The Scottsdale Planning height to 149 feet including Commission has recommended rooftop mechanical. That is the City Council approve roughly as tall as the amended development standards AmTrust bank building at 68th at the Scottsdale Waterfront Street and Camelback Road and to allow for a building that the Scottsdale Waterfront would rival the city's condominium towers at tallest structures. Camelback and Scottsdale Scottsdale Waterfront LLC, roads.The request also the owner, wants the city to includes4 acres of open space modify its development across the entire Waterfront standards for the vacant development.Michael Curley, parcel immediately south of an attorney representing the the Nordstrom parking garage owners of nearly 200 to allow for a building that Waterfront condominiums, would rise nearly 150 feet. argued that the developer "We just want to have a should stick to the single tower to the east," development standards agreed said Brett Sassenberg, upon back in 2003. "We think Scottsdale Waterfront LLC the approval completely spokesman. "It's an efficient deviates from the city's structure, it's into the normal standards," he said. downtown because it makes "To give this additional sense for the downtown."The height without any site plan applicant hasn't yet is, in our view, the submitted a specific site equivalent of signing a blank plan or use for Phase IV and check."Berry said the V of the Waterfront original plan's heights would development. John Berry, an force a development with attorney representing the "squished- down" buildings applicant, said the recession and consequently less open has created an environment space. The amended plan calls where financing isn't for a greater buffer along available until the Goldwater and moving greater development standards are in building heights away from place and a user has been areas outside of the downtown, identified. "This allows he said.The previous plan nothing to be built, it called for two buildings of doesn't block anyone's views, up to 36 feet in height, plus " he said. "This allows (the up to 24 feet of mechanical applicant) to move forward needs, to the west of the and design the project. parcel. It also allows for "Commissioners based much of one 85-foot-tall building their unanimous vote on the plus up to 24 feet of applicant's record of mechanical to the east. "What development at the Waterfront. they're requesting completely Commission Chairman Michael is an abandonment of D'Andrea said the Waterfront commitments that were made in has greatly benefited the 2003 relative to the height downtown and he looks forward on the parcel," Curley said. to seeing the next phase of After the vote, Sassenberg the project."This still does said he looks forward to the have to go through the council considering this (approval) process," request."It's an infill- Commission Vice Chairman Ed incentive district and all of Grant said. "If this were a it is amendable," he said, of full-blown proposal, a the district created by the continuance would be City Council this past summer appropriate, but it's not. that allows developers to This is consistent with the seek revised standards on downtown plan."The 3.35-acre building heights. "We've gone site, called the Goldwater through a major economic parcel, is on the east side crisis, and things have to of Goldwater Boulevard and change. It's happening all the north side of the Arizona around the Valley, it's Canal. The maximum height now happening all around the allowed on the parcel is 85 nation. It's inevitable and feet excluding rooftop it will be positive once it's mechanical needs. The request finished." is to increase that maximum
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