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Planners outline Buckeye Airport area plan timeline, flag noise and land‑use priorities
Summary
Planning staff and consultants presented a draft scope and schedule for the Buckeye Airport Specific Area Plan (ASAP), describing a broad study area, community outreach (including a mobile VR immersion lab) and next steps; commissioners raised safety and noise concerns and asked about state and county land restrictions.
Mandy Woods, principal planner with Development Services, opened a Planning & Zoning Commission workshop to introduce the Buckeye Airport Specific Area Plan (ASAP), saying the project team will ‘‘explain what the ASAP is and why we’re doing it’’ and solicit commission input.
Consultant Terry, who led the presentation, told commissioners the ASAP will plan the land uses surrounding the airport rather than activity inside the fence and called it a “mini general plan” that can include design standards. "There's gonna be an expansion of that airport. That was approved by council on April 21," Terry said, and the ASAP must account for the larger noise contours that expansion could create.
Why it matters: the commission was shown maps and analyses that rely on overlapping studies — an airport master plan, utility and transportation plans, market analysis and the city’s 2018 general plan — and staff emphasized that the…
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