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Cochise supervisors approve rezoning for port-of-entry logistics area, strike 100-foot buffer requirement
Summary
The Cochise County Board of Supervisors approved a request to change land-use and rezone about 369 acres west of Douglas to support warehousing and logistics for a proposed port of entry, but removed a planning commission condition that would have required a 100-foot landscape buffer adjacent to existing residences.
The Cochise County Board of Supervisors voted June 3 to approve a comprehensive-plan amendment and zoning change to convert about 369 acres roughly 2.5 miles west of Douglas from rural to developing and to rezone two parcels (tax parcels 408-34-004A and 408-34-004D) from RU-4 (one dwelling per 4 acres) to LI (Light Industry). The board adopted Resolution 25-12 (docket CPA25-02 and RZ25-04) as amended, keeping right-of-way dedications and a required wildlife survey but striking a Planning & Zoning Commission recommendation for a 100-foot landscape buffer along property lines shared with established residences.
The matter proceeded as a public hearing. Matthew Taylor, Cochise County Development Services, described the request as intended to “facilitate the rezone to industrial” in anticipation of a new commercial port of entry, and said the subject area is surrounded in part by parcels already designated developing under the 2013 comprehensive plan. Taylor said staff had originally recommended a 20-foot landscape buffer but that the…
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