[IN-DEPTH] Tusayan development hangs on road decision

 A 2010 conceptual design of Stilo's development at Kotzin Ranch, a 160-acre parcel about a mile northwest of the town of Tusayan. Yellow represents single-family housing, orange represents multi-family residential, light orange represents lodging, mauve represents cultural campus, brown represents institutional park, red represents neighborhood retail, pink represents ground level retail, purple represents dormitories and green represents park areas./Stilo drawing

A 2010 conceptual design of Stilo’s development at Kotzin Ranch, a 160-acre parcel about a mile northwest of the town of Tusayan. /Stilo drawing

By Emery Cowan | Arizona Daily Sun

A battle is brewing over five miles of dirt road curving away from the town of Tusayan barely a half-dozen miles from the Grand Canyon’s South Rim.

It began in earnest last July when the town of Tusayan filed a request with the Forest Service for roadway and utility easements on two forest roads.

Although easement requests tend to be a common and routine procedure for the Forest Service, this one is different.

The Forest Service roads provide the only possible access to two parcels that are owned by Stilo Development Group, the Italian company seeking to build thousands of homes and millions of square feet of commercial space on a total of about 350 acres outside of town.

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