By BEX Staff for AZBEX
The Buckeye Planning and Zoning Commission has recommended approval of a request by Dolphin Partners Inc. and Quantum Capital (Buckeye Tartesso LCC) to amend the Tartesso Community Master Plan, increasing the commercial area for the portion covered by the request by 1,280 acres and reducing the volume of single-family lots from 8,879 to 2,866. The total area under consideration is 1,787 acres.
Media reports say P&Z made the recommendation for approval in its Aug. 8 meeting and the City Council is expected to take up the request on Sept. 5.
This marks the fifth amendment to the community master plan since its approval in 2000. According to the submitted narrative for the new development, the goals are:
- Increase the economic/employment potential of the CMP by adding approximately 1,280 acres for employment uses, to be known as Buckeye Spectrum,
- Allow for land use flexibility in order to meet current and future market demands,
- More closely align the CMP with the City of Buckeye’s Transportation Master Plan, dated August 2019, and Development Code, and
- Provide development and design standards for high density residential, mixed use and commercial/industrial property.
The request is fueled by shifts in market forces since the plan was originally approved. Tartesso is divided into nine areas, or “villages,” for development and planning purposes. According to the narrative, “The Project is located at the southeast corner of the McDowell Road alignment and Sun Valley Parkway. The purpose of this amendment is to revise the primarily residential uses in Villages 2 and 3 to employment/industrial uses. Village 2 is approximately 241 acres and Village 3 is approximately 1,546 acres, for a total of 1,787 acres. The land uses in Village 2 are mixed use and generally remain unchanged with this request. The land uses in Village 3 east of Turner Parkway are residential and remain unchanged with this request. The balance of Villages 2 and 3 are generally modified from residential uses to commercial uses.”
The site’s proximity to both Interstate 10 and State Route 85, an area that has seen extensive industrial development in recent years, led to the change request. If granted, industrial uses in the covered area will be separated or buffered from both existing and planned residential properties in the “Tartesso East” portion of the master site, which includes three villages that have already undergone residential development.
The ownership/development team is Quantum Capital and Dolphin Partners, Inc. HILGARTWILSON LLC is the civil engineering and planning firm. Landscape architecture is by McGough Adamson, and the traffic engineer is CivTech.
