Amid all of last week’s discussion of past and future elections in Maricopa County, the county’s Board of Supervisors also approved a major housing development at a regular meeting.
Without discussion, the board unanimously approved final plats for three phases of a housing development known as Granite Vista.
Located near the southwest corner of Olive Avenue and Cotton Lane, the three phases are a short distance west of Loop 303.
The three phases don’t have a total acreage or square footage listed in staff documents. The already-developed area, which still includes some farm land, is in an unincorporated area of Waddell near Glendale’s western city limits.
The applicant/owner is Jason Burm. Kimley-Horn and Elliott Homes are the developers.
There are 24 total tracts in the three phases. One phase has 57 residential lots and 10 tracts in the R1-8 rural district planned area development and R1-6 RUPD PAD zoning districts.
Another phase has 100 residential lots and 10 tracts in R1-6 RUPD PAD and R1-7 RUPD PAD zoning districts. The other phase has 60 residential lots and four tracts in the R1-7 RUPD PAD district.
The developers are looking to continue expansion in an area that is already the site of some other large-scale, highly contested developments.
In June, the board is set to hear a case involving the developers of White Tank Foothills, who want to develop a phase of homes that is still large despite the proposed number having been cut in half.
Jason W. Brooks is a News editor for the Daily Independent and the Chandler Independent.
He covers the Chandler area for both yourvalley.net and the monthly print edition while writing for and assisting in the production of the Daily Independent.
Brooks is a well-traveled journalist who has documented life in small American communities in nearly all U.S. time zones.
Born in Washington, D.C. and raised there and in suburban Los Angeles, he has covered community news in California, New Mexico, Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska and northern Arizona.
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