Photo via Pinal County
By Roland Murphy | AZBEX
In its meeting this week, the Pinal County Planning and Zoning Commission will consider a request by Pinal County to rezone more than 3,200 acres in unincorporated San Tan Valley to allow for future development.
The County submitted the application on behalf of the Arizona State Land Department to ready the property for a potential future land auction, or multiple auctions, depending on what developers and development types may find the area of interest.
Covering 3,238.7 acres, the site lies between Hash Knife Draw Road to the north, Bella Vista Drive to the south, Schnepf Road to the east, and Hunt Highway to the west in the unincorporated San Tan Valley area of the county. It is roughly bisected on a northwest to southeast line by Gantzel Road.
The site is located approximately 10 miles south of Queen Creek and 25 miles north of Florence. The Gila River Indian Community sits five miles north and eight miles west.
The land is currently covered by a variety of different land use designations. According to the submitted project narrative, “This request is being submitted by Pinal County on behalf of ASLD to provide a “Special District” land use designation in accordance with the Pinal County Comprehensive Plan, which would allow for the processing of zoning entitlements on State Trust land. The current land use designations are Suburban Neighborhood, Urban Transition, Urban Center and Suburban Office in the San Tan Valley Special Area Plan. The request is to designate the entire 3,238.7± acre site to ‘Special District’. Accompanying this request is an application to rezone the property in question to the Large Master Planned Community zoning for the approximately 3,238.7-acre area. The proposal for L-MPC zoning will provide a framework for managing and regulating the density, intensity, zoning and development on the ASLD land over the next decade.”
