The sale of a small parcel of land ate up some time at last week’s Maricopa County Board of Supervisors meeting.
The board eventually voted to approve the sale of 1.4 acres of excess land along Happy Valley Road, between Lake Pleasant Parkway and 107th Avenue. The triangle-shaped parcel is between the road and two walls that surround a housing development.
Sugar Show LLC is buying the parcel from the county for $160,000.
Supervisor Clint Hickman’s District 4 is where the parcel is located. It’s on a county island in the Peoria area.
Hickman had several questions for Alex Smith of the county’s Real Estate Department.
“There seems to be a little bit of an issue,” Hickman said, without articulating what the issues were. He questioned Smith on proper advertisement of an auction for the site and what the County Attorney’s office advised about the sale.
“The County Attorney’s Office advised that the sale proceed,” Smith said. “The bidder attended the auction and followed all the statutes.”
Smith said a sign for the auction of the land was “clearly” posted on the property for about three weeks and could be seen from the driveway.
Maricopa County is one of the largest counties in the U.S. by both population and land area. Its 4.4 million residents are more than 25 states, and its 9,200 square miles of land — almost 6 million acres — is more than the area of four U.S. states.
Also approved at the meeting were several items related to the Zanjero Trails development, located in an unincorporated area near Buckeye. The county also quickly passed an easement abandonment in the North Phoenix area, near Parsons Road and 19th Avenue.
The board also improved new traffic controls on the north side of Deer Valley Road. There will be no stopping, standing or parking anytime from 135th Avenue to Deer Valley Access Road.
A hearing for a Carefree Highway property owner was postponed. The owner has applied for a special use permit for an RV and boat storage business.
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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