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By AZBEX
Ardent Arizona, LLC is requesting a Comprehensive Plan and zoning amendment for 369 acres south of Puzzi Ranch Road on either side of Kings Highway near Douglas. The requests would change the site use from rural residential to light industrial.
The Cochise County Planning and Zoning Commission is scheduled to hear the requests May 14.
The location had been part of a master planned development site established in 2008, which reverted to a rural designation in 2022 after the proposed mixed-use development failed to materialize. Ardent now plans to develop the site with warehousing and storage uses in support of the planned $275M Douglas Commercial Land Port of Entry on North James Ranch Road.
The developer’s application materials say the plan is made possible by recent changes to the area, including, “Project approval and issuance of contract to construct Douglas’s New Commercial Port, new 4-5 lane connector road from new commercial port to highway 80, 7-mile city utility extension, expansion of U.S. Border Patrol capabilities and potentially facilities, expansion of electric grid to green-energy bill and the construction of a mirrored commercial port in Mexico.”
