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Jose Guzman, director of development services, said the city hired J2 Design to help define goals and standards after council directed staff to create requirements. Shane Hanneman of J2 Design said the firm audited parks provision practices in other Arizona municipalities and produced a checklist of required amenities based on park size bands commonly expected in local subdivisions. Hanneman said the draft identifies four guiding goals: satisfying community recreational needs and the parks master plan, ensuring long‑term maintainability for city ownership or management, meeting safety and ADA guidelines for playgrounds, and moderating costs so requirements are not an undue burden on developers.
Hanneman described typical park-size categories his team used (2–3 acres, 3–4 acres, 4–5 acres and 5–5.5 acres) and said the checklist provides a vendor catalog of site furnishings and playground options so developers have consistent, maintainable choices. He said the draft aims to keep the per‑acre cost for amenities reasonably consistent across park sizes and that, overall, the proposal sits below the statewide mean of public-sector offerings in the consultant’s audit.
Council members and a few speakers asked for clarity on maintenance budgets and affordability. A council member urged the consultants to consider communities with much smaller tax bases than large cities and to ensure the city can maintain any amenities the standards produce. Staff said the draft is a 47‑page document attached to the agenda and that the next steps include public hearings and stakeholder comment; staff said council could request changes before adoption.
No adoption vote occurred at the session; staff said they will proceed with the adoption process that includes public hearings and stakeholder outreach.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","Wednesday, July 30, 2025 - City of San Luis - Work Session","oneSentenceSummary","Consultants and staff presented a 47-page draft recreation and open-space standard that would require scaled amenities for small neighborhood parks, include vendor‑approved site furnishings and aim to balance safety, accessibility and long‑term maintenance costs; staff will hold public hearings before any adoption.","taxTitle","San Luis, Yuma County, Arizona","taxId",53256,"location","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":76,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":77,"_41":78,"_43":79,"_45":80,"_47":81,"_49":82,"_51":83,"_53":84,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":85,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":86,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6148478,"Council reviews draft subdivision regulations; staff recommends eliminating half‑street ambiguity and keeping polymer manholes",436,659000,1095000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5515308-e1c78d0a0282b8c13c08b47944a4fd2b&start=659&end=1095","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5515308-e1c78d0a0282b8c13c08b47944a4fd2b/thumbnail_659000.jpg","/articles/6148478/San-Luis/Yuma-County/Arizona/Council-reviews-draft-subdivision-regulations-staff-recommends-eliminating-halfstreet-ambiguity-and-keeping-polymer-manholes","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6148478-e98206af2f1d231f6b78851ede816876/orig.mp4?Expires=1771175379&Signature=I38s1~6gOR5uFeCSRIrOu9ISiEczXU~oc0VoO3R8z678HqnzwYFDX3Mv6ITbOqKvPoSK5SyzQosB4wg-jwM0Gq5HurCUyS5fOfOe7OBjFPhnHC3cWdAIqltckDG2j436TcQpX1nHjAmk0B5eSjmkqFzuih0eblT1id8Y9gP4Wmx07ScDJYYRGfe~km1hsI3L~KIG2taMEq5J80HtTAcNpToQP7YiNVrE7HWBhgCQD3jpklhVA0FQwLVTxCVo~EREdyWCyTBKu7f7GaZQmJaKXsEbdcUsJksgEcEouL68DtxWjgzp36toQFmHZzjwgKvL9HNfhNN4xrjSKWifOzlMMQ__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The City of San Luis presented a final draft of updated subdivision regulations intended to replace rules the city has used that were based on older county regulations. Assistant Director of Development Services Juan Leon Rubio said the rewrite aligns municipal standards with state statute and modern infrastructure needs and that the draft has been reviewed by legal counsel, stakeholders and staff.
