Diane Peters Writes To Oro Valley Mayor & Council--Re: Arroyo Grande (Responses Noted)

See Below for responses Diane received to her email.

The following letter was sent to Mayor Loomis & the Town Council, by Oro Valley neighbor Diane Peters.
So----What's Up??? If and when Diane gets any response, we trust it will be noted here.

Dear Mayor Loomis and Council,

I recently reviewed just 3 pages of the Arroyo Grande Conceptual Plan and I noticed something questionable on page 64. This shows a table stating that LaCholla Blvd. between Tangerine and Overton is scheduled for widening to 4 lanes between 2010-2012. This table implies that by 2012, LaCholla Blvd. will be able to handle the increased traffic that will be generated by adding another 16,000 homes and 38,000 more people to this area.

However, the RTA plan (which voters approved in 2006) states that this portion of LaCholla is not scheduled for widening until Phase IV of the RTA plan which would be between 2022-2026.

Since 2010 is just 2 years away as opposed to 2022 being 14 years away, I sent an e-mail to the Constituent Services Coordinator, Pat Klein, and asked her for clarification. She responded that she confirmed with the Town Engineer that the figures in the RTA plan are the correct ones.

Considering that I read only 3 pages of the AG Conceptual Plan and I found a huge error, one has to wonder just how many other errors are located throughout the remainder of this document. With this in mind, I ask that the Council postpone any decisions on annexing that land until we can be sure that the entire Arroyo Grande Conceptual Plan contains only factual information.

Sincerely,
Diane Peters
Oro Valley

Diane adds this postscript:
So, what is the actual plan? Build 16,000 homes in Arroyo Grande and have traffic jams on LaCholla Blvd. until 2022? Or is someone planning to secretly move up the date of the RTA LaCholla widening project to 2010 and catch all the residents in that area off-guard? We weren't expecting to hear the bulldozers outside our windows for at least another 14 years.
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Art,

I received responses from Mayor Loomis, Terry Parish and Barry Gillaspie regarding my e-mail about the error in the AG Conceptual Plan. Gillaspie responded that the first step is "the public process to amend the general plan of OV." The second step is "negotiations on a Preannexation Development Agreement.....to establish contractual restrictions." Parish responded that without the annexation, it could be developed "one wildcat subdivision at a time." He also said the Council "will keep working as you suggest to make the plan better." Loomis said only, "Thanks for your input."

Diane