Long time Democratic Party donor Nan Walden’s Farmers Investment Co. (FICO) which grows pecans in the Sahuarita area is competing against Community Water Co. of Green Valley, who is working with Augusta Resource Corp., for CAP water.
At last night Tucson City Council meeting Council unanimously agreed to apply standards in determining which entity would be allowed to hook-up their pipeline up to the pipeline that is owned by the City and the Central Arizona Project.
The Council also heard from west-side residents who felt as if they had been left out of the planning process of the soon to be defunct El Rio golf course. Long time resident, and neighborhood advocate, Margaret McKenna, criticized Councilperson Regina Romero for not notifying residents of the plan for Grand Canyon College to build a campus on the site.
Residents hope to keep the area for a park. Some had hoped to see half of the course remain as one of the few golf courses in the area and the other half turned into a park.
Romero claimed that she did involve residents, however for weeks, community members have questioned how the residents Romero “involved” were selected. For weeks, many in the area have expressed frustration with the seemingly secretive process.