By Albert Vetere Lannon a member of The Avra Valley Coalition
On October 8 Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry sent the Board of Supervisors a memorandum saying, “We have commissioned and Economic Revenue and Impact Study for the Sonoran Corridor…perhaps the single largest economic development initiative in the last 50 years within Pima County.”
The problem is that the Sonoran Corridor, which is slated to receive $30 million in funding from the Pima County bonds package to be voted on November 3 as Proposition 425, seems to be in clear violation of the Board of Supervisors “oppose the construction of any new highways in or around the County that have the stated purpose of bypassing the existing Interstate 10 as it is believe that the environmental, historic, archaeological, and urban form impacts could not be adequately mitigated.”
