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In a 4-3 vote, the Oro Valley Town Council denied a second effort to rezone the Kai-Capri area from commercial to residential, despite updated plans to limit housing density and community support for the project during their Tuesday, Feb. 2 meeting. While four council members voted in favor of amending the General Plan for the Kai-Capri Special Area Policies to allow 144 casita rental properties on land bordering Kai Drive, near First Avenue and Tangerine Road, the amendment required two-fifths majority, or five votes, in favor to be approved. Vice Mayor Melanie Barrett, along with council members Tim Bohen and Josh Nicolson, voted against the zoning change, as they did during the Jan. 6 council meeting when developers presented a larger residential plan for the intersection. During that meeting, council member Joyce Jones-Ivy also voted against the proposed rezoning. However, the density, the other was because of apartments and the last was looking at this as a ....
In a 4-3 vote, the Oro Valley Town Council rejected a proposed rezoning of the Kai-Capri area from commercial use to multi-family residential use during their council meeting on Jan. 6. Vice Mayor Melanie Barrett and council members Joyce Jones-Ivy, Josh Nicolson and Tim Bohen voted not to approve a Type-1 General Plan amendment to the Kai-Capri Special Area Policies that would change a 13.44 acre parcel near First Avenue and Tangerine Road from C-1 commercial use to R-6 multi-family residential use. The amendment would have also increased the number of permitted residential dwellings from 255 to 394 units within the existing parcel already designated for neighborhood/commercial/office use. ....