Its been 30 years since Catalina State Parks opened in the Coronado National Forest north of Oro Valley.

Oro Valley council voted unanimously on March 20 to direct staff to clean up ambiguous language relating to the town’s Environmentally Sensitive Lands (ESL) regulations.

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Brendan Burns, 33

The Oro Valley Town Council has taken action on three amendments to its General Plan that could mean an increase in the number of high-density residential units available in the town.

At the Oro Valley Town Council meeting on Jan. 18, residents continued to express concern regarding the development of a luxury apartment complex near Tangerine Road and Rancho Vistoso Boulevard, even after it was announced the applicant had withdrawn the proposal.

The Town of Oro Valley is accepting applications from residents interested in serving on a board or commission. Appointments start on Jan. 1. 

The Oro Valley Planning and Zoning Commission will conduct a public hearing tonight on a planned area development amendment to Parcel 7-1 (the northwest corner of Tangerine and Rancho Vistoso).

The Marana Town Council approved a rezoning request on Aug. 16, to allow AMEC Earth and Environmental, Inc. to move forward with custom-lot development plans.

Saying they felt better informed at their June 15 meeting, members of the Oro Valley Town Council reversed their earlier decision to set lower height restrictions on St. Mark Catholic Church.

The Oro Valley Town Council voted on May 18 to take another look at a proposed rezoning measure that would allow St. Mark Catholic Church to exceed set height limitations to build a new facility for a growing congregation.

Marana residents have received their mail-in ballots, and the polls will be open May 17. While our town council elections were decided in March, there are still a couple of important matters to decide in this month’s General Election: Marana’s 2010 General Plan update and Trico Electric Cooperative’s franchise agreement with the town.

The Marana Town Council voted to allow Mayor Ed Honea to execute a one-year extension of the intergovernmental agreement between the town and Pima County for provision of water-consumption data and sewer-user account billing.

On a cool January morning in 1980, 27-year old Kathryn Armstrong reported to work in a converted home on Calle Concordia that served as Oro Valley’s town hall.

Letters to the editor published in the November 17, 2010, edition of The Explorer.

This is not intended as a debate on whether the Marana Town Council made the correct decision Nov. 3, when it voted 5-1 to rezone a parcel of land owned by Vice Mayor Herb Kai, and to accept a development agreement allowing a 430-acre commercial landfill on the town’s western edge.

We don’t want pot shops on every corner

After months of talking by others, the Marana Town Council voted 5-1 on Nov. 3 to approve a zoning change and related development agreement that would allow construction of a 430-acre commercial landfill on land in west Marana.

For nearly all of 2010, people have deluged the Marana Town Council with facts, opinions, emotions, protests and demonstrations about the Marana Regional Landfill.

By a 5-1 vote Wednesday, the Marana Town Council has approved a zoning change and related development agreement that would allow construction of a commercial landfill on land in west Marana.

Marana's many-month consideration of a commercial landfill proposal may come to a formal conclusion this Wednesday, Nov. 3, when the town council holds public hearings on both the development agreement with DKL Holdings and the zoning change that would allow the project on land owned by Vice Mayor Herb Kai in the community's western edge.

A near-capacity crowd packed the Marana Town Council chambers on Aug. 17, ready to comment during a resumption of the public hearing on a zoning change that would allow a commercial landfill in Northwest Marana.

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