The incoming Coyote Crest development on Roosevelt Street was rezoned to a Planned Area Development, paving the way for its three-tier format that aims to address a middle-housing deficit through multi-family units and build-to-rent cottages.
The request was brought before Buckeye City Council at its Dec. 16 regular meeting by Alan Beaudoin, principal at Norris Design, on behalf of his client Skyline 62 LLC. The approximately 64 acres are located at the southwest corner of Rainbow Road and Roosevelt Street, which will be renamed McDowell Parkway. The property was formerly zoned Planned Community, a designation being phased out according to Planner II Patricia Cooley earlier in the meeting during another agenda item rezoning a downtown property.
Coyote Crest is split into three development units. Development Unit No. 1 includes 275 build-to-rent cottages on nearly 25 acres; Unit No. 2 includes 170 duplex and triplex townhomes on 18 acres; and Unit No. 3 includes 456 garden apartments on nearly 20 acres for a total of 901 dwelling units across all styles and an average of 14.5 dwelling units per acre.
“Because it’s adjacent to The Landing and the need for job growth in this particular area, they’re proposing to fill a need for diverse housing,” said Senior Planner Sean Bonda who presented the request before City Council on Dec. 16.
The community is designed with Unit No. 3's higher density housing located on the back side of the property with the the lower density housing adjacent to another low density housing neighborhood across the street. This aims to keep continuity of housing style and minimize view impairments for low-density, low-height housing, said Bonda.
Infrastructure planning for the development is still being fleshed out, such as school district needs, utility improvements and traffic flow plans including driveway entrances and turning 231st Avenue into a collector street. There will be a walking path and trail through the property.
Rezoning all three development units under the same designation is more fitting for the flexibility and continuity of theme needed for a project of this nature, said Bonda.
“That’s something you wouldn’t get if we did this as three individual projects," he said, "but unifying the three, creating an overall vision for this not only gives the city assurances that they’re doing to develop in a certain sense, but they’re going to develop with this overall theme and patter and taking advantage of some of the flexibilities that the PAD creates.”
The Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approving the rezoning and the request was passed unanimously by City Council. View the city documents HERE.
