By Howard Fischer | Pinal Central
PHOENIX — Developers in the Phoenix area want lawmakers to alter 43-year-old laws that restrict construction in areas like the one in around the edge of Pinal County without adequate water supply.
In a press release Thursday, the Home Builders Association of Central Arizona is not disputing that the state Department of Water Resources concluded that areas around Buckeye and Queen Creek do not have the 100-year assured water supply required under the 1980 Groundwater Act to allow new subdivisions. That led the agency, under the direction of Gov. Katie Hobbs, to stop issuing permits for new home construction in the areas.
Now the organization says legislators need to remove what it calls a “moratorium on home building in the most affordable parts of the Valley,’’ saying the move is leading to rapidly escalating home prices.
