As development moves further north in Phoenix, the city is planning which parcels of land it will want to purchase from the state to include in the Sonoran Mountain Preserve.
Much of the focus area will be northwest Phoenix, abutting the Lake Pleasant Regional Park, because that area was not in the city of Phoenix when the Sonoran Preserve Master Plan was created in 1998.
“There were a lot of areas that just weren’t considered for preserve because they weren’t in the city limits,” Jarod Rogers, deputy director of Phoenix Parks Department’s Natural Resources Division, told the Desert View Village Planning Committee last week.
