Ahwatukee Foothills News
The spokeswoman for the South Mountain Freeway developer apparently could have been clearer when she told Chandler business leaders two weeks ago that 47 percent of the highway’s right of way still had to be acquired.
A spokesman for the Arizona Department of Transportation said that the 1,387 acres of land it has acquired for the freeway corridor constitutes “90 percent of the total area needed for the project.”
“The total amount of land that ADOT/C202P still needs to acquire on the SMF project is approximately 10 percent of total right-of-way acquisitions needed for the project,” said ADOT spokesman Dustin Krugel.
Theresa Gunn, the spokeswoman for Connect 202 Partners, which is developing and will be maintaining the 22-mile freeway for the next 30 years, told the Chandler Chamber of Commerce on May 12 that 47 percent of right-of-way still had to be acquired.
