At its regular meeting on Thursday, the Sierra Vista City Council voted to terminate development agreements between the City and Lawley Holdings, LLC, and Sanctuary Revocable Living Trust.
Prior to last night’s Council meeting, Sean Lawley requested that the City terminate four separate development agreements pertaining to seven different tax parcels–owned by Lawley Holdings and Sanctuary Revocable Living Trust–on the grounds that they were placing an unnecessary encumbrance on the potential sale of those properties. The City’s Community Development Department reviewed the development agreements and determined that the conditions had been met or were no longer applicable to future development.
The City terminated a similar agreement for the Mall at Sierra Vista in 2020 and has now instituted sunset provisions on new development agreements that include benchmarks for termination of the agreements. This will eliminate the need to bring these agreements back before Council.
The Council’s decision will remove unnecessary obstacles for Lawley Holdings and Sanctuary Revocable Living Trust as they move forward on the sale of the properties and transference of their titles.
In other business:
- Council approved a Conditional Use Permit to authorize New Hope Fellowship Church to construct a 1,200 square-foot expansion to the auditorium on their property. The church falls within a Single-Family Residence-36 zone, which classifies places of worship as a conditional use that requires City Council approval.
- Council approved the abandonment of a portion of Charleston Road right of way and reserved a sewer easement on the property. The property, located along the south side of Charleston Road between the roadway and the Cochise Crossroads shopping center, exceeds the 100-foot-wide right-of-way width requirements and serves no public benefit. The abandonment will transfer ownership of the property to Cochise Crossroads, where it can be used for future development.
