Title
Public Hearing - Amend City Code - Ordinance Adoption - Multi-Family Conversion Text Amendment - Z-TA-3-25-Y (Ordinance G-7395) - Citywide
Description
Request to hold a public hearing on a proposed text amendment Z-TA-3-25-Y and to request City Council approval, per the Planning Commission recommendation which amends the Phoenix Zoning Ordinance Chapter 7, Section 711 (Multi-Family Conversion) to update regulations for multi-family conversion.
Report
Summary
Governor Hobbs signed House Bill (HB) 2110 on April 7, 2025 with an emergency clause requiring municipalities to update their ordinances to comply with the updated provisions by July 6, 2025. HB 2110 makes further modifications to Arizona Revised Statute Section 9-462 (Commercial buildings; multifamily residential development; adaptive reuse; prohibition on rezoning or municipal review; objective standards; applicability; definitions) which became state law last year. In compliance with the modifications, this text amendment modifies the Phoenix Zoning Ordinance regarding references from “building” to “parcel” when appropriate for compliance with the revised legislation; changes “multi-family zoning” to “properties with multi-family zoning entitlements"; and also clarifies the relationship of adaptive reuse of existing commercial buildings to multi-family use due to a minor definition change in the bill.
Applicant: City of Phoenix, Planning Commission
Representative: City of Phoenix, Planning and Development Department
Staff Recommendation: Approval of Z-TA-3-25-Y, per the language proposed in Exhibit A.
PC Action: The Planning Commission is scheduled to hear this item on June 5, 2025.
Department
Responsible Department
This item is submitted by Deputy City Manager Alan Stephenson and the Planning and Development Department.