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Carefree council approves replat for Stage Creek Estates to adjust drainage easement
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Summary
The Carefree Town Council unanimously approved Resolution 2025-18, a replat of the final plat for Stage Creek Estates that reconfigures drainage easements to match updated FEMA mapping and to accommodate required stormwater retention; the approval preserves the original lot count and lot sizes.
The Carefree Town Council unanimously approved Resolution 2025-18 on a voice vote to replat Stage Creek Estates, a previously entitled residential subdivision south of Skye Ranch and north of Stagecoach Pass.
Staff planner CJ said the applicant proposes to reconfigure the drainage easement dedicated in the subdivision's 2007 final plat so the easement better covers the FEMA-remapped floodplain and the detention structures needed to retain a 100-year storm as required by county flood-control regulations. CJ told the council this is principally a bookkeeping and engineering adjustment and that the replat does not change lot lines, lot sizes or the number of lots previously approved in 2007.
Scott Pfeiffer of Sonora West Development, the applicant, told the council he purchased the property last year and expects to build 31 semi-custom desert-contemporary homes. "The lots are exactly the same. We're excited to build the 31 houses," Pfeiffer said. He said the team plans to submit vertical plans within one to two months and that the infrastructure improvement plans will be finalized after council action.
Council members asked technical and design questions focused on landscape continuity along Cave Creek Road, lot-by-lot wall standards and the look of retention basins. CJ and Pfeiffer said landscape plans incorporate native Sonoran-Desert planting, retained on-site vegetation will be reused where possible, and that individual lot improvements (including walls) will be reviewed against standard town setbacks and lot-coverage limits during the administrative building-permit process.
The council approved the resolution following a brief public presentation by the applicant and staff. A staff memo attached to the item identified the related building-permit application as 24-0189 and noted the subdivision has been fully entitled since 2007. No amendments to lot counts or lot dimensions were proposed.
The action allows the applicant to finalize infrastructure plans and pursue administrative building permits; staff said disapproval would force the applicant to revert infrastructure plans to the 2007 configuration and could produce a less-comprehensive drainage solution.
Outcome: Resolution 2025-18 approved (unanimous voice vote).
