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July 7, 1977,The Arizona Territorial,Page 3
Rutted roads may not be paved
More than a year after it
the roads problem "it's same story they'd gotten were actually worse than The plans met opposition be easier to enforce the
,
last surfaced before the been put in limbo." several times before. they considered ac- from many residents, roads."
ValleyTown Council,a Hufault said that the Since the developer, the ceptable. primarily because of the Roof said drivers using
Oro
project plan to pave
badlyrutted could be revived if now-defunct Lusk Cor- However, an interview proposed width--24 feet of the roads drive either very
roads in the
Shadow some of the residents in the poration,had not paved the with Postal Serivce blacktop -- which the ob- slowly or extremely fast;
Mountains
Estates East area "get to suffering bad roads to Pima County Supervisor Al Hammonds jectors said would turn the latter allows drivers to
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subdivision is apparently enou
h." standards, they had never revealed that the Postal Riviera Drive, the main ``bounce over the yops of
g
dead. The road issue came been accepted by the Service has "no intention" thoroughfare in the sub- the bumps."
"It's been killed," said back before the Town county for maintenance of cutting house-to-house division into a race track. The last point, leaving
subdivision resident Peggy Council last summer when That width meets the the affair in limbo was a
Gambino. "The roads just several residents of theminimum road safety result of survey conducted
get worse with every rain." subdivision appeared at a requirements allowed in by resident Roy Mattson,
M e a n w h i l e, J oh n budget hearing demandingc) ruc) Oro Valley. released in May.
Hufault, who had been a to know if road im- Speeds are already Of 58 questionnaires
leader in the attempt to provements for Shawdowalley rather high in the sub- mailed out, only 18 were
have roads paved said that, Mountains East had been division, according to Oro returns,and,of those 28, 10
although he and his wife included in the budget. Valley Police Chief Fred favored an improvement
have "gotten away" from The residents heard the Roof, who pointed out that district, while eight op-
- the fastest speed hes posed it.
‘.•. clocked through the area Signatures of 28 property
Citizens
purposes. deliveries to the sub- has been approximately 40 owners on a petition would
() V miles per hour. be necessary to establish
When it incorporated, division. Roof dismissed the ob- the distirct.
Oro Valley took over only "The roads would have to jections from those who In a final memo with the
those roads which the be practically impassable geared that wide paving
countyaccepted. before we will cut off P g questionnaire results,
P , would create a race track Mattson said that two
more watchfulCompounding the service, he said. "We've by saying, "The one who
roblem was a rumor that had no complaints from our Y g' alternatives were available
P speeds through there now to the residents.
the U.S.Postal Service was carriers."
would speed through there They could try to get the
people P
A drunken driving arrest from eo le re orting considering cutting off The residents decided to when it's paved." town to waive the street
and several reports of strange vehicles. house-to-house mail get an improvement
break-ins marred an "They might have led to delivery to the subdivision. district formed, and the "It would be safer for width requirement, or they
otherwise quiet week for something more serious," A Postal Service official council directed Town everybody," he added. "It could organize a patching
the Oro Valley Police Dept. Roof said, adding
that in told the TERRITORIAL at Engineer James Kriegh to wouldn't be safer for effort "and do the work
week. • manycases the reports the time that the roads prepare engineering plans. speeders, because it would ourselves."
last ee po ,
George L. Sehrenkamp involved groundskeepers i
of Avenidas del Las at the Country Club.
Americas,was arrested for Speeding is still a
allegedly driving while problem in the town, as
intoxicated July 3. officers cited several
The break-in reports, persons in the 70 miles-per-
none of which were hour range on Oracle Road.
burglaries,were a result of The fastest speed clocked
Oro Valley's new Neigh- this week however was 64
borhood Watch program, MPH in a 25 MPH zone.
according to Oro Valley "The message on our
Police Chief Fred Roof. `Radar Enforced' signs
Roof saidthe department seems to be falling on blind ,
answered 14 calls this week eyes," Roof said.
M 1 . t d
by County PZ panel
By WALT NETT i Rose Silver explained the opinion, saying that to
The County Planning and Zoning Commission, un- require developers to donate school sites would amount
moved by the Marana School District's plea for to "taking property without due process of law — en-
assistance,voted last week to reject the Marana School forced condemnation."
