Government at its best

Well some time ago I asked the state attorney general to investigate the meetings held with developers in secrete by the councilors. I received a letter today stating exactly  what I thought they would find, No Violation was found....... no surprise to me.. one government entity protecting another.

I have been following the tens of thousands the town is spending on media to convince us it is Our Town, I speak of the "Your Town" campaign. It is not our town it is the DEVELOPERS town, they run the politicians and can get anything they want anywhere they want.....

The town will end up being loaded with abandoned low income housing and homes that become rental units and foreclosures,  oh say like Honea Heights.

Check out this pristine development by the mayors family

Marana Sucks, Zoning is suposedly for a reason

Through the years, when the government decided to pass zoning regulations, many people stated it was none of their business what we did with land we owned.. Well over the years it became the norm, zoning seemed to play a roll in keeping neighborhoods in sync for the most part.

We all rely on surrounding zoning to buy land. It may be for your biggest investment, your home that you will pay for monthly for most of your life.. or for a ranch to live a rural  life style. Once you are imbedded in your property and have committed to an area, it is hard to move at the drop of a pin when corrupt developers and your elected officials conspire to force their vision down your throat.

They have the power and the developers the money to cause the officials in some manor to agree to let them rape the neighborhoods. So to rely on the regulations they convinced us are for our good is a false premises. The will change it at the drop of a pin to let a developer build what they want to bring in more tax revenue that they DO NOT NEED..

Marana Sucks Twin Peaks Corridor Study

This link will give you a copy of the "Your Town" Twin Peaks Corridor Study, They are concerned with color, concealment, light reflection, signage.... nothing about lot size, quality of construction, two story homes, density, traffic, preservation of desert..... Such crap.... we spoke for some time on this and it was passed no discussion... tells me it is being discussed out of public hearing..... http://www.calameo.com/read/0025025290eafbd706346

Oh by the way, how come everything always is "Your Town" but they will not listen to us???????????

Marana Sucks the vision of the mayor

Please see this article where it states "the need for smart planning" is required. This is a joke , what they have been approving is criminal at best.
http://explorernews.com/news/marana/article_a2f2e864-c743-11e3-84eb-001a4bcf887a.html

Marana Sucks New Vistas off Camnio De Manna

Driving down Camino De Manna toward Twin Peaks, It was in the past that you could view the mountains from this point. Not so much with the new vision of the town.

Marana Sucks Tax money spent on false advertising

The town has released it's "Your Town " propaganda video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVn9q0tkUfA

It starts with a vista view of the sun setting against the mountains

Well the cluster home developments right at the roadways makes it looks more like this

Why did they even spend the money to make the video. If the town is as vibrant as they say, what do they need to advertise for ?

This is more what it is beginning to look like.....

They show the beautiful desert and water crossing during horseback riding, the hiking, the old ruins.... then one split second of the homes being built destroying the same thing they are promoting.

I am not against development, but I am strongly opposed to the zoning changes from R-36 to cluster homes... High density housing is bad for the community...

They suckered us to move here with the beauty.... the web stated all the land around us was to be built out similarly... then with out discussion they allowed 260 homes some two story to be built in our neighborhood even with complete opposition.....  Criminal attitude and rapping the value of our homes we have poured our life savings into.

Marana Sucks, Below is an article on Marana Chamber of Commerce

This article says developers are flocking to town because it is safe, business friendly and good schools. Well good for them, because when they complete their cluster homes and make millions, while the existing home owner suffer from the massive influx of people, all of the reason they came to the town will BE GONE !!!

The schools will be overloaded causing great expenditures for maintenance, and of course  new schools will be needed and County taxes will increase to build them. The so called safe area will be over run by quality of live issues, graffiti, mail box break ins (already epidemic in area), speeding ( already bad in the area and they can do nothing to stop it). Not to mention the break ins during the day time.

Now I am not against development, I was a developer, But the thing is I bought land that was zoned for what I wanted to develop. The criminal developers around here buy land zoned one thing and know they can get it changed to what ever they want no matter how much opposition there is from the existing home owners that have spent their life savings to live a semi rural life style.

It is a viscous plan  they have created, retail will not come with out many homes. Understood, Who says we need a strip center and gas station on every street????? Why do we need a Premium Outlet mall, are we going to shop there, NO it will draw people from allover the area to our roads to speed and clog them up,more stop lights, more cops, bright signs, noise.

The article states the Town is looking for ways to bring in the infrastructure so the developers do not have to... OH GREAT we pay for the infrastructure to ruin our life style....

There can be a happy medium if the dam Town was not so corrupt toward developers and so dam hell bent on being, oh say PHOENIX. If we  wanted to live like that I would have bought in Phoenix.

