Residents are divided over the best way to protect their way of life: Currently, as an unincorporated Pima County community, or as an incorporated town with its own government. RyanFishTV has the full report
KGUN spoke with several Vail residents who agree that more growth is inevitable, but they also want to preserve the community’s rural, small town feel and rich history.
If at least 10 percent of registered voters within the designated town boundary sign the petition, the question will be put on the ballot and decided in an election this November. “We have one supervisor [Steve Christy] who has a very large district, that he’s got a lot of people he is responsible for,” said 17-year Vail resident Stuart Katz. “We don’t have as much control over what we would like. I’d like to see that done locally with people who have been here. People who are new to the area as well who could bring fresh and new ideas.”
“I think it takes the people, not a government, a layer of government to help us be in control,” she said. “We just have to get out and get the community to be more involved.”IVA president David Hook believes that at some point, the city of Tucson will look to annex areas of Vail, unless it becomes a town first.
State law says annexing an area requires more than half of property owners, representing more than half the assessed valuation of that area, to agree.“IVA is trying to bite off the whole thing, all at once,” said 39-year Vail resident Patti Woodbury. “The devil’s in the details… If they want a viable city, then they need to do their homework and do the level of detail that’s necessary.”“We did a feasibility study. The feasibility study shows it’s feasible,” he told KGUN. “To me, we are smart, wonderful, intelligent people. If all the other 91 cities and towns [in Arizona] can do it, I don’t know why we can’t.”As an incorporated town, Vail would receive millions in shared tax revenues from the state.
“So we’re going to get services we already get right now, we’re gonna pay a premium for them,” Woodbury said. “We’ll be pushed out,” he said. “The fear of what they’re intending to do [with incorporation is to] push us out. So all these trailers will be out of here, and they’ll move in 12 homes per acre, instead of one [per acre].”“Anybody who is working and managing a city is looking at that,” said 14-year Vail resident Joy Tucker. “Working with developers, working with businesses that are trying to come in… And it can be controlled. You can have growth in a very controlled, methodical manner.
A copy of the petition planned to be sent to the Board of Supervisors, and obtained by KGUN, shows the proposed boundaries of what would be the town of Vail.There is friction between community members, some part of the ‘Inform Vail’ group, and the IVA committee.
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