Public hearing held on half-acre annexation at 80th and Myrtle; resident concerned about through-traffic, developer says no connection planned
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Staff presented a public hearing on AN-270, a half-acre annexation at the southeast corner of 80th Avenue and Myrtle Avenue. A nearby resident asked whether Myrtle would be opened as a through street; a developer representative said the design will not connect Myrtle through to the north.
The Glendale City Council held a public hearing on Aug. 26 for annexation AN-270, a request to annex about one-half acre at the southeast corner of 80th Avenue and Myrtle Avenue. The annexation is a public-hearing-only item and required no council vote at the meeting. Senior planner Sydney Tirella presented the staff report, saying the site is currently county-zoned R-5 for multiple residences and the applicant proposes to apply city R-4 multifamily zoning if annexation is approved. The parcel is located about three miles west of City Hall and would be accessed off Glendale Avenue via 80th Avenue, Tirella said. During the public-hearing period, resident Karen Edwards asked whether the planned development would allow Myrtle Avenue to become a through street connecting to 70 Ninth Lane. Holly Redding of Tiffany & Bosco (representing the developer on the record) responded that Myrtle will not be a connection street and that nothing will connect through to the north, and the mayor asked Ms. Redding and Ms. Edwards to complete a speaker card for the record. No formal council action was taken because the item was on the public-hearing calendar; staff noted that annexation proponents may pursue simultaneous zoning applications if annexation proceeds. Questions from council during the presentation included clarification of nearby land uses (mobile-home parks south and east, a single-family subdivision to the north) and the site’s planned access route.
