Volume 30 • Number 9 March 1, 2023
The Voice of Marana, Oro Valley and Northwest Tucson
www.explorernews.com
Self-storage project can proceed
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This Week
BY DAVE PERRY
Tucson Local Media Contributor
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Pistol Hill Prologue climb in Vail on Friday, moves on to a 19.9-mile per lap road race in Sahuarita on Saturday, and concludes with the 4.2-mile per lap circuit race in Oro Valley on Sunday. Each day offers “completely different types of racing,” said Oro Valley resident and competitive cyclist Bekah Collins, who’s assisting race director Marco Colbert with publicity. In Collins’ view, the circuit race is “the most fun to watch. It’s more technical, more high speed, more action.” Oro Valley officials believe the Tucson Bicycle Classic can help bring more speed,
evelopment of a 105,756square-foot, 34-foot tall Extra Space self-storage building with 534 units can proceed west of La Cañada and north of Tangerine, after the Oro Valley Town Council gave its unanimous OK to a conditional use permit for the facility on Feb. 15. The building, which would include a 4,000-square-foot retail/office space on its southeast corner, would sit on 2.53 acres within the Miller Ranch development. The ground is zoned for technology park uses. Self-storage is an allowed use within that zone. Leman Academy of Excellence Oro Valley, located north of the site, would purchase the adjacent, undeveloped 3.94 acres, also zoned for technology park use, to use as sports fields. Leman co-founder Mike Farley committed to council that Leman would not build more classroom space on the property. “No, absolutely not,” said Farley, noting Leman considers itself “at capacity” on the La Cañada campus. “You want that in writing, we’ll give it to you. We won’t build another building. ... We will
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A contestant in the 2022 Tucson Bicycle Classic exulted upon victory at the event’s circuit race. This year’s TBC circuit race comes to Oro Valley on Sunday, March 5. (Kathleen Dreier Photography/Contributor)
Pro cycling comes to Oro Valley BY DAVE PERRY
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his Sunday, March 5, 600 professional and amateur bicyclists are going to ride circles around Oro Valley’s Naranja Park. Twelve circles, in the case of the national-caliber and foreign professionals, who’ll pedal 50 miles as fast as they can. The Oro Valley Circuit Race presented by Rutledge Dental is the final leg of a competitive, threestage race comprising the USA Cycling-sanctioned, 35th annual Tucson Bicycle Classic. Professional women and men cyclists are competing for $10,000 in total prize money. The 2023 classic begins with a 3.5-mile
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