Sarah Clark, principal planner with the Town of Queen Creek Development Services Department, presented a request to rezone a Maricopa County island property from RU-43 to C-1 with a PAD overlay and to approve a four-building medical/general office site plan totaling about 30,644 square feet following annexation into the town. Clark told commissioners the project provides 141 parking stalls where 127 are required and meets landscaping requirements by dedicating about 32% of the site to planting. "This is a request by the applicant to rezone the subject site following successful annexation... and a request for site plan approval for a new medical/general office development amounting to about 30,000 square feet in total," Clark said during her presentation.

Clark described buffers and design features intended to reduce impacts on nearby residences, including 30-foot and 40-foot landscape buffers to the west and south, a double row of trees, a six-foot wall along the western boundary, and parking-lot lighting that will be dimmed 50% after 10 p.m. She also noted the revision staff proposed to condition 4 to clarify where a required water line would be placed and asked that any approval include the revised condition.

Applicant representative Sean Lake said the locally based developers and their tenant strategy make the site an appropriate place for medical office uses on two arterial streets. "It's a great project, medical office," Lake said, urging commissioners to support the application and noting the applicant exceeded parking and landscaping requirements.

No members of the public signed up to speak during the hearing on this item. The commission moved and voted to recommend approval of P24-0101 and P24-0103 with the staff-revised condition 4. The commission’s recommendation advances the rezone and site plan to the town council for final action at an upcoming meeting, where the concurrent annexation will also be considered.