This Monday: Oro Valley Public Forum on Transit Service

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We've listed this as an event on the left column of the blog.

If you have any interest at all in what's going to happen to our Cayote Run Transportation Service then you must attend this Monday's Oro Valley Public Forum on Transit Service.  The meeting starts at 6PM at Town Hall Council Chambers.

There are no advance materials posted regarding this forum. In fact, the forum was announced just a few days ago. Talk about getting little notice.

See you there...
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Clarification of PAD Is Now A Legal Question

Sorry for the delay in reporting this... We've been "out of pocket".
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John Musolf reports that the Oro Valley Town Council continued the PAD Amendment "clarification" of the word "may" for the parcel located on the Northwest Corner of Rancho Vistoso Blvd and Tangerine until the November 16, 2011 Council Meeting. There reason for this is that there is a legal question as to whether the Rancho Vistoso PAD, on page 49, prohibits residences on this parcel. If so, this discussion becomes not a clarification of wording but a request for a General Plan Amendment.
In addition:

• Because more than 20% of the residents formally complained in writing, Arizona Law requires a super majority of six of seven council people to vote in favor of the application.

• The applicant said they consider they already have approval to put "residences" on that property and had gone through the PAD change process more as a courtesy.

• The other major problem that was discussed repeatedly were the anticipated traffic problems regardless of entrances on either Tangerine or Woodburne.

Since this was a hearing, residents got three minutes to voice their concerns; but the Mayor allowed Dick May (Vistoso Partners) and Venture West all the time they wanted to talk about how "wonderful this development was". Talk about unfair. Also Steve Solomon was allowed to rant for about 15 minutes as well.
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Thanks for the report, John.