The Planning Commission is not meeting in April, according to the city’s website, with the city posting online this week that the April 21 meeting was cancelled.
The body is statutorily scheduled to meet on the first and third Tuesday of every month, but it’s met monthly since June 2024, which was the last time it met biweekly.
Earlier in the year, the commission discussed Belcaro, a Sand Canyon senior community that gave a virtual tour in January, or Princessa Crossroads, a proposal for 300 market-rate apartments on 146 acres, which will benefit from a Via Princessa extension. The Via Princessa extension is expected to be approved after the project.
Belcaro is a New Urban West project that’s looking at 341 single-family senior homes on 193 acres east of Sand Canyon and Lost Canyon roads, north of Sand Canyon Country Club.
Patrick Leclair, senior planning manager for the city, said in a phone interview Thursday the Planning Division staff is still working on finalizing the environmental-review documents for those two projects, which makes it difficult to say exactly when they’ll be ready for the Planning Commission review.
“So, some months we have one meeting, (others) we end up having both meetings — it just depends on the forecast and what’s coming through the review process,” Leclair said.
He also said there’s been no directive or change from the City Council or commission itself, in terms of the meeting schedule, attributing the monthly meetups to the timing of what projects have been completed.
