Frequently Asked Questions

The project site is a 320+ acre vacant parcel located just north and south of Lone Mountain Parkway and east of El Mirage Road in the City of Peoria.

Envisioned as the energetic heartbeat and high-quality lifestyle hub of our award-winning Vistancia community, FIVE NORTH at VISTANCIA’s plan includes a mix of unique, eclectic and creatively infused experiences to eat, work, live, and connect.

The Developer is pursuing all options to locate a high school in the Commercial Core. For the last 20 years, the City of Peoria and the Peoria Unified School District had targeted the Vistancia Commercial Core as a potential location for a full-sized district high school, should voters pass a Bond to fund the construction. Unfortunately, a Bond has not passed by Peoria voters since 2012. PUSD and the City are continually seeking to identify a site in the vicinity that would accommodate a future full high school campus, when and if Peoria voters approve a Bond to build one.

NO – The previous plan included two golf courses which were intended to be located north of the CAP Canal.
Vistancia has been and will continue to be developed with environmentally sensitive community building practices in place. This can be recognized with the removal of potentially two (2) future golf courses within the land area north of the CAP canal, acknowledging that development of these facilities would negatively impact the water portfolio within the City. The removal of the golf courses directly supports the City of Peoria’s Tier 2 water savings plan ensuring water use is considered in all current and future development plans.

The proposed amendment does not negatively affect any natural watercourse, natural mountain feature or any open space amenities within Vistancia, demonstrating the commitment made to preserving areas in their native state and implementing sustainable planning practices that benefit the local Vistancia community and the City of Peoria.

FIVE NORTH at VISTANCIA is separate from the existing residential villages within Vistancia. Property within FIVE NORTH which includes residential units will be required to provide amenities (i.e., pools, playgrounds, etc.) commensurate with the size of each residential community within FIVE NORTH.

The Owners within FIVE NORTH will pay Assessments to the Vistancia Maintenance Corporation and the Owners and their Lessees or Assignees within FIVE NORTH will have access to the Community Common Areas that all villages in Vistancia enjoy, i.e., the Discovery Trail. A linear park is planned within FIVE NORTH, to connect residents within Vistancia to FIVE NORTH and its amenities. This linear park is planned to be an extension of the Discovery Trail, allowing true pedestrian and bicycle connectivity throughout the entirety of the Vistancia community, making a meaningful connection with highly utilized open space in the community and commercial activity that will be developed in FIVE NORTH.

The property is presently vacant desert, and consists of two (2) parcels. The northern parcel (APN 510-10-266) is a vacant parcel adjacent to existing residential to the north and east and is zoned V-MU (Vistancia Mixed Use). The southern portion of the property (APN 510-08-937) is a vacant parcel adjacent to vacant desert, existing and planned commercial and is also zoned V-MU (Vistancia Mixed Use).

As previously noted, the property currently has Mixed-Use zoning. The existing Mixed-Use zoning designation allows the greatest amount of land use flexibility, including the capability to integrate employment, retail, and residential uses in a harmonious site plan.

Vistancia Development LLC is processing a major amendment to the zoning entitlement or PCD, which seeks to further expand and diversify the housing stock and lifestyle opportunities within the Commercial Core. Adjustments include the addition of 1,500 residential units, as well as refinement to the development standards and plan for the Commercial Core within the PCD.

The Commercial Core at Vistancia has always been planned to contain a mix of retail, office, multi-family and other complementary uses to serve the diverse needs of Vistancia and the City of Peoria residents and visitors. The mixed-use zoning is intended to accommodate higher intensity commercial, employment, industrial, as well as higher density residential uses (typically intended to serve a regional market area within a ten-mile radius).

No, these multi-family residential units are planned to be market rate, luxury, lifestyle focused multi-family residential units, with luxury amenities for the future multi-family residents.

The maximum height for development within the Commercial Core is not changing from the existing allowance of one hundred twenty feet (120′).

There is no required increase in the currently allowed residential building heights of eighty-five feet (85′) for the Commercial Core to accommodate the requested additional residential units.

• Vistancia is requesting an additional one thousand five hundred (1,500) dwelling units to the overall entitlement – raising the total residential unit maximum to 12,000 units.
• The original Vistancia PCD allowed for 17,334 total units. A major amendment in 2012 reduced the total allowable units to 10,500.  Over time Vistancia has identified the need to “right size” the maximum residential unit count to 12,000, while concurrently placing these additional 1,500 units in the “right location” (FIVE NORTH).
• The proposed amendment adds units for development within the Commercial Core (FIVE NORTH); residential densities within remaining developed and undeveloped portions of VPCD will not be impacted.
• These additional market-rate dwelling units will provide much needed housing for planned employment uses within Peoria and the surrounding region.
• The additional units will also provide the necessary ”critical mass” to catalyze and support the creation of a viable and walkable live, work and play environment.

The Vistancia Planned Community District (PCD) boundary that was established in 2001 does not include the Trilogy West expansion area added to the master plan in late 2016. Trilogy West has a separate Planned Area Development (PAD) that was approved by the City of Peoria in 2013.

A Neighborhood Meeting to provide project information and feedback was held on June 7, 2023, 6:00 – 7:30 PM at the Vistancia Mountain Vista Club Gymnasium

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