HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - Minutes - City Council - Meeting Date: 5/30/1989MINUTES OF THE WORKSHOP SESSION OF THECITYCOUNCILOFTHECITYOFGLENDALE, MARICOPA COUNTY, ARIZONA HELD TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1989 AT 3:05 P.M. Mayor Renner called the Workshop Session of the GlendaleCityCounciltoorderintheWorkshopRoom, B-3, in theGlendaleCouncilChambers. Council members present were: Bellah, Falbo, Huffman, Hugh, McAllister, and Tolby. MembersAbsent: None. Also present were Martin Vanacour, City Manager; GordonL. Pedrow, Assistant City Manager; Peter Van Haren, CityAttorneyandLindaGinn, Deputy City Clerk. WORKSHOP SESSION1. REGIONAL CENTER NEIGBHORHOOD ISSUES
City Manager Vanacour stated that the City has been
working with Westcor for several years to develop a regional
shopping mall at 83rd Avenue and Bell Road. The City's
project team has recently expanded the public participation
efforts by producing a monthly neighborhood newsletter and
holding a neighborhood open house on Saturday, May 13. At
this open house, staff had a series of displays showing the
draft project plans.
Jerry Swanson, Deputy City Manager, Community
Development, introduced Terri Newton, who did the graphics of
the draft plan for the meetings.
Gary Fulk, Development Services Manager, detailed the
graphics for Council and explained some of the traffic
patterns encountered within the area. He said they would use
frontage roads for pedestrian circulation where feasible with
equestrian trails instead of sidewalks because the citizens
in the area did not want sidewalks. He also stated they
would employ a park, at one location, as a buffer between
residential and commercial development in the area.
He further detailed the Bell Road section by stating it
would be a four lane street in both directions, with a
variable median from 24 to 50 feet wide and 10 feet of
right-of-way on either side and additional landscape easement
for a total right-of-way of 172 feet. He stated this would
run from 75th Avenue to the Outer Loop freeway.
He outlined the timetable for the plan by stating they
would revise the plan in June, would present it to the
neighborhoods, Westcor and surrounding property owners and
then would take it before the Planning and Zoning Commission
for hearing in July and then to the Council in late August.
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Bob Page, president of the Hidden Manor Homeowners' Association, stated they concurred with what was presented bystafftodayandcomplimentedstaffforthefinecooperationtheyhadreceived. Mayor Renner, on behalf of the Council, complimentedstaffonthefineworktheyhaddoneontheprojectandsaidtheylookedforwardtoseeingwhathappensatthePlanningandZoningCommission. This item will be placed on a future workshop agenda forfurtherreview. 2. INTERGOVERNMENTAL REPORTMarionPorch, the Intergovernmental Liaison was presentandbriefedtheCityCouncilonlegislativeissues.
This item is for information only.
COUNCIL COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS
None.
ADJOURNMENT
There being no further items, the meeting adjourned at
4:15 p.m.
Deputy City Clerk
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