Opposition continues to proposed Pinal regional park; organizations and elected officials chime in with support
by David Yankus | Casa Grande Dispatch
The public comment period on the Palo Verde Regional Park draft master plan and preferred alternative ends Nov. 10, and the increasingly controversial park continues to attract both supporters and opponents.
The park would be placed on nearly 23,000 acres of U.S. Bureau of Land Management land along the western edge of Pinal County as a government-protected park. It would stretch from Interstate 8 to the south to State Route 238 to the north and include the Palo Verde Mountains, the Haley Hills and Vekol Wash.
With a site just outside the city of Maricopa, the park is considered by many residents both pro and con to be “right in their backyard.”
