By: Cody Weisel | Vizzda
Planning - Mesa’s Office of Economic Development is taking
strides to incentive the development of a technology corridor just north of the
bourgeoning Eastmark Community. The 1.5 square mile project area has been
dubbed the "Elliot Road Technology Corridor", and will be located on
the north side of Elliot Road between Hawes & Signal Butte Roads – just west
of the former First Solar building now occupied by Apple Corporation. To create
this district Mesa is putting forth entitlement requests to rezone the project
area as Limited Industrial (LI) with a Planned Area Development (PAD) Overlay.
According to the application/project narrative, the rezoning/overlay request
has 3 major purposes: 1.) "Expedite the entitlements process to
attract high technology industries to Mesa" 2.) "Establish site
planning design guidelines to ensure compliance with the City of Mesa General
Plan and Mesa Gateway Strategic Development Plan" and 3.) "Establish
... maximum height limitations within the corridor". By laying out
this foundation, the city of Mesa hopes to create “at least 100,000 high-wage,
high value jobs” within the near future.
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