DESIGN REVIEW BOARD

AGENDA

CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS

LOWER LEVEL

57 EAST FIRST STREET

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Regular Agenda 5:00 p.m.

Chair: Tim Nielsen

Vice Chair: Wendy LeSueur

Tom Bottomley Delight Clark

Craig Boswell Greg Lambright

A. Call to Order

B. Consider the Minutes from the July 1, 2009 meeting

C. Take action on all Consent Agenda Items:

All items listed with an asterisk (*) and items added to the consent agenda, will be considered as a group by the Design Review Board and will be decided with a single motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a Board member or citizen so requests, in which event the item will be removed from the Consent Agenda and considered as a separate item. Additionally, the Board may place an item on the consent agenda but such an item may be removed from the consent agenda by the request of a citizen.

D. Discuss, receive comment and take action on the following Design Review cases:

1. DR09-15 NWC McDowell & Ridgecrest. Desert Creek at Las Sendas

A 73,972 sq. ft. office building, residential Villas at Las Sendas, the internal circulation road and the dry creek area.

(Council District 5)

Staff Planner: Tom Ellsworth

Staff Recommendation: Approval with conditions

Board Action: Approved with conditions

E. Discuss, receive comment and take action on the following appeals of Administrative Design Review:

None

F. Discuss and give direction to City staff on the following text amendment:

Possible amendment to the Mesa City Code regarding Titles 2 and 11 as they apply to the Planning and Zoning Board, Downtown Development Committee, and Design Review Board.

Staff Planner: Gordon Sheffield

Staff Recommendation: Discuss and continue

G. Other Business:

Discuss the feasibility of using synthetic turf as a landscape material including within the right-of-way.

Hear a presentation from staff and discuss Module 4 of the Zoning Code Update

Distribute submittals to Board

H. Adjournment:

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