By Paul Maryniak | Ahwatukee Foothills News
It wasn’t as tense as a fight between two motorists for the last parking space on the block, but the Ahwatukee Foothills Village Planning Committee and city planners engaged in a rare fight July 24.
The bout came during the panel’s consideration of the proposal to reduce – and in some cases, all but eliminate – minimum parking space requirements for apartment complexes.
The disagreement quickly emerged when member Darin Fisher suggested an alternative resolution to the take-it-or-leave-it measure that the city had put before the panel for a vote.
And it’s unclear whether the alternative proposal approved by the panel will make its way to the city Planning Commission when it meets today, Aug. 3, to consider a recommendation to City Council for a final decision Sept. 6.
Ahwatukee VPC members echoed complaints against the measure in its current form that have been made by their counterparts in other Phoenix villages.
