(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents property owners adjacent to the Phoenician who oppose having a public restroom located in their backyards without any public notice or discussion.)
By Holly Bock | 3TV/CBS 5
PHOENIX — In just 15 days, the Cholla hiking trail at Camelback Mountain will open to the public for the first time in more than two years. While this is welcome news for some, homeowners in the area worry about security and privacy. Now they are asking the city to work with them.
Gene Morrison built his family home right off of Camelback Mountain 20 years ago. The new Cholla Trailhead access point is directly behind his backyard off Invergordon Road. “It is frustrating and we’re very concerned over the impact it’ll have,” Morrison said. “We want to just able to get a more secure situation than what we anticipate will happen to us.”
Morrison says the trail is less than 75 feet away from his backyard. He says it attracts hundreds of hikers at all hours of the day. He says he and his neighbors are concerned about losing the sense of security they’ve always had at their home. “We are in talks with the city. We are trying to build a security fence which will also visually block the hikers from this trail,” Morrison said.
