#Neighborhood Living
Target:
Himanshu Patel; Scott Riggins; Louis Andersen; Anthony Smith
Region:
United States of America

Canada Partners, L.P. is planning a 55-home residential development named Sundance Ridge that will be located on an 85.7-acre tract of land just north of SaddleBrooke, AZ. According to the developer’s current plans, Sundance Ridge homeowners and residents will:

• Have a single access route to/from N. Oracle Road using private SaddleBrooke roads that were designed for an age-restricted community.
• Not be subject to SaddleBrooke traffic rules and regulations.
• Draw ground water from one or more aquifers adjacent to SaddleBrooke property.
• Have septic systems of an unspecified type.
• Be allowed to own/board horses and other types of farm animals.
• Not be subject to age-restrictions as are SaddleBrooke homeowners and residents.

We, the undersigned, hereby request the Pinal County Planning & Zoning Commission, Public Works Department, and Board of Supervisors help mitigate the financial and quality-of-life impact that the Sundance Ridge residential development will have on SaddleBrooke, AZ homeowners and residents by requiring that Canada Partners, L.P. complete the following actions prior to obtaining the Board's approval to start the Sundance Ridge development:

1. Traffic: Conduct a new traffic impact analysis to replace the one Canada Partners completed in June 2014. That analysis is inadequate because: (1) the data was collected when the number of SaddleBrooke residents was at a seasonal low; and (2) it does not account for the increased traffic that will be generated by the build-out of SaddleBrooke, the Sundance Ridge development, and future nearby developments that may be allowed to use SaddleBrooke roads. The new analysis should be based on the total number of:

• All current/future SaddleBrooke and Golder Ranch residents/occupants.
• All future residents/occupants that will/may be generated by Sundance Ridge and like developments.
• All current/future staff and public vehicles that will/may use SaddleBrooke roads (e.g., for delivery and maintenance services, construction and earthmoving equipment, etc.).

2. Traffic Safety: Work with the SaddleBrooke Homeowners Association Nos. 1 and 2 to:

• Develop policies that will permit both SaddleBrooke HOAs to hold Sundance Ridge residents and visitors to the same traffic rules and regulations that SaddleBrooke residents must obey while using SaddleBrooke roads.
• Incorporate those policies into the covenants, conditions, and restrictions (CC&Rs) of all affected HOAs.

3. Water Use: Conduct a comprehensive water availability study that:

• Accounts for all aquifers that are being and/or will be used by SaddleBrooke and Sundance Ridge.
• Shows that both communities will have sufficient water supplies for at least 100 years.

4. Water Treatment: Identify when and where the Sundance Ridge water treatment facility will be built.

5. Sewage:

• Either, ensure the Sundance Ridge CC&Rs restrict homeowners to septic systems that use holding tanks to capture all household sewage/waste, and require that the waste collected by such systems be pumped out and transported away from the community at a predetermined frequency.
• Or, submit a plan to install sewer systems and build a solid waste processing plant.

6. Drainage: Work with the SaddleBrooke Homeowners Association No. 2 to determine how the drainage of water, non-household sewage, and other liquid run-off from Sundance Ridge will be managed.

7. Farm Animals: Require that the Sundance Ridge CC&Rs disallow horses and all other types of farm animals anywhere in the community.

8. Community Age Restrictions: Require that Sundance Ridge—and any other future development that will use SaddleBrooke roads—be an age-restricted community similar to SaddleBrooke (i.e., at least 80% of its dwelling units must be occupied by at least one person 55 years of age or older; and all dwelling units must be occupied by at least one person 40 years of age or older)—at least until the developer builds an access route to/from Sundance Ridge that does not include SaddleBrooke roads.

9. Master Development Plan: Submit a master development plan that describes how Canada Partners, CDO, and all other subsidiaries of CDO intend to develop and use the remaining land they own north of SaddleBrooke—especially the 278 acres of land it owns just north of SaddleBrooke and west of the planned Sundance Ridge development. At a minimum, this plan should identify:

• The total number of homes and commercial facilities to be built on the remaining land.
• How all future developments on the remaining land will be integrated with Sundance Ridge.
• The roads that homeowners and residents of all future developments will use to travel to/from N. Oracle Rd.
• How much water will be needed to sustain all possible future developments.
• How household waste will be treated/removed in all future developments.
• How water drainage, non-household waste, and other liquid run-off from all future developments will be managed.

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The Mitigate Financial and Quality-of-Life Impact of Sundance Ridge on SaddleBrooke petition to Himanshu Patel; Scott Riggins; Louis Andersen; Anthony Smith was written by The SaddleBrooke Committee and is in the category Neighborhood Living at GoPetition.