By Scott Shumaker | East Valley Tribune
City of Mesa planning staff issued a rare “denial” recommendation for a rezoning case that went before the Planning and Zoning Board this month, arguing that vacant land in the Arizona Health and Technology Park just south of State Route 60 at Baseline and Recker roads should remain zoned for a medical campus.
In the face of staff opposition, the board split down the middle on whether to allow the 10-acre parcel in question to be rezoned for a 394-unit multifamily residential complex.
The site is part of a 254-acre district that city officials envisioned in 2004 as an employment hub anchored by a hospital with a medical, technology and education focus
