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Commission recommends against Grand Island Estates land-use and zoning changes after residents and developers clash
Summary
The Planning and Zoning Commission on Jan. 15 recommended denial of a general-plan amendment and a companion rezoning affecting 11.4 acres of Grand Island Estates after extended public testimony and disagreement over notice, density and the effect on a 1990s development agreement.
The Lake Havasu Planning and Zoning Commission on Jan. 15 recommended denial of two related requests affecting parts of Grand Island Estates on the western end of the island: a minor general-plan amendment (Land Use Action ID 202251) to change an 11.4-acre site’s future land-use designation from “resort related” to “resort related island,” and a companion rezoning (ID 202250) to remove parcels from the Grand Island Estates planned development and rezone them from Mixed Use Neighborhood PD (MUN PD) to Mixed Use General (MUG).
Planning staff said the proposal would shift the general-plan category from a primarily commercial “resort related” designation to a designation that allows medium- to higher-density resort and residential uses, including condominiums and timeshares. Staff also noted the site is part of a larger, originally approved 106-acre Grand Island Estates development that included parcel-specific uses in the 1994 approval and a 2005 amendment.
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