By Jay Taylor | InMaricopa
The city council Tuesday unanimously approved a Major General Plan Amendment changing the land use from undesignated land use to Master Planned Community for 995 acres at Santa Cruz Ranch, located at the northeast corner of N. Anderson and W. Miller roads. The other 891 acres of the total 1,886-acre development already are classified as a Master Planned Community.
The approval was not without opposition. As with the two meetings of the city Planning & Zoning Commission, residents of the area turned out to speak against the project, with objections ranging from train traffic potentially blocking emergency vehicles from the community to water use and encroachment of growth into existing rural areas to the developing in a current flood plain.
