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Mesa staff propose rewritten Employment Opportunity zoning to support ASU innovation projects
Summary
City planning staff briefed council on replacing Chapter 14 of the zoning ordinance and amending Section 1186.1A to broaden the Employment Opportunity (EO) district for large employment campuses and mixed-use projects, including partnerships with political subdivisions such as Arizona State University.
Rachel Phillips, Assistant Planning Director, told the Mesa City Council on Sept. 4 that staff proposes to repeal and replace Chapter 14 of the zoning ordinance and to amend Section 1186.1A, the use-type classification, to increase flexibility in the Employment Opportunity (EO) district.
"This item on the agenda is an amendment to the Employment Opportunity District, which is chapter 14 of the zoning ordinance," Phillips said. She said the EO district has been used only twice in Mesa to date and that the proposed rewrite would clean up text, adjust place-type references, remove minimum-area barriers for expanding existing EO…
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