Apache Junction City Council on Feb. 7 is to consider removing a federal patent easement for the Wagon Wheel Road alignment from Cactus Wren Street to Scenic Street for the purpose of future development.
The meeting begins at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the council chambers at 300 E. Superstition Blvd.
The current setbacks are to remain in place until utility easements are extinguished. Wagon Wheel Road in that section is unpaved, Project Engineer Raquel Schatz said at the council’s Jan. 17 meeting.
“When I say alignment it means that if you were to continue a road all the way out — we’re kind of like on a grid system — that’s an alignment. It’s not particularly a street yet but it just carries out the roadway alignment,” she said.
Michael and Laurette Brigner, owners of the property, filed an application for the extinguishment on May 1, according to a written staff report.
There is a block wall that surrounds their property that they wish to keep permanently, with a design of future development on private property, it states.
“The applicant wishes to do this to put future development on their property and to do it the right way the first time. So if they wish to build a garage or a barbecue or something else in the back of the yard there that abuts Wagon Wheel that they know that at least the roadway has been extinguished,” Schatz said to the council.
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Meet Richard Richard Dyer has worked at Independent Newsmedia Inc. USA since 1987, starting his career in Apache Junction as a copy editor and being promoted over the years to work as the editor of the Mesa Independent, news services editor for the East Valley office in Apache Junction, managing editor for the East Valley office, news services editor for the East Valley office and eventually also for the newspapers at INI’s then-Chandler office, managing editor again and as a news editor covering Apache Junction/Gold Canyon and Queen Creek. He helped start the Florence Independent while the news editor covering Apache Junction and Mesa news. In January 2023, he became associate managing editor for the East Valley newspapers and in August 2023 became managing editor for the East Valley newspapers of Chandler/Tempe, Gilbert, Queen Creek, Florence, Mesa and Apache Junction/Gold Canyon, while also reporting on Mesa and Apache Junction/Gold Canyon.
Community: Since 2009, he has worked as a volunteer to design The Blue Guitar Magazine, Blue Guitar Jr. magazine and Unstrung magazine, which are projects of The Arizona Consortium for the Arts; and since 2014, has been overseeing the art submissions.
Education: University of Arizona with a master of arts in journalism and a bachelor of science in agricultural communication. Also continuing education at Mesa Community College in welding in a metal art sculpture class.
Random fact: Saw his first tornado on May 31, 2010, which was classified as an EF-2, as part of a stormchasing tour group.
Hobbies: He is an artist of welded-steel sculptures, selling his artwork at juried and non-juried art shows.
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