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Council modifies rezoning at 21st Street and Tourney to R4A with stipulations after contested hearing
Summary
After a lengthy public hearing with mixed neighborhood testimony, the council denied the applicant's R5 rezoning and approved R4A with added stipulations including 40-foot setbacks, prohibited rooftop decks on north/east perimeters, mailed neighbor notice for modification requests, and developer-funded speed-hump petitions.
The Phoenix City Council held a public hearing on a rezoning request for the northwest corner of 21st Street and Tourney Avenue and voted to deny the applicant’s R5 proposal as filed and instead approve R4A with modified and additional stipulations.
Applicant representative Ashley Marsh described a 1.8-acre parcel (1.5 developable acres) currently containing 16 apartments and two single-family homes and presented a revised proposal that reduced the project from an initial 75-unit, four-story design to a 64-unit design and reduced building height to what was described as 38 feet along some frontages. The applicant said traffic analysis showed the project would add about 132 new daily trips and approximately 0.5% of total peak trips on the adjacent streets; staff and Planning Commission…
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