Photo via Planning Center/City of Tucson
By Roland Murphy for AZBEX
A shuttered cement quarry and vacant land on the far east side of Tucson could transform into a master planned community with up to 1,187 single- and multifamily units under a new proposal.
The Planning Center has submitted a request to the City of Tucson on behalf of property owner CalPortland Company to rezone roughly 246 acres from Suburban Ranch and Heavy Industrial to Medium Density Residential for the Pantano River Planned Community. The Pantano Wash runs nearly through the middle of the proposed site two miles east of Houghton Road south of the Valencia Road alignment.
The Preliminary Development Plan outlines two phases of development for a residential subdivision that would ultimately provide a density of around 4.82 units/acre. Phase I would be on the western side of the wash, where the former quarry lies. Phase I development would deliver an estimated 657 multifamily units and 396 single-family lots. Phase II would have 134 slightly larger single-family lots and sits on undeveloped land. Development would be one- and two-story residences of up to 25 feet in height.
