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Planning commission recommends Hilltop Church rezone with limits on future building heights
Summary
The Planning and Zoning Commission recommended rezoning Hilltop Church property to an R1 PD and approved a height exception allowing Building A to reach 30 feet from the established maximum grade while limiting future buildings B, C and D to 15 feet from their pad elevations.
The Lake Havasu City Planning and Zoning Commission on Aug. 7 recommended approval of a planned-development (PD) rezoning for Hilltop Church that would allow a 30-foot building height for the immediate expansion (Building A) and place 15-foot height limits on three future building pads unless those pads are later designated with specific pad elevations.
Staff told the commission the church property sits on about 6.1 acres east of McCulloch Boulevard and has varied topography, with roughly a 33-foot drop from the highest to the lowest points on the site. Because many older church sites lack a recorded maximum grade, staff said it established a maximum grade of elevation 115.5 feet for the property and explained how building heights translate from that benchmark. Under the applicant’s request, a 30-foot structure above that grade would reach about elevation 1185 (staff gave the vertical translation during the presentation).
Staff recommended…
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