Our July 22 "Question Of The Week" asked you, our bloggers, to comment on whether or not you thought spending $160 million to build the Naranja Town Site was a good idea.
Our respondents were emphatic in their dislike for this town site in terms of spending all this money at once or instituting a property tax to pay for it. Or the fact that the site will use lots of water, something we've been told is a "no no".
Some respondents suggested that Oro Valley sell that site, noting that our current parks are underused. One suggests that if we need a "theater for the performing arts", one of the wishful items planned for the site, then we ought to try to do something in conjunction with the Amphi School Distrct.
Several of our respondents noted that the site will further increase the costs of operating Oro Valley since the $160 million price tag doesn't include the huge maintenance and operating costs for this complex.
Your responses demonstrated clear, resourceful, sensible thinking. Something that Mayor Paul Loomis has not demonstrated in his push to "go for it all."
There are other ways to build this site, as pointed out in an earlier blogger Evan Wise noted in a previous posting.
Click here to read excepts from our respondents.
And click on the link under "Issues We Are Following" located on the left panel to read all of our postings on the Naranja Town Site.
