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Council approves annexation, general-plan amendment and PAD rezoning for Verrado Way/Yuma area
Summary
The City Council unanimously approved annexation, a minor general plan amendment and a planned area development (PAD) rezoning covering roughly 167.8 acres at the southwest corner of Verrado Way and Yuma Road; the approval sets land uses, development standards and traffic and phasing requirements.
The City of Buckeye Council on April 15 unanimously approved three separate but related actions to annex and rezone about 167.8 acres near Verrado Way and Yuma Road and to change the land-use designation for roughly 45.9 acres from “neighborhood” to “business commerce.”
Mandy Woods, principal planner in Development Services, told the council the combined approvals create a master-planned PAD for a mix of residential, multifamily, neighborhood commercial and business-park uses. The PAD includes a 46-acre business-commerce portion intended to accommodate smaller-scale business park, light industrial and limited retail uses and restricts heavier industrial activities.
Under the PAD, Parcel F (the business-park parcel) will follow the city’s business-park standards with specific limits: cross-dock warehousing is prohibited and warehouse buildings are capped at 50,000 square feet absent a conditional use permit that could allow up to 200,000 square feet. The PAD also establishes density limits for multifamily parcels (8–25 dwelling units per acre) and separates development standards for attached and detached single-family products.
City staff said no attendees appeared at the neighborhood meeting and no public comments on the annexation were received before the hearings. Staff also noted that future site plans and subdivision plats must meet PAD standards, that a master traffic impact analysis will be required with the first site plan or preliminary plat, and that the developer will be responsible for half-street improvements. The PAD staff report includes a condition that prescribes a phasing schedule for roadway and half-street improvements so that infrastructure aligns with whichever development units build first.
Questions from Vice Mayor Eustace addressed traffic and bridge funding: Dr. Anissa Gerard, acting city traffic engineer, said the bridge over the canal is a fee-in-lieu situation in which the developer pays a quarter of the cost and surrounding properties cover the other quarters; Jim Shano, PMO director, said the intersection improvements at Yuma and Verrado Way are in the city’s capital improvement program and that the city holds fees-in-lieu for a portion of that work while coordinating with the developer on its share.
The council voted separately and unanimously to adopt the minor general plan amendment (Resolution No. 14-25) and to rezone the affected property to Planned Area Development (Ordinance No. 15-25). The annexation ordinance (Ordinance No. 12-25) was also approved unanimously. No amendments to the PAD were made at the meeting.
