This graphic shows the current city zoning for the area south of Honeycutt Road in Seven Ranches. Lincoln Avenue Capital’s application for a 228-unit apartment community in the outlined area was rejected at Monday’s Planning & Zoning meeting. [Lincoln Avenue Capital graphic]
By Jay Taylor | InMaricopa
The Maricopa Planning & Zoning Commission Monday denied the application request of Lincoln Avenue Capital, LLC for a zoning change from commercial to mixed use and also approval of the site plan, landscape, photometric and elevation plans for a 228-unit apartment community planned for the Seven Ranches area of the city.
Commission chair Linda Huggins and members Jim Irving, Rachel Leffall and Dan Frank voted against the request, while Ted Yocum and Bill Robertson voted in favor. Vice chair Michael Sharpe, who has moved out of the city but still sits on the commission, was absent.
The proposed project is a residential, multi-family project with nine 3-story buildings at southwest corner of W. Honeycutt Road and N. Continental Blvd., just west of White and Parker Road. The property on the corner of the main intersection is zoned commercial.
The objections from those voting against the project were two-fold: the lack of input afforded to the other property owners in the Seven Ranches area, and the single use plan for an area the developer is asking to be converted to mixed use zoning.
