Casa Grande resident James Stilwell speaks during Thursday’s lively Planning and Zoning Commission meeting. Stilwell was part of a group of residents in opposition to an extended stay hotel planned for Ninth and Colorado streets. Via City of Casa Grande/YouTube
By Jodie Newell | Casa Grande Dispatch
The city Planning and Zoning Commission approved a 117-room extended-stay hotel known as Everhome Suites at Colorado and Ninth streets despite staunch opposition from nearby residents.
There were extraordinary scenes on Thursday evening after commissioners voted 4-3 in favor of a major site plan. People loudly yelled “shame on you” and “you guys don’t care about your residents or property at all” to commissioners as they slowly filed out of the council chambers at City Hall.
Yuma applicant Dahl, Robins & Associates, on behalf of Speckert Gift Trust and Bob Speckert of Las Vegas, was granted approval to build a three-story, 57,821-square-foot hotel on about 3 acres.
