By Mark Carlisle | Your Valley
More housing is planned near Phoenix’s Steele Indian School Park.
A development of 72 three-story townhomes is planned by Cresleigh Homes on 4.3 acres north of the northeast corner of Central Avenue and Indian School Road.
The townhomes would be just north of the park’s western entrance along Central Avenue.
The Cresleigh Homes development was approved for a rezone 11-3 by Phoenix’s Encanto Village Planning Committee last week, but two hurdles remain. A rezoning hearing before the Phoenix Planning Commission is scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 7, and the project will come before City Council for final approval of the rezone on Wednesday, Nov. 3.
The townhomes will add more residences around Steele Indian School Park on Central Avenue, but will be dwarfed by the other nearby project. A development by Pivotal Group plans six towers ranging from 165 to 355 feet tall that will include 250 apartments, 150 condominiums, 200 senior housing units, a 200-room hotel and 760,000 square feet of commercial space.
The Cresleigh Homes townhomes will be three stories with a maximum height of 40 feet.
The requested rezone would change the site from urban residential, transit oriented development-1 to a planned-unit development, which is a custom zoning based on the needs of that site.
