By Becky Pallack | Arizona Daily Star
Sahuarita’s rapid growth was reined in by the recession, but town leaders are trying to not let that slow them down.
They’re using the downtime to take a new look at an old plan to annex enough state-owned land to more than double the size of the town.
A planning process has begun, with public- input meetings coming later this year.
A committee of town staff and consultants has met a few times this year to talk about how the town could take in roughly 60 square miles from the State Land Department between current town limits and Houghton Road .
A previous attempt ended around six years ago when the state agency said the area was too large, and it wanted to see planning done first, said Assistant Town Manager Farhad Moghimi, who is leading a planning committee.
