Boos, chants and protests greet ADOT at Ahwatukee meeting on freeway

Ahwatukee Foothills Village Planning meeting, held 8/22/16. A small group of Gila River Indians voiced their opposition to the 202 Highway and danced in front of the committee and general crowd./ Cheryl Haselhorst/AFN Staff Photographer
Ahwatukee Foothills Village Planning meeting, held 8/22/16. A small group of Gila River Indians voiced their opposition to the 202 Highway and danced in front of the committee and general crowd./ Cheryl Haselhorst/AFN Staff Photographer

By Paul Maryniak | Ahwatukee Foothills News

As a federal judge dealt a major setback to opponents of the South Mountain Freeway, new concerns about the controversial thoroughfare have shifted the focus more from whether it should be built to how it will.

Those concerns prompted several angry outbursts Monday at the Village Planning Committee meeting when a standing-room-only crowd of about 300 people several times booed an Arizona Department of Transportation spokesman and loudly applauded a group of six Gila River Indian Community residents who performed a native dance condemning the project.

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