Members of the South Mountain Citizen’s Advisory Team (SMCAT) have until July 24 to submit the official recommendation from its group on the proposed South Mountain Loop 202 Freeway to the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT).

Editor’s note: This is part two of a continuing summer series on the proposed South Mountain Loop 202 Freeway.

The Ahwatukee Foothills Village Planning Committee is preparing to defend Ahwatukee residents’ quality of life during construction of the South Mountain Freeway, should it go down Pecos Road.

The Ahwatukee Foothills Village Planning Committee will meet  at 6 p.m. on Monday, May 20 at the Pecos Community Center, 17010 S. 48th St. On the agenda is a City Council update from District 6 and an update on the South Mountain Freeway Citizens Advisory Team. For more information, visit phoenix.gov.

Editor’s note: This is part one of a continuing summer series on the proposed South Mountain Loop 202 Freeway.

It has been three years since members of the South Mountain Citizens Advisory Team (SMCAT) got together, but on Monday the group will reconvene to discuss air quality before the release of the Draft Environmental Impact Study (DEIS).

The company looking to open a medical marijuana dispensary in Ahwatukee Foothills has located a new site for a possible dispensary at 48th Street and Warner Road.

What has been the biggest concern for the future of Ahwatukee for years will remain at the top of the list moving into 2013. There has still been no decision made on whether or not the South Mountain Freeway will run down Pecos Road.

People have always speculated about what might or might not happen in 2012, but this past year turned out to be one full of waiting.

Developers with Lennar Homes have their sights on one more empty plot on the edge of Ahwatukee Foothills.

Seventeen-year-old Mountain Pointe student Spencer Elliott may sound like a busy student between being student coordinator and tutor king of the Totem Tutors learning program, president of the DECA Business Club and chess club co-president, but all of those are just titles he holds at school. Outside of school he’s a small business owner, professional skier and ski instructor, sits on the Tempe Union High School Superintendant’s Council; the Tempe Union High School Career and Technical Education Board; and most recently became a member of the Ahwatukee Foothills Village Planning Committee. As a side note, Elliott admits, he’s more than 90 percent deaf.

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Plans to turn an empty lot next to Desert Vista High School into a 49-unit subdivision moved one step forward on Wednesday when the Phoenix City Council approved the developer’s final plat.

The Ahwatukee Foothills Village Planning Committee denied a recommendation to revise the zoning ordinance and limit where smoke shops could be located within the city on Monday night.

The Phoenix City Council has approved the rezoning of land near Desert Foothills Parkway and East Marketplace in Ahwatukee Foothills, preparing the way for Rosewood Homes to build a 61-unit development on the land.

Over the past century, young girls and teens across the country have put in more than 70 million hours of service as members of Girl Scouts of the USA.

The process for rezoning the empty, west Ahwatukee lot for a new Rosewood Home development has made it one step further.

In the next step of the rezoning process, developers and representatives of the new Rosewood Homes site planned for Ahwatukee presented details and ideas to nearby residents last week.

A long-empty, 10-acre Ahwatukee Foothills lot that has gone through several construction plans could soon be a 65-unit home development.

Over the past century, young girls and teens across the country have put in more than 70 million hours of service as members of Girl Scouts of the USA.

There are plans in the works to turn an empty lot next to Desert Vista High School’s athletic fields into a 49-home, single-family subdivision.

Ahwatukee Foothills resident Marjorie Miner has spent her whole life as a devout and knowledgeable registered Republican, and now the Maricopa County Republican Committee is recognizing her for it.

Ahwatukee Foothills resident Marjorie Miner has spent her whole life as a devout and knowledgeable registered Republican, and now the Maricopa County Republican Committee is recognizing her for it.