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Town panel praises mammoth apartment project BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor
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ne of the largest apartment projects planned in Gilbert near the San Tan Village Mall won kudos from a town panel for its overall design last week. Tuscany at Gabriella Pointe will be located on 39 acres of vacant farmland east of the southeast corner of Higley and Warner roads, near the Morrison Ranch and the Cooley Station North neighborhoods. “There are 17 buildings for the multifamily with 760 units,” Planning Manager Eva Cutro told the town Planning Commission,
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which acted as the Design Review Board at the Jan. 4 study session. “This is one of the largest multifamily developments by unit count within the town.” The buildings, which will be three- and four-story tall, contain 369 one-bedroom units, 286 two-bedroom units and 105 three-bedroom units. Project amenities include a clubhouse, sports recreational building, pools, tot lot, sand volleyball court, two pickleball courts, a tennis court, two dog parks, corn hole area, bocci ball court, and multiple ramadas. Other residential amenities include 184
fully enclosed garage parking spaces and 765 covered spaces. Total parking spaces provided on-site will be 1,383 spread through the property. The two entry points into the community will be directly from Warner Road with a dedicated right-turn lane to be installed and from a yet-to-be completed Martingale Road, a public thoroughfare that runs to the Gabriella Pointe development on the western side of the site, according to staff. Cutro said staff was concerned that the trees seemed to be evenly spaced through-
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Gilbert studio’s naked yoga fills a void, owner says BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor
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t a downtown studio in Gilbert people can find enlightenment through the practice of yoga – in the buff. Gilbert Yoga has been offering its Naked Yoga class since October 2021 but has recently begun promoting it heavily, according to owner Heather Promise. “Yoga and nakedness are not new,” Promise said. “But there’s a void in the market-
place and we saw that need and wanted to fill that gap for people.” Practicing flowing movements and deep breathing without clothes will help students to cultivate courage, develop emotional intelligence and strengthen their resolve, according to the class description. Promise isn’t the first or the only studio owner offering nude yoga in the Valley. Other places that offer it in-
Heather Promise said she screens participants in her naked yoga classes at her Gilbert studio to keep out perverts and voyeurs. (David Minton/GSN Staff
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