Volume 30 • Number 4 January 25, 2023
The Voice of Marana, Oro Valley and Northwest Tucson
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La Canada self-storage gets P&Z nod
INSIDE
This Week
BY DAVE PERRY
Tucson Local Media Contributor
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HEALTH ....................... 9 TMC Mega Raffle celebrates 11 years
LIVEN UP ................... 14 Corey Spector makes his gigs interactive
CHOW ....................... 18 Southern Arizona flavors invite sampling at festival YOUTH ........................................... 6 HEALTH.......................................... 9 ARTS ............................................. 11 LIVEN UP ..................................... 14 PUZZLE/HOROSCOPES ............. 19 WORSHIP/CLASSIFIEDS ........... 20 MLS #22230362
An existing 6.2-mile path winds through the 202-acre Vistoso Trails Nature Preserve. The town of Oro Valley Parks & Recreation Department seeks to create a master plan that provides long-term protection of the site and recreational additions. (Town of Oro Valley Parks & Recreation/Submitted)
Town to host Vistoso Trails master plan open house BY KATYA MENDOZA
Tucson Local Media Staff
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he town of Oro Valley will host an open house on Wednesday, Jan. 25, for the community to review the Vistoso Trails Nature Preserve Master Plan. From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., community members
can stop by at the newly restored garage building at the historic Steam Pump Ranch, 10901 N. Oracle Road, to review community feedback collected in November. In collaboration with the consultation firm Sites Southwest, the town of Oro Valley Parks and Recreation department invited the community See TRAILS Page 6
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$12 million, 105,756-squarefoot, 34-foot-tall self-storage facility on 2.53 acres west of La Canada Drive and north of Tangerine Road has been given favorable recommendation by the Oro Valley Planning and Zoning Commission. It now goes to the Oro Valley Town Council for final consideration. If it goes ahead, the project may help ease chronic traffic congestion and create field space at Leman Academy of Excellence Oro Valley, the 1,100-student K-8 charter school just north of the parcel. The developer, South Carolina-based Centennial American Partners, would construct a north-south “spine” road along the west side of the property, connecting Leman directly to Tangerine and away from periodically clogged La Canada. And CAP would sell 3.94 acres closest to the charter school to Leman, which would use that land for sports fields. When Leman Oro Valley was built in 2016, “we didn’t buy enough land,” Mike Farley, co-founder of Leman Academy, told P&Z at its Jan. 10 meeting. The school lacks “a big enough play field for the kids.”
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