By Mark Carlisle | Daily Independent
West Valley residents are voicing their opposition to a proposed housing and industrial development near them that is seeking annexation into Glendale.
The residents protested the development in written statements read at a Glendale City Council meeting last week chiefly because they believe the houses will be packed too densely to blend in with the surrounding neighborhoods and because it will create a Glendale city island surrounded by county land. Both concerns had been voiced by Glendale Council members in prior discussions of the proposed annexation.
Eight comments were read into the record from individuals or groups from the neighborhoods surrounding the property, on either county land or from Litchfield Park — some of the addresses around the property have the 85340 Litchfield Park ZIP code but are not actually part of the city about 4 miles east of the involved area.