Rubio explained the draft seeks to remove ambiguous language in Section 17.1015(f) on required perimeter road improvements and recommends simplifying the text to require that “streets adjacent to the properties to be subdivided shall be required to be developed. No half streets will be accepted.” He told the council removing the second sentence in the current draft would reduce interpretive confusion and that the draft also adds a formal modification process so developers can request deviations if conditions (for example, federal/state-owned adjacent land, canals, or steep topography) make full road improvements infeasible.
Developers and a representative of Von Verde Partners, Elizabeth Carpenter, urged the council to reconsider several elements of the draft. Carpenter said developers “have reservations” about minimum lot sizes, the increase in internal subdivision road widths (cited by staff as 52 feet within subdivisions versus the city’s historical 50 or Yuma’s 48), the half‑street requirement and the warranty/assurance timeframe. She asked whether the city could return to 5,000-square-foot lots to support affordability, asked that road widths be reconsidered because wider roads raise construction and long‑term maintenance costs, and asked council to reconsider requiring developers to build full opposite halves of perimeter roads when adjacent landowners may never develop or may be unable to pay their share.
Staff and public‑works representatives responded to questions about polymer manholes and warranty periods. A public‑works speaker explained polymer manholes have higher upfront costs but are corrosion resistant and carry long warranties; staff cited recent repairs that cost about $1.5 million to rehabilitate multiple manholes and said polymer products can reduce long‑term maintenance and replacement costs. On warranties and assurances, staff said the subdivision regulations currently require developers to post assurances equal to 100 percent of improvement costs with 10 percent withheld as a warranty; the city has required a two‑year warranty period and staff said that some municipalities use one year but the city has seen post‑first‑year issues and believes two years gives additional protection.
Rubio outlined the timeline staff has followed and the next steps: the draft was posted on the city website and circulated to stakeholders in early 2025, presented to the Planning & Zoning Commission and stakeholders in March and July, and staff planned a public hearing before the commission on Aug. 12 and a return to council on Sept. 10 for potential adoption; a 30‑day referendum period would follow if council approves. No formal vote was taken at the work session; council members asked questions and staff indicated changes could be made before adoption.
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Collections manager Elgar Esparza described the proposal at the work session and said the current fee schedule “was adopted in 2005 and has not been amended since then.” He told the council the recommended approach used an average annual inflation rate of 2.46 percent over the past 20 years and that staff proposes raising fees by roughly 2 percent per year compounded across that period. Esparza said the proposal would add a distinct cottage-food license and a mobile-vendor license, each proposed at $350, and introduce an application fee of $25, a building inspection fee of $25 and a fire inspection fee of $40.
Esparza explained the state’s cottage-food program (HB 2042) allows certain low-risk foods to be made and sold from home kitchens, requires state registration, a food-handler card and labeling, and does not require routine kitchen inspections by the state or county; he said the city’s application would require a copy of the state registration, a list of food products, a sample label, hours of operation and a food-handler card. He noted that under the state program applicants are liable for any foodborne illness and may be investigated by the state following complaints.
Council members asked about how many cottage-food operators exist locally; Esparza said “about 5” were registered with the state but added he believed more operate without state registration and that staff would need to reach out to inform them of the licensing process. On implementation timing he said, “If [the schedule] passes, we will have to do a notice of intent, then we will have to wait 60 days for that public hearing. And then after that public hearing, if passed, it will have to be 30 days after. So about 3 months.”
Council members also asked how often fees would be revisited; Esparza said staff recommends updating them every five years rather than waiting multiple decades.
The presentation included a breakdown of existing license counts staff said are common in San Luis — examples cited were 370 retail licenses, 22 liquor licenses and 21 mobile vendors — and showed projected revenue under the proposed schedule. Esparza compared the city’s current base fee of $100 to fees in nearby cities and said the proposed schedule would place San Luis slightly above Somerton when inspection and application fees are included.
No motion or vote occurred during the work session; staff said the next steps would include formal notice and public hearing(s) before any fee schedule is adopted.
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