(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Lennar.)
By Richard Dyer | YourValley
A rezoning, planned-area development overlay and major site plan modification have been approved for the development of Hawes Crossing Village north of Elliot Road on west side of Hawes Road.
The Mesa City Council on Nov. 20 voted 6-1 to approve rezoning 17.4 acres of the 98-acre existing Hawes Crossing Village 1 PAD to include a single-residence development known as Village 1 Phase 2. Dissenting was District 6 Councilmember Scott Somers.
Residential uses were never intended for the area under the city’s general or gateway strategic development plans, Somers said prior to the vote.
“Both those plans, when you look at them, neither one of them suggested residential in this area what’s called inside the loop, which is the area between Power Road and the Loop 202. What it envisioned is that an appropriate residential project would be a mixed-use development of buildings of 40 dwelling units per net acre, so that would be more of a low- to mid-rise type of a development,” Somers said.
