By Adam Gaub | TriValley Central
An approximately 15-to-18-mile road is being considered through land owned by the Bureau of Land Management that would connect the Maricopa area with Phoenix’s West Valley.
Speaking at a presentation to the Maricopa City Council on July 16, BLM Phoenix District project manager Kathleen Depukat said the Sonoran Valley Parkway Project is seeking to lay the framework for what would be a 2-6-lane parkway through the “Rainbow Valley” area west of Maricopa. The road would connect Arizona 238 in the town of Mobile to the Goodyear/Avondale area in the West Valley.
Depukat said several years have been spent already on this project, which was initiated at the request of the City of Goodyear not long after that municipality completed an annexation process that brought the town of Mobile within its city limits.
The draft of the study’s environmental impact study was posted in mid-July and citizens have until Sept. 3 to submit formal comments on the document. The easiest way to do so, Depukat said, is for residents to attend an Aug. 22 meeting in Maricopa on the project.
That meeting is set from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., at the Ak-Chin Southern Dunes Golf Course, 48456 W. Hwy. 238, in Maricopa.
