A 634-home subdivision has broken ground on Papago Road — some 20 years after the government approved it.
Excavators, tractors and a water truck were hard at work this morning just north of Papago, between White and Amarillo Valley Roads, where the 184-acre Palomino Ranch subdivision will be located. The developer is Citrus and Lower Buckeye LLC.
Just west of Amarillo Creek and down the road from Verida 1, which began construction earlier this month, the development will be right across the street from the Raceway Bar and Grill strip mall, also the home of a future cannabis dispensary.
One block south at the future intersection of State Route 347 and Val Vista Road is Sunset Canyon, a 1,519-home subdivision approved Dec. 5.
Raceway owner Rand Del Cotto, also a Pinal County Planning and Zoning Commission member, recalled when the development was approved two decades ago.
“I remember I went to the planning and zoning meeting, and I supported it because it was going to be houses across the street from the Raceway,” Del Cotto said.
The project most recently came before the Pinal County Board of Supervisors during a Sept. 18 meeting where final plans were approved.
The subdivision is one in a Maricopa City Council series of pre-annexation agreements with owners of 15 parcels totaling 5,742 acres south and east of the city to provide fire protection to landowners and potential future residents.
Elias Weiss contributed reporting
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