By Richard Dyer | Apache Junction/Gold Canyon Independent
A city-initiated corrective rezoning to reduce lot sizes was recently approved for 22 parcels between Ironwood and Gold drives and Roundup and Greasewood streets.
The Apache Junction City Council approved changing 10 acres from medium density, single-family detached residential, with 20,000-square-foot minimum lots, to medium density, single-family detached residential, with 10,000-square-foot minimum lots.
“This is one where, we, working with the residents, noted that the zoning that we have in this area — 22 properties involved — really isn’t working for them. So the city stepped up and said we’d like to resolve the zoning issues,” Development Services Director Larry Kirch said at the council’s Dec. 3 meeting.
“These properties had inadvertently and incorrectly been zoned to RS-20M, dating back to the city’s adoption of its new zoning ordinance in 2014,” Nicholas Leftwich, planning intern, said in a memo to the council.
