Why I moved into Marana (much is gone now)

When we were looking where to buy our winter home, we viewed approx 75 homes in many AZ locations. We fell in love with Marana area at Camino De Manna. Main road was not traveled much, side roads were sand and had the most pristine Sonora desert vegetation you could imagine.

There were Coyotes, Havalinas, more rabbits than I have ever seen, bobcats and more. The train came by in the distance and you could hear the horn, I love train horns. People set up tables on the side of the main roads like a drive by fair, you could by mostly things you could not find at store it was quaint. Cars were for sale many street corners,. It was a hoot to drive around on the weekends and shop.

Well the great town of Marana passed ordinances to stop the street side vendors, all gone just new litter now. The then passed an ordinance that the trains could not blow their horns at crossings, protected or not. trains are quite until someone gets killed.

Mountain views from all direction were incredible, in respect to everyone else only one story homes were built to save the views. Now they are letting developers build 35 foot structures which they call two story homes, where  come from 35 feet is 3.5 stories.

We could not disturb more than 30% of our lot, which for us includes the road we own, The developers can strip the desert for these cluster developments........

They built a four lane highway right through the desert from I 10 to Dove Mountain for the developers. Now Camino De Manna is a high traffic cut through and Desert Falcon (which several homeowners and I own) has become a cross over.

We had to place signs and speed bumps at our expense to cut down the speeding traffic. and now you can hear the Jake breaks, speeding, thumping cars all day and night..... not to mention Harley's and two cycle screamers.

The developers that knew what was coming bought up all the land at cheap prices, even though it was zoned r-36 one acre lots, no problem the town want "roofs" so they will let them build cheap two story houses all along the new road...  I might add we checked the surrounding zoning before we purchased to make sure of what would be built around us. It sis not matter they will vote to let a developer make millions off our dismay with no problem.

 More graffiti, more crime, more traffic, for what,  the town has a huge police force, the fire departments are great but we pay separate for them. We pay for garbage pick up, we are on wells, and septic... so what the hell do they need all this new money for.

A few years ago in the middle of downtown Marana (joke more like the dump they call downtown) they built a state of the art huge opulent municipal building. and are currently filling it with as many bureaucrats that they can fit in it to make our life miserable.  So thanks Marana for the what are now memories in just 6 short years. They sit up on their dais looking down at us like gods and they act like it too.