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Last week’s high .......................... 104°Last week’s low .............................. 73°

Precipitation for the week ............ 0.53”Precipitation for the month .......... 0.89”Precipitation for the year ............. 2.53”

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Wednesday 5:26 a.m. 7:33 p.m.Thursday 5:26 a.m. 7:32 p.m.Friday 5:27 a.m. 7:32 p.m.Saturday 5:27 a.m. 7:32 p.m.Sunday 5:28 a.m. 7:32 p.m.Monday 5:28 a.m. 7:31 p.m.Tuesday 5:29 a.m. 7:31 p.m.

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A4 GREEN VALLEY NEWS & SUN LOCAL NEWS WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 2014

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ANDREW PAXTON | GREEN VALLEY NEWS

A little rain fallsA woman shields herself from the monsoon rain on her way into Wal-Mart on Nogales Highway in Sahuarita on Monday. Parts of Sahuarita have seen three-quarters of an inch of rain this month. Thunderstorms are expected today.

Kids Care Fair seeksback-to-school help

By Regina Ford

rford@gnews.com

With back-to-school just a few weeks away, local students can get a jump start on the school year at the 12th annual Kids Care Fair on July 26, but the event organizers say they need help.

The Salvation Army of Green Valley is coordinat-ing the fair for students, and Esther Corrales, Green Valley service coor-dinator for the Salvation Army, said as of Monday, only 72 kids are signed up to participate.

The Kids Care Fair is for those K-12 students in the Sahuarita Unified School District, Continental School District and Great Expectations Academy who qualify for assistance of school supplies. The event will be held at Sa-huarita Primary School from 8 a.m. to noon.

“Last year we had about 280 kids at the fair, but they have to be registered to attend and we need them to come into our offices and sign up,” Cor-rales said.

Vouchers are available from the Salvation Army

for families, who are asked to sign up for them Mon-day through Friday at the office at 555 N. La Canada Dr., Suite 101. The deadline to register is July 17.

The Kids Care Fair supplies at no cost shoes, backpacks, school sup-plies and a uniform shirt for students whose schools require them. Corrales said the event is also short of funding and sponsorships.

“We have enough volun-teers but we need funds— between $4,000 to $5,000 more,” she said. “The money goes to buying school supplies and other things the students need to begin the school year.”

The Sahuarita and Green Valley Safeways are involved as sponsors along with the Green Val-ley News and Sahuarita Sun, KGVY radio, and Fry’s, which is supply-ing water, snacks and 200 backpacks. Several other agencies and businesses are also collaborating with the Salvation Army to host the fair.

Fair sponsors purchase shoes at a discount from Payless Shoe Source.

Corrales said there will

be about 25 booths offer-ing services such as ba-sic dental screenings and eye checks. Free haircuts will be available, and rep-resentatives from Hands of a Friend, the Joyner-Green Valley Library, the Green Valley-Sahuarita Community Food Bank, Valley Assistance Servic-es, CareMore, the Pima County Health Depart-ment and many more groups will be at the fair providing information to help parents or guardians of school-age kids.

A face painting booth will be set up just for fun and to keep the younger children occupied.

Local residents may do-nate school supplies for the event, which can be dropped off at both Safe-ways, Walmart and Salva-tion Army office.

Needs include new backpacks, markers, crayons, scissors, glue, pencils, pens, highlight-ers, three-ring binders, notebook paper and spiral notebooks, folders, eras-ers, 12-inch rulers, index cards, calculators and compasses. Call 625-3888 for more information.

Regina Ford | 547-9740

Sahuarita looks to future;shops could be comingBy Kitty Bottemiller

kbottemiller@sahuaritasun.com

Sahuarita of tomorrow — make that tomorrow’s grandchildren — will likely be an extension of what Bob Sharpe started with his Rancho Sahuarita develop-ment years ago, with a few tweaks.

That’s how it was de-scribed to Sahuarita’s ad-visory Planning & Zoning Commission in an update meeting Monday, and how it’s shaping up in the lat-est conceptual drawings of two working plans. One is the Sahuarita Farms mas-ter plan for the Santa Cruz River corridor; the other, Sahuarita East Conceptual Area Plan (SECAP), is lay-ing groundwork the annex-ation of 30,000 acres east of town, to dovetail with the town’s General Plan, which gets updated every 10 years.

The two are crucial, of-ficials say, to achieve the vital, sustainable, inclusive and desirable community they envision, replete with residential, recreational, educational, shopping and employment opportuni-ties to provide for a pro-jected population of 90,000 and workforce of 50,000. Economic advantages are expected to abound in the trade corridor extending from Sonora to Tucson and including Sahuarita.

Both are far-reaching, stretching 40 to 50 years out but showing visible prog-ress as soon as next year, following key approval by town officials and others as the various stages progress.

Residents may see work begin in 2015 on a new trail-head north of Sahuarita Road for hiking/equestrian use that may ultimately connect with the Continen-tal Farms area in Green Valley, and a new trailhead connecting Abrego Drive to the fledgling Canoa Pre-serve Park.

That’s just the beginning, and there will be much more discussion before, during and beyond to position the town for the working vision of the future.

The public can see details of the plan drafts at a series of upcoming Town Hall meetings, where land-use and architectural concepts, streetscapes and drainage cross-sections will be dis-played (see box).

Sahuarita Farms Specif-ic Plan, which now includes revisions requested by town officials from earlier drafts, will be presented at a hear-ing tentatively set for Sep-tember before the Planning & Zoning Commission, fol-lowed by public hearings, probably in October.

Viewers can expect to see accommodations for schools, adjacent parks, traffic and transit flow, wa-ter use, sewer and more. While it addresses a mul-titude of considerations, Mark Reddie of LVA Urban Design, spokesman for the Sahuarita Farms plan on behalf of landowner Farm-ers Investment Company (FICO), cautions that it’s all based on flexibility that al-lows for change as needed through the formal amend-ment process, as FICO’s pecan orchards are retired

and replaced by develop-ment.

Based on 2 percent an-nual growth, development isn’t likely to be too far off. That rate may vary, but “I can’t predict anything different” now, said Town Planning & Zoning Director Sarah More.

SECAP’s next steps call for public outreach/input sessions over the next two months, public meetings in October, draft comple-tion in November, and tie-in with the town’s General Plan, by July 2015.

Why such earnestness on the apparent emergence from economic recession?

Sahuarita has expe-rienced “tremendous growth” – 600 percent – since 2000.

“It’s best to preserve land now while it’s in single own-ership,” Reddie said, calling this a rare opportunity to create a regional amenity without causing further damage from potential floods.

Already there are in-klings of need for more schools, utilities, fire and police stations, libraries, voc-tech facilities and other infrastructure, creating frustration over develop-ment without a master plan.

So FICO decided to draft a “responsibly proactive” one, also addressing the largely undeveloped river through town which could wreak havoc on existing infrastructure in the event of a major storm — two of which have struck in the last 30 years — as well as the natural floodplain, Red-die said.

Ongoing headcutting and erosion of riverbanks have created unsafe conditions for the community, he not-ed. The preference is a wide, shallow plain such as that south of Continental Road in Green Valley, healthier for the community, wildlife and other nature.

SECAP’s annexation — which anticipates most of the acreage between Hough-ton Road and Interstate 19, FICO lands on the west, and Santa Rita Experimental Range, south — is planned to stop encroachment from outside interests.

“The point is, we’re doing this because we need our little imprint and situation set,” said Town Council member Gil Lusk, part of the group drafting the plan.

“If we don’t, Tucson and others will. I would rather take the ambience of Sa-huarita east than that of Tucson.”

The goal isn’t to “wipe the slate clean” on that spread “but preserve what we’ve got and be ready for the fu-ture.”

SECAP isn’t even being referred to yet as a growth area but future boundaries, as growth for years yet will be limited to the Town Cen-ter along Sahuarita Road, and Duval Mine and Pima Mine roads.

Talks between the town and state, which now con-trols territory east, began in 2007. Not much will hap-pen until annexation ap-provals are granted and parcelling begins nearest existing infrastructure — still years away, Lusk said.

Kitty Bottemiller | 547-9732

WANT TO WEIGH IN?Go to sahuaritaaz.gov to learn more and comment

on Sahuarita’s General Plan “Aspire 2035” so far. Want an in-person presentation? Contact Sarah

More, Town of Sahuarita’s Planning & Building Di-rector, at smore@sahuaritaaz.gov or call 520-822-8853 to schedule a community or neighborhood visit where you can learn details, ask questions and express opinion to help shape the plan.

Public meetings for SECAP review:2 p.m. July 156 p.m. July 165 p.m. July 18 All convene at Town Hall, 375 W. Sahuarita Center Way.

SECAP next steps: public outreach/input sessions planned over the next two months, final public meet-ings in October, completion of the plan, November, and integration with the General Plan, by July 2015.

View the Sahuarita Farms Specific (Master) Plan at www.sahuaritafarms.com. To comment, contact Sarah More.

DEVELOPMENT UPDATESA Circle K at Nogales Highway and what may

be the future Quail Crossing is the planned result of a lot split now in process, Sahuarita Planning & Building Director Sarah More said at a Planning & Zoning Commission meeting Monday.

An undisclosed party has expressed recurring interest in the former El Pollo Lucky restaurant site in Sahuarita Plaza. More said she could not divulge the party involved, however, they have returned to the town several times, asking specific questions about business and signage requirements.

More also noted area home sales, with Quail Creek developer Robson Properties recently report-ing their best quarter since 2007. Except for the KB lots on the north side just purchased near Pima Mine Road, Rancho Sahuarita had no lots available. Now, three plats are currently in process, and ongo-ing, one-at-a-time plats in Quail Creek.