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Volume • Number July ,
The Voice of Marana, Oro Valley and Northwest Tucson
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Annexation requested for homes
This Week
BY DAVE PERRY
Tucson Local Media Contributor
A A long-idle bunkhouse, once home to Steam Pump ranch hands, has become a modern restroom facility. A second nearby bunkhouse is now a “green” room, with a shower installed. It’s a private place
landowner and a homebuilder are asking Oro Valley to annex a 36acre, undeveloped parcel at the southwest corner of La Canada Drive and Moore Road, two major roadways in northwest Oro Valley. Currently, the land owned by the Dewanne Daniela Hopson Estate is within Pima County. County zoning allows up to 10 homes, each on a 3.3-acre lot. Oro Valley would place similar “translational” zoning, also allowing 10 single-family homes on the parcel. Then if it is annexed the estate and homebuilder Insight Homes would ask Oro Valley to allow development of one-story homes on 1-acre lots, up to 34 homes in total. Insight Homes’ owner Mike Jones, who
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FEATURES ................ 23 Teachers find bargains, treasures at Treaures for Teachers
Town of Oro Valley staff members Matt Jankowski, Jon Schumacher and Dylan Hiatt chat on the porch at Steam Pump Ranch’s “barbecue” building, named for the iconic, now-restored and inoperable barbecue oven at right. (Dave Perry/Contributor)
FEATURES ................ 24 Birding festival wings its way to Marana. HOT PICKS.....................................4 SPORTS.........................................10 HOROSCOPE/CROSSWORD.......27 WORSHIP/CLASSIFIEDS ........... 28 MLS #22314556
New life for ranch buildings BY DAVE PERRY
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Tucson Local Media Contributor
hree old buildings at Oro Valley’s historic Steam Pump Ranch have been cleaned, patched, re-roofed, air-conditioned, painted and adapted for new public uses.
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