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Prescott City board approves conditional use permit for hospital helipad with masonry wall and landscaping
Summary
At its Nov. 21 meeting, the Prescott City Board of Adjustment approved CUP 24‑004 allowing a non‑permanent helipad at a new hospital adjacent to State Route 69. Approval requires a masonry screening wall on the north and west property lines and additional landscaping along SR 69, to be completed before final building permits.
The Prescott City Board of Adjustment voted to approve a conditional use permit for a heli‑stop at a new hospital site adjacent to State Route 69 after two hours of staff presentations, developer testimony and public comment.
Tammy Duet, community planner, told the board the helipad is intended for short stopovers — ‘‘a stop where it comes and picks up patients or drops off patients and then flies off’’ — not a permanently stationed helicopter, and that FAA and ADOT reviewed the proposal. Duet said staff expanded public outreach to 1,000 feet (state law requires 300 feet) and proposed mitigation including perimeter screening and additional landscaping to reduce visual and external impacts.
Hospital representatives and air‑ambulance operators described the clinical and operational need. Bruce McVay, chief operating officer for Exceptional Healthcare, said comparable micro‑hospital sites average about…
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