By BEX Staff for AZBEX
The Florence Planning and Zoning Commission has recommended approval of a requested rezoning for a 40-acre site called Westland Village at the SWC of Butte Avenue and Centennial Park Place.
The requested rezoning would change the vacant site from rural agricultural to planned unit development to allow the development of 112 single-family homes on 27 acres and up to 158 multifamily units on the remaining 13. Roughly eight acres of the total site would be made up of open space.
Surrounding sites include single-family residential, a drainage channel and the 40-acre Territory Square planned development site.
According to a local news article, some commissioners and residents questioned the project area’s capacity to handle the traffic volume the new development would create. The project documents submitted with the requests contain extensive traffic analysis and capacity projections. Project representatives from iPlan Consulting explained the plans are preliminary at this point and the Town will ultimately dictate what accommodations need to be created.
Also currently undetermined is the character of the multifamily component. The project documents and comments during the hearing say the units may be either rental or for-sale spaces depending on determinations to be made later.
The rezoning request is meant to “lay the groundwork,” representatives said, and there is approximately a year’s worth of work remaining before construction could be considered.
They added the Westland Village development is planned to support the ongoing growth and development of Florence, including the planned Territory Square residential and infrastructure developments currently planned near Heritage Park.
The traffic analysis was conducted by United Civil Group. RVi Planning + Landscape Architecture created the site plan renderings. The project is represented by iPlan Consulting.
