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Mesa Planning and Zoning Board unanimously approves consent agenda; East Market item continued to May 28
Summary
The Mesa Planning and Zoning Board enacted its consent agenda by a single, unanimous motion May 14, approving minutes and a Polaris Academy site modification with conditions and continuing the East Market Phase 1 site plan review to the May 28 meeting.
The Mesa Planning and Zoning Board unanimously approved its consent agenda at a public hearing on May 14, 2025, enacting multiple routine items on one motion and continuing one application to a later meeting.
The vote matters because the consent agenda included approvals and schedule decisions for land-use items that affect pending development reviews in Mesa, including a site-plan review and a school expansion request. Board action finalized procedural items and set the next steps for applications that were not discussed individually.
Chair Ayers called the roll and confirmed a quorum. Staff member Genesee read the consent agenda into the record. The board approved the consent agenda on a single motion; Vice Chair Pitcher and the other board members voted in favor. The board’s action included:
- Approval of minutes from the April 23, 2025, Planning and Zoning Board meeting (Item 2/2a).
- East Market, Phase 1 (Case ZON-2500174): a site-plan review for a proposed commercial development on about 6.66 acres located at the northeast corner of South Ellsworth Road and East Ray Road. Staff recommended continuing this item; the board continued the matter to the May 28, 2025, Planning and Zoning Board meeting.
- Polaris Academy (Case Z24-01074): requests affecting approximately 1.8 acres at the southwest corner of East Hampton Avenue and South Clearview Avenue, including a modification related to a council use permit (CUP), a rezone of about 0.8 acres from light industrial with the planned area development overlay to LAPAD with a bonus intensity zone overlay, a major site-plan modification for roughly 1.9 acres, and removal of conditions 1, 7, 8, 10 and 11 of Ordinance No. 2732 to allow expansion of a private school. Staff recommended approval with conditions, and the board approved the item on the consent agenda with those conditions.
Board members present who participated in the unanimous vote were Chair Ayers, Vice Chair Pitcher, Board Member Peterson, Board Member Montess, Board Member Carpenter and Board Member Farnsworth. There was no substantive public discussion on these items during the hearing; items on the consent agenda were not discussed individually as read into the record.
The East Market Phase 1 application will return to the board at the May 28, 2025 meeting for further consideration; other approved items will proceed according to the conditions specified by staff and the board’s recorded approvals.
