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Rezoning 113 lots is subject of hearing
By Carol Broeder/Arizona Range News
The Willcox City Council has rescheduled a public hearing on a proposal to rezone property east of the railroad tracks from industrial to residential.
In 2002, the city's General Plan identified this area as residential, said Dave Bonner, the city's zoning administrator, adding that in the original Willcox Town Site maps, these lots are platted as residential lots.
Louise Henderson purchased 113 lots on the east side of the city, and is currently developing a five-bungalow neighborhood on Rail View Avenue in the Willcox Historic District.
"The staff has encountered a problem and it is being removed from the agenda. It will be presented for processing to the Mayor and Council and the public at a later date," stated the agenda for the council's Sept. 18 meeting.
"We are going to start all over anew with that one," Mayor Woody Johnson said at the time.
The public hearing and final vote will be held at the regular city council meeting at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 16, in council chambers, 207 W. Maley St.
All members of the public are invited to attend.
Those wishing to comment but unable to attend the public hearing may make written comments until 4 p.m. on the day of the public hearing, in the Office of the City Clerk at 101 S. Railroad Ave., Suite B.
The public hearing was originally scheduled for Monday, Sept. 18, and was postponed.
The area proposed for rezoning is from First Avenue to the alley east of Third Avenue, and from Stewart Street to the northern boundary of the city, which is north of Wood Street, said Bonner.
"This rezoning request is the correction of an error made in 1971 when the property was rezoned from residential use to industrial use," Henderson said in her rezoning petition.
"These lots, at 50' x 150' were obviously platted originally for residential use. I purchased the property from several individual investors and assembled this block of land for residential development. I will not develop this property for industrial use," she said.
The property in the proposed rezoning area is the largest undeveloped property in the city limits with the potential for residential development, Henderson said.
It has permanent views of Dos Cabezas as the adjacent ranch will probably not be sold in the foreseeable future; walking distance to downtown; and is the best opportunity for a planned upscale neighborhood in the city without having to deal with existing structures inside its boundaries, I-10 traffic, and visual pollution of commercial development, she said.
In a list of facts included with her petition, Henderson said that she purchased five lots along Rail View Avenue in June 2005, and 113 lots on the east side of the city that summer.
"This is the largest area of contiguous empty lots available for single family residential development in the City of Willcox," said Henderson, adding that most of the lots are also "outside the flood zone that characterizes much of the city on the west side of the railroad tracks."
She also gave a five-year timeline for improvements, with underground utilities, including water, sewer, and electric, installed in the first year, and city streets and alleys to be improved and maintained by the city.
In the second year, construction of 10 new homes would commence, with construction of 10 to 20 new homes in the third, fourth, and fifth years.
In 2002, the city's General Plan identified this area as residential, said Dave Bonner, the city's zoning administrator, adding that in the original Willcox Town Site maps, these lots are platted as residential lots.
Louise Henderson purchased 113 lots on the east side of the city, and is currently developing a five-bungalow neighborhood on Rail View Avenue in the Willcox Historic District.
"The staff has encountered a problem and it is being removed from the agenda. It will be presented for processing to the Mayor and Council and the public at a later date," stated the agenda for the council's Sept. 18 meeting.
"We are going to start all over anew with that one," Mayor Woody Johnson said at the time.
The public hearing and final vote will be held at the regular city council meeting at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 16, in council chambers, 207 W. Maley St.
All members of the public are invited to attend.
Those wishing to comment but unable to attend the public hearing may make written comments until 4 p.m. on the day of the public hearing, in the Office of the City Clerk at 101 S. Railroad Ave., Suite B.
The public hearing was originally scheduled for Monday, Sept. 18, and was postponed.
The area proposed for rezoning is from First Avenue to the alley east of Third Avenue, and from Stewart Street to the northern boundary of the city, which is north of Wood Street, said Bonner.
"This rezoning request is the correction of an error made in 1971 when the property was rezoned from residential use to industrial use," Henderson said in her rezoning petition.
"These lots, at 50' x 150' were obviously platted originally for residential use. I purchased the property from several individual investors and assembled this block of land for residential development. I will not develop this property for industrial use," she said.
The property in the proposed rezoning area is the largest undeveloped property in the city limits with the potential for residential development, Henderson said.
It has permanent views of Dos Cabezas as the adjacent ranch will probably not be sold in the foreseeable future; walking distance to downtown; and is the best opportunity for a planned upscale neighborhood in the city without having to deal with existing structures inside its boundaries, I-10 traffic, and visual pollution of commercial development, she said.
In a list of facts included with her petition, Henderson said that she purchased five lots along Rail View Avenue in June 2005, and 113 lots on the east side of the city that summer.
"This is the largest area of contiguous empty lots available for single family residential development in the City of Willcox," said Henderson, adding that most of the lots are also "outside the flood zone that characterizes much of the city on the west side of the railroad tracks."
She also gave a five-year timeline for improvements, with underground utilities, including water, sewer, and electric, installed in the first year, and city streets and alleys to be improved and maintained by the city.
In the second year, construction of 10 new homes would commence, with construction of 10 to 20 new homes in the third, fourth, and fifth years.
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