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Planning commission approves utility‑site buffer rules, disclosure requirements for new subdivisions
Summary
Commissioners adopted a staff‑initiated text amendment that will require 8‑foot walls, a 50‑foot landscape buffer and homeowner disclosures for future utility well sites adjacent to residential development; nonresidential buffers will be at least 20 feet.
Eric Swanson, planning manager for the Town of Queen Creek, presented a staff‑initiated text amendment that the commission approved requiring larger buffers and disclosure language for future utility well and pump sites that will be located near residential development.
Swanson said the town’s rapid growth has placed new residential construction closer to utility well sites and that wells can generate noise and vibration. To reduce future complaints, staff recommended standards for utility sites adjacent to planned residential development including an 8‑foot perimeter wall, a 50‑foot landscape buffer with plantings sufficient to assist with noise attenuation and the requirement…
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