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Summerfield residents in Surprise decry more potential traffic

Council approved Prose apartments north of Sun Village

Summerfield resident Jeannie Enders speaks during an Aug. 1 Surprise City Council meeting in opposition to a rezoning that cleared the way for Prose Mountain View Apartments to be built.

(City of Surprise)

Scottsdale-based Alliance Residential presented these updated renderings of its proposed Prose Apartments project in Surprise north of Sun Village and Summerfield.

(Submitted photo)

This aerial view map shows the Proposed site of the Prose apartment complex, just north of Sun Village and Summerfield and south of Grand Avenue.

(Courtesy city of Surprise)

Several residents of Summerfield at Litchfield showed their displeasure with the planned Prose Mountain View apartments down the street, believing this development will only add to the already high amount of traffic cutting through their development on the way to Litchfield Road.

They are bracing for those cars after the Surprise City Council approved a rezoning from commercial to high-density residential zoning on 13.2 acres on the southwest corner of Mountain View Boulevard and White Horse Trail. The council votes 6-1 in favor at its Aug. 1 meeting with councilman Patrick Duffy opposed.

Surprise Transportation Director Eric Boyles stated in an email that the plan for 260 units here will generate less trips than commercial or single family development would. Also developer Alliance Residential, based in Scottsdale, designed the apartments to funnel traffic away from White Horse Trail and Summerfield.

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