The Glendale Star - 9.30.2021

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Vol. 77 No. 40

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September 30, 2021

‘Hungry’ Coyotes headed for final Glendale season BY ZACH LARSON Cronkite News

They needed a new coach, a new home and even some new players after making a slew of off-season trades. Now, with a new season around the bend, the Arizona Coyotes entered training camp feeling refreshed. “I’m sure there (aren’t) too many teams in history that have had this amount of turnover in a year. I don’t know if expansion teams even have this much,” forward Christian Fischer said, jokingly. The Coyotes’ 2021 offseason was the busiest among all NHL clubs as the team traded multiple players, signed André Tourigny as their new

coach and, most recently, began looking for a new home. This season will be the last at Gila River Arena in Glendale. All of this activity hangs over low pre-season expectations surrounding the Coyotes, giving the players a lot to process and push aside in their preparation. “I just try to block out the noise and go play good hockey,” forward Lawson Crouse said. “I’d be lying if I said I didn’t see the projections of where we will be this season. Those are just projections; they aren’t always accurate.” Since 2003, the Coyotes have called Glendale their home. But in August, SEE COYOTES PAGE 4

“It’s been a crazy offseason,” Jakob Chychrun said. (Photo by James Franks/Cronkite News)

Council takes next steps in Sonoma Cotton annexation BY NICOLE DAY

Glendale Star Contributing Writer

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The Glendale City Council agreed during its Sept. 14 workshop to move forward with processing the Sonoma Cotton Annexation, a proposed 36-acre mixed-use development at Cotton Lane and Northern Avenue. The Sonoma Cotton Annexation project proposes multifamily housing: 144 detached single-level units on approximately 11.6 acres. Glendale will annex the land that is in unincorporated Maricopa County. Council members questioned the commercial aspects of the proposed development and the plans for high-density sin-

gle-family housing on the parcel. In the presentation at the city council workshop, there is a Luke Air Force Base Graduated Density Concept, to encourage development that gradually increases residential density outside of legislated “high noise” and “accident potential zone” areas, in the planning for the annexation and, according to Tabitha Perry from Glendale Planning and Zoning, “Luke Air Force Base is aware of the annexation and, upon initial look of the annexation itself, there doesn’t appear to be any concerns from their perspective.” However, they are still reviewing the rezoning application before making their final decision. The city staff are still unaware of any

specific end users for the commercial portion, Perry said. “It’s in his (the developer’s) right to include all of the acreage in his mathematical equation and then turn around and say we need the four units to the acre,” Councilmember Joyce Clark of the Yucca District said. “As far as I’m concerned, the applicant is using false math when it comes to the residential plan.” Mayor Jerry Weiers expressed reservations about the proposed residential section of development. “To think that everyone is going to work in those new developments and live in those apartments, I think, is wrong,” Weiers said. SEE SONOMA PAGE 3

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