Rural residents of San Tan Valley wary of incorporation

by Jake Kincaid | San Tan Sentinel

Residents of rural San Tan Valley are worried that incorporation will bring unwanted changes to their communities.

“We moved here because it’s perfect for us, and we don’t want incorporation to spoil it,” Sun Valley Farms resident Gerry