DMB’s Planning Process with the City of Mesa
The vision for Mesa Proving Grounds is to develop a community and urban centers that will become the focal point for employment for the area. The City has established aggressive economic goals for the Mesa Gateway area, including the attraction of 100,000 jobs in the coming decades. Mesa Proving Grounds is envisioned to be a major contributor in the attraction of these jobs. In order to be successful in the competition for theses jobs, DMB believes it must create a great place that will be a hub of activity where employers, employees and residents will want to work and live. The creation of this place will evolve over time.

On November 3, 2008, the Mesa City Council unanimously approved DMB’s application for a major amendment to the City’s General Plan. This request consolidated several existing land use designations at Mesa Proving Grounds into the Mixed Use/Community (MUC) land designation. This amendment provided the basis for an application that the City reviewed and approved that rezoned the property to Planned Community District (PCD).

The application for a rezoning to a Planned Community District (PCD) created a planning framework of the property, which will allow Mesa Proving Grounds to be responsive to the market and to be sensitive to the need to be flexible and respond to changing global and employment trends in the future. The PCD will function as a regulatory structure for the development of the property. Land uses, densities and intensities will be identified, as well as development standards that will be applied to the property.

Together, the MUC and the PCD establish a framework that will guide the development of Mesa Proving Grounds over the next 20 to 40 years. Our vision is to create a high quality, innovative community that will be a catalyst for economic development for the area. In addition to the general plan amendment and rezoning applications, the City of Mesa has annexed the Mesa Proving Grounds into the City.