Here are a few of the issues...

Here are a few of the issues the commission will consider Monday.

PHARMACY APPLICATION

The Planning Commission will consider an application from Tait &

Associates -- representing property owner C.J. Segerstrom & Sons --

for a Sav-On Drugs with a drive-thru at 1150 and 1170 Baker St. The

nearly 15,000-square-foot project would require demolishing the

Wendy’s restaurant and the closed Farr’s Stationers on the site in

the Mesa North Shopping Center. The application also includes a

request to sell alcoholic beverages that would typically be sold in a

drugstore.

This type of project usually doesn’t come before the commission,

but since the site is close to residences and has a potential to

create noise, it will consider the application to provide a public

hearing. To reduce the noise from the drugstore, staff members

suggest 8- to 10-foot high sound walls, limited trash collection and

delivery hours and signs telling truck drivers to turn off their

engines when they are loading or unloading.

Before submitting its application, C.J. Segerstrom & Sons held

three neighborhood meetings to discuss the proposal with interested

residents.

WHAT TO EXPECT

Staff members don’t anticipate any major adverse effects from the

project as long as measures are taken to compensate for the noise.

They recommend approving the project.

ZONING STANDARDS

The commission will consider some changes to the zoning code to

clarify definitions and standards. One of these changes would require

a mobile-home park owner who wants to close a park to get city

approval to do so.

Another change would establish a maximum height of 8 feet for

walls in commercial and industrial zones, unless an environmental

study requires them to be higher.

WHAT TO EXPECT

The commission will give staff members direction on the change

they want to see in the zoning code.

PERMIT STREAMLINING

The commission will consider ways to streamline the rules

governing the permit and review process. The City Council, at its

June 21 meeting, discussed a host of ways city programs and services

could be streamlined to save the city money.

A large percentage of development projects in the city require

permits or some sort of review.

Some of the staff members’ recommendations are to delegate all

review and approval of projects in public parks to the Parks and

Recreation Commission and to reduce public-notice requirements from

500 to 300 feet, which is all that is required by the state.

WHAT TO EXPECT

Commission members will look for ways to simplify the permit and

review process.