. 

Previous presentations to the Planning and Zoning Board on February 17 and March 24 included Residential Uses and Commercial Uses. These previous presentations are available as video streams from MesaChannel11.com

A special P&Z Board meeting to discuss and hear comment on the zoning code update is scheduled June 9, while another hearing about the draft is scheduled at the regular June 16 meeting.

Public Workshop Presentations

Previous Events

  • A joint meeting of the P&Z Board, the Design Review Board and the Downtown Development Committee will be held on March 13, 2008, between 4 and 7pm in the Lower Level of the City Council Chambers, 57 E 1st Street.

  • Planning & Zoning Board, November 29, 2007 at 4:00 PM

  • City Council Study Session, December 6, 2007 at 7:30 AM

  • Housing Advisory Board, December 6, 2007 at 6:00 PM

  • Design Review Board, December 6, 2007 at 5:00 PM (last item in the agenda)

  • Historic Preservation Committee, December 13, 2007

  • Downtown Development Committee, December 20, 2007 at 7:30 AM

  • Economic Development Advisory Board (pending)

  • Development Advisory Forum, January 2008

  • Joint meeting of the Planning and Zoning Board and the Downtown Development Committee
    March 28, 2007

Reports
Public Review Draft - April 6, 2010

Full Document (PDF, 3.03 MB)

Article 1: Introductory Provisions

  • Chapter 1 Introductory Provisions
     

  • Chapter 2 Rules for the Construction of Language and Interpretation
     

  • Chapter 3 Designation of Zoning Districts, Zoning Map, and Boundaries

Article 2: Base Zones

Article 3: Overlay Zones

Article 4: Development Regulations

Article 5: Sign Regulations (Reserved)

Article 6: Form-Based Development Regulations (Reserved)

Article 7: Administration

Article 8: General Terms

For more information or for meeting location, please contact the Planning Division at (480) 644-2385 or send an E-mail. Note: these files require Adobe Acrobat Reader.