By Jason W. Brooks | YourValley
BUCKEYE — Before the Buckeye City Council held a 12-minute regular meeting Tuesday, a 1-hour, 40-minute workshop was devoted to a downtown long-range plan.
Tuesday afternoon, council attended and participated in a workshop that included a presentation by planner Taylor Plummer and others from the Olsson Studio.
The Buckeye Downtown Specific Area Plan incorporates elements and restrictions from Buckeye’s amended general plan. However, it also takes into account the age of downtown and the fact it is mostly built-out, with less vacant desert than most other development areas of the city will have.
After Plummer’s presentation, the first two elected officials to speak offered up a small surprise. While city planning mentions of other communities often focus on negative examples, hoping to keep a city’s look unique, council member Tony Youngker said he foresees Buckeye doing what the Town of Gilbert has done in the past couple of decades.
“City Hall has a shelf life built into it,” Youngker said. “I can’t see it being here and saving the same purpose in 20 years.
