By Monica D. Spencer | InMaricopa
Maricopa City Council members last night held off again on approving a contentious land sale near Copper Sky. It was a vanishingly rare display of friction on the dais.
The issue was discussed — and tabled — for a second time in as many months by the council following a 30-minute discussion and a nearly hour-long impromptu executive session.
At issue was the contract language.
The previous contract came under fire last month for — like at least one other Maricopa development — about-facing on most or all the features of the development that ever made it attractive to the public.
In this case, that meant axing the stipulation of a 100,000-plus-square-foot hospital complex with a surgery center and replacing it with a medical office building or a basic hospital with the same services as Exceptional Community Hospital.
