Wednesday, October 21st, 2009...8:22 am
Vast Tracts of Land
When they held the forum for Tucson City Council candidates at Guadalupe Chapel, expansion of a section of 22nd Street to near freeway dimensions was brought up. Aside from one rather mealy mouthed answer, even the Republican candidates had to at least pay lip service to the needs of the nieghborhoods and lean towards being against the project. It’s a big difference between Tucson city politics and politics in Phoenix.
Let me give you a frinstance: one of the major bones of contention between Dana Kennedy and Sal DiCiccio is the extension of the loop 202. The extension is opposed by neighborhood activists and evironmentalists who just see this as a boon to developers who want to open up yet more land to development. DiCiccio is actually campaigning as a supporter of this project, and, unfortunately, the media and many parts of the political establishment up in Phoenix seem to be lauding him for it.
What’s worse is that DiCiccio’s enthusiasm for this project is more because of his real estate holdings than any sort of care about the future of Phoenix.
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