Board's proposal to require developers to provide Part of the problem, she added, is that the county
school sites. would have no way to guarantee that a school would be
The decision,which is supported by an opinion from built.
the County Attorney's office, came as part of the California law requires that developers provide
discussion on Wood Brothers' request to rezone some school sites, she said.
80 acres at Thornydale and Cortaro Farms Road from However,the school district receiving the site must
SR (one home per four acres) to CR-4 (low density build a school on the site within a specified period of
multi-family). time,
and if a school is not built within the allotted
The commission approved the Wood Brothers timeperiod, the developer may purchase the land for
request by a 6-4 vote. .the price at which he sold it,Mrs.Silver added.
The commission also continued a public hearing on In other matters last week, the commission:
the Tortolita Area Plan until July 26, and continued a -- voted 8-0 to approve a request to rezone ap-
pair of proposals on the Rancho Vistoso project until proximately six acres from SR to CR-1 (one home per
September.
In an interview Thursday, Deputy County Attorney (Continued on page 2)
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Marana
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acre) on Verdi Way north of Overton Road;
— voted 9-1 to approve a request to rezone ap-
proximately 11 acres from CR-1-CR-4 at the southwest
corner of Oracle Road and Chula Vista Road;
— voted 7-0 to approve a request to rezone ap-
proximately .36 acres from Sr to Cr-1 on Northern
Avenue just south of Hardy Road; ._
-- voted 6-0 to set a proposal from Marved Cod-
struction for public hearing next month. The proposal
seeks to rezone some 640 acres at Linda Vista Road and
Camino de Oeste from SR to CR-3 (three homes per
acre), CR-5 (high density multi-family), CB-1
(business) and TR (transitional);
--and continued a preliminary hearing on a Marved
proposal to rezone 640 acres.at Orange Grove Road and
First Avenue from CR-1 to CR-2(two homes per acre),
TR and RVC (Rural Village Center).
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Page 4,The Arizona Territorial,July 7, 1977
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Editorials 'Dub Is er,
CQ[fler
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plan OracleRoadwideningAft
Jimmy Carter received the expected pat
a most w improvement on the head from the liberal press for his
decision to cancel the B-1 bomber program.
The editorial comment from the liberal
It somehow makes all the waiting seem road, one that causes even good drivers to boys we have read so far is almost mushy in
worthwhile. wince at the almost regular near-misses. its praise of Mr. Carter's wise and
The announcement three weeks ago that a It's a bad road, not wide enough for one courageous (their terms, not mine)
design hearing on the widening of Oracle school bus to pass another, much less semi- decision.
Road is scheduled for July 13 at Canyon del trailers. And well that segment of the press should
Oro High School was probably music to Dangerous situations are almost corn- be estatic. It represents a great victory for
many ears. monplace on the road,the most recent being those who insist that this country has
For it indicates that construction cannot an overturned gasoline double-trailer nothing to fear from Russia. The B-1 was
be too much farther down the road,-if you'll several nionths ago. unnecessary, they cried, because the
pardon the pun. Widening that road is a project long Russians are going to behave in the future
The stretch of Oracle Road under con- overdue. like good neightbors should.
sideration runs from Ina Road to The TERRITORIAL heartily endorses the Which is pure and unadulterated balony,
Tangerine. project, and hopes that the Northwest will of course.
At present it's a treacherous stretch of be out in full support July 13. The gents in the Kremlin must be having
a huge belly laugh -- as well they should.
Comment After all, they have sat on their hands and
watched us cripple our military posture to
• the point where it might well be worth
Russian consideration of
Fl rs t A v e n v e co n s t r u c t i o n a grand scale som placenin the worldorld action on
The fact that Mr. Carter, in canceling the
1w/n r f k +1, a fr ��n n ��anin � program, warned the Kremlin that if they
didn't behave he would not hesitate to
reinstate the program makes little sense.
Idle words that probably induced more
laughter around the Kremlin halls. Mr.
)r Carter knows well and good that he has
Y. killed the program once and for all. The B-1
Ll, is a part of our defense posture designed to
�t keep the Russians in line. To eliminate a
vital element of that posture is to invite
:y military trouble. As a paper program to be
10 cranked up when the Kremlin makes
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