By Paul Maryniak | Ahwatukee Foothills News
Foothills Paseo II residents’ hopes of stopping a controversial plan for a QuikTrip gas station at the only entrance to their subdivision may be on life-support.
The owner of the lot at the southeast corner of 40th Street and Cottonwood Way may be undertaking a legal end-run that would not require city Planning and Development Department involvement, closing an avenue that residents had hoped to use to stop the gas station from going in.
“We believe the developer is making revisions to the plans so he won’t need modifications to the zoning stipulations and therefore won’t need to go through the Hearing Officer process in order to develop,” said planning department spokeswoman Angie Holdsworth. “They haven’t withdrawn their request yet.”
