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Sunday, October 9, 2022
Apartment clash prompts developer to pull rezone bid BY MARK MORAN Tribune Staff Writer
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eveloper Jason Barney had visions of creating a welcoming new residential area right across the street from the new and expanded Founder’s Park in Queen Creek, featuring a cluster of new townhomes. “The housing would have been facing the park – kind of a ‘neighborhood-y’ vibe to it,” said Barney, part of the same family that has been farming and developing land here since
School district COMMUNITY .........16 shares spotlight as mail ballots arrive
the 1940s. He also planned an apartment building and an assisted living facility that town officials said would add 662 new units to an area where it already had okayed 495 units. But just a few hours after an early morning meeting of the Town Economic Development Commission last week, Barney withdrew his application to rezone roughly 36 acres at the corner of Ryan and Signal Butte roads from Industrial to Neighborhood. “I got a good enough read on the mindset
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of the town on the politics of the town and they’re not ready to support that at this point.” Barney said. “There’s plenty of concern in a lot of communities about getting too much multi family,” he said, citing a memo that the proposed project developer received from Sarah Clark, senior planner and project manager for the Town of Queen Creek. “Staff is not supportive of the proposed den-
see BARNEY page 3
Interfaith food drive yields big bounty.
BY MARK MORAN Tribune Staff Writer
SPORTS ................... 22 Arizona high school football on nation’s radar.
COMMUNITY.........................16 BUSINESS...............................18 OPINION..................................20 SPORTS....................................22 GET OUT..................................23 CLASSIFIEDS.........................25
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ueen Creek Unified School District shares part of the spotlight as early ballots for the Nov. 8 General Election hit local early voters’ mailboxes later this week. Two separate issues involving the district appear on the lengthy ballot, where the election marquee includes a contest for the next governor of Arizona, all statewide offices, a U.S. Senate seat, local representatives to the Legislature and Congress and 10 propositions. In the school district, three candidates are vying for two seats on the five-member gov-
see ELECTION page 10
Todd Kisicki of Mesa, left, and Nic Feinstein of Queen Creek have opened a new attractionfor lovers of the hugely popular outdoor game cornhole by opening Hole 9 Yards, apparently the nation’s first indoor venue for the game. It took a long time coming for Kisicki, who with his wife has had a business for several years supplying cornhole equipment to organizers of festivals and other outdoor gatherings. Read the story on page 18. (David Minton/Tribune Staff Photographer)
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