Council approves Ventana Ranch 2 general plan amendment and PAD rezoning with limits on building size

The Buckeye City Council approved a minor amendment to the Imagine Buckeye general plan and a planned area development rezoning for the Ventana Ranch 2 site at the northeast corner of Southern Avenue and Watson Road, voting to allow business-park and commercial uses on about 43.87 acres while attaching limits on building scale and certain logistics uses.

The zoning and plan changes matter because they reshape a transition zone between an existing large distribution facility to the south and single-family neighborhoods to the north and east. Council approved the general plan amendment (item 5C) and the rezoning to PAD (item 5D) after staff and the applicant agreed to conditions intended to reduce industrial impacts on nearby homes.

Ken Galica, a city planning staff member, told the council the GPA would change roughly 43.87 acres from “neighborhood” to “business commerce,” enabling smaller-scale business park and commercial uses rather than heavy industrial development. Galica said…