Planning commission recommends rezoning Estrella 'Community 14' to new PAD, caps residential at 6,034 units

The Goodyear Planning and Zoning Commission on Sept. 10 recommended that city council approve a rezoning ordinance to establish the Estrella 14 Planned Area Development (PAD) for a roughly 1,505-acre portion of the larger Australia community known as Community 14. Staff and the applicant described the proposal as a reformatting of an older PAD that reduces overall residential entitlement and provides layered land-use groups to concentrate higher-intensity uses near the intersection of Estrella Parkway and Willis Road.

Principal planner Anne Dolmage described the PAD as a layered system of land-use groups (LUGs) that orient higher-density multifamily and mixed use to a core at Estrella Parkway and Willis Road, while allowing single-family and open space and civic uses to locate elsewhere within the PAD. Dolmage said the PAD would allow up to 6,034…