Oh by the way if you want to see what Marana will look like soon, drive down Houghton or look to the right on I10 out that way..pretty ugly....
They talk of the Towns strategic plan, well who's vision is it,,,, not the residence, it is the vision of  Hoynea, and his cronies that are all in business that rely on housing, real estate, insurance, ect.

http://azstarnet.com/news/local/northwest/marana-chamber-chief-talks-plans/article_425de413-d590-5667-9a82-dfe4d0c19467.html

Marana Sucks, Proud of the crap housing they approved, one on top of another around custom homes and ranchers.

The town appears, as can be expected, proud of what they are doing to destroy the chance to make Marana different from, Oh lets say Oro Valley, Phoenix, house on top of house, two story home destroying the vistas, wild life destruction. For what, Developers and retailers, More tax money to buy toys for the town? Money to shoot town videos to promote themselves.? Money for another grand complex Heritage Park Arena?  http://azstarnet.com/news/local/northwest/marana-housing-market-taking-off/article_6e2fdd10-9f18-576e-80e9-360b008f42ef.html

Marana Sucks desert tortoise not protected

200 armed officer have a Nevada ranch surrounded to remove their cattle from land they have used for decades to graze because they are protecting the tortoise,,, Marana approves cluster homes in a habitat where they are known to be for developers to make millions....

http://freebeacon.com/issues/last-man-standing/

Marana Sucks, This one slipped through due to no way of knowing what is in the pipes

Due to the towns refusal to have placards posted on the site of proposed zoning changes, this abomination slipped through the process. It is at Camino De Oesta and Tangerine on the west side of Tangerine. It also was pristine Sonoran desert zoned for large lots.

These are going to be cluster homes on 6000 sf lots with two story homes again... Total disregard for surrounding property owners and the desert. Just bulldoze it all for developer profits. It is criminal what the town is doing to this area.

Marana Sucks This is what it felt like after Marana approved two cluster home developments in our area.

This is what it felt like trying to be heard in the town of Marana Planning commission and Council, While they did not come right out and tell us to go to hell, they sure made it known that that is the way they felt by sneaking behind our back meeting with the developers the day of the Public Hearing.

 http://www.conservativeoutfitters.com/blogs/news/13278537-video-not-an-april-fools-joke-texas-commissioner-tells-white-citizens-to-go-to-hell

I have spoke on this circumvention of law in previous posts. May need to make the state aware of this ploy.

One can loose respect (spelled correctly unlike Obama) in grass roots politics the same way we loose respect for Washington if they are unresponsive to our concerns. In our case it was 99% of  those who spoke in opposition to 1 person who spoke in favor of the developments and he was not even from Marana but in the city of Tucson..

So if you can not get the local politicians to listen to you, what do we do, recall ????? Spend my hard earned resources to oppose them in elections ???? I think recall is the best idea. they are responsive to MONEY of the developers.  It does not show up n their campaign reports as donations to their campaign so where are the repositories.

And why did they have to circumvent the public hearing laws by meeting no more than two at a time behind closed doors in the Town building the day of the hearing ?????????? It is done so no possible quorum call is published for the public to know of them meeting that is why.....

It was revealing when one councilor stated in the hearing that "the Mayor said he was not going to vote for anything under a 2 RAC for the area.. cluster homes on 6000 sf lots.....  that is how i found out about their closed door private meeting with the developers.....

Not in the spirit of representing the public, but in making the developer very rich !!!!!!!!!!

Marana Sucks Dig the dead and history for stores

Found in new Premium Outlet area just down from the cluster home sites

http://azstarnet.com/canal-pit-houses-from-up-to-years-ago-found-under/article_68364cf8-fe11-54c3-a72d-0e16553aded4.html

Marana Sucks A closer look at their Vision for our neighborhood

This is a map of the current raping of the neighborhood and the potential future high density area that they would like to see developed into unwanted high density cluster homes. 

This is the Preserves at Twin Peaks on a Satellite map so you can see how big it was. It has been cut back by 40 acres due to a partner pulling out, reason unknown.  

Notice at the bottom of this map is what they did to the Continental  Ranch, this is their vision for the Twin Peaks corridor, It is being forced on us by developers and the council.  

Marana Sucks Continental Rach

Very depressing day, I took a ride down Coachline road in Continental Ranch. This is off Twin Peaks road past the Santa Cruz river. It is what they are going to do to Twin Peaks corridor.

House on top of house forever... It sucks

Marana Sucks Which do you like

This

Or this
(these two area are to be bulldozed for the development of high density homes)

This is Decker site will have tow story homes soon where it was zoned for one home per acre 

This is the De Manna site that will house 199 homes many two story are to be built where it was zoned for one home per acre.