Currently there are at least 10 new developments slated to be built in Northwest District 1 of the City of Surprise. 

This area currently has 2 roads in and 2 roads out.  It has no amenities, no gas, no stores, nothing.

This area is also not maintained very well by the city of Surprise.  From Jomax north to Dove Valley has terrible temporary roads.  Side streets are either dirt, asphalt that is in bad shape and some are even maintained by the homeowners.  

We have a terrible problem when it rains, the flood plains have changed and when the monsoon hits, some roads (Dale Lane and Peakview) are totally washed out.  Leaving huge sink holes and very dangerous situations.  During the monsoons we are usually stuck in our homes for hours because the washes have you locked in.  Heavy rain days cause seriously dangerous situations.  Rescue, fire, school buses and residents can't get in or out.  One day last August there were 10 flood rescues and it took 7 hours to get 5-7 miles home.  

So now the City is annexing and approving hundreds and hundreds of new houses in these 10+ developments.   This is just wrong.   We don't need more houses out here.  Especially when the 5 (Asante, Desert Oasis, SaddleBrook and Rancho Cabrillo) developments that are being built right now don't even have the houses SOLD YET!!   

The Lone Mountain and Marisol (163rd to 151st E/W and Dixileta to Dove Valley N/S) project are particularly terrible ideas.

Dixileta borders Saguaro View association residents and backs up to the CAP canal. That canal has 4 or so tunnels in it that dump the rain water in our washes. So what will they do for that? At best it will cut off all natural irrigation to Saguaro View. Killing our landscapes, wildlife and clean country view. And I hate to even think what’s going to get flooded during monsoon.

The city can’t fix the roads. Or put in a reasonably priced pad for a store or a gas station. But man do they know how to build wells and waste water treatment plants for the developments.

And I’d like for the councilmen to all come out here and look around. And look at all the pictures on our Facebook page of the flooding delema.
And look at the tiny strip of land they want to put single housing up against 2 1/2 - 10 acre parcels. ( Lone Mnt Ranch)
The only thing I see in developing that tiny area is GREED & MONEY. At the cost of what????    Everything we moved out here for, that's what.  

The meeting for Lone Mountion and Marisol is next Tuesday at 6pm at Desert Oasis Elementary. 17161 W Bajada Road.

You might want to try to be there.

List of projects from the City of Surprise website

TIERRA VERDE EAST NEC HAPPY VALLEY RD AND 155TH AVE 09/20/2018 FS18-249 P&Z COMMISSION

DESERT OASIS PARCELS L1 L2 L3 L4 AND L12 SWC OF 171 AND DYNAMITE BOULEVARD 08/07/2018 FS17-545 CITY COUNCIL

CORTANA AT DESERT OASIS PP NWC OF JOMAX ROAD AND 171ST AVE 08/02/2018 FS18-051 P&Z COMMISSION
CORTANA AT DESERT OASIS FINAL PLAT NWC OF JOMAX ROAD AND 171ST AVE 09/04/2018 FS18-065 CITY COUNCIL

MIRANO AT DESERT OASIS REPLAT OF LOTS NWC OF JOMAX ROAD AND 171 AV 08/07/2018 FS17-176 CITY COUNCIL

TIERRA RICO ZA AND PP NWC OF DALE LANE AND 171 AVE 08/07/2018 FS17-504 CITY COUNCIL

ASANTE 4.5 PARCELS 1 AND 2 NWC ASANTE BOULEVARD AND 163 AV 09/20/2018 FS18-154 P&Z COMMISSION
ASANTE 4.5 PARCELS 1 AND 2 NWC ASANTE BOULEVARD AND 163 AV 10/16/2018 FS18-154 CITY COUNCIL
ASANTE 4.5 PARCEL 1 FINAL PLAT NWC ASANTE BOULEVARD AND 163 AV 10/16/2018 FS18-254 CITY COUNCIL
ASANTE 4.5 PARCEL 2 FINAL PLAT NWC ASANTE BOULEVARD AND 163 AV 10/16/2018 FS18-255 CITY COUNCIL

SUNRISE RANCH NEC OF 171ST AVE AND JOMAX RD 07/05/2018 FS17-671 P&Z COMMISSION
SUNRISE RANCH NEC OF 171ST AVE AND JOMAX RD 08/07/2018 FS17-671 CITY COUNCIL

Meeting on these 2 next Tuesday 11/13 at Desert Oasis school 6pm
LONE MOUNTAIN RANCH
163rd to 151st? East/west
and Dixileta to White Wing - North/South

MARISOL RANCH
163rd to 151st? East West
White Wing to Dove Valley- North/south

Saddlehorn - 151st and Happy Valley - just south of Jomax- I believe this citizen outreach has already happened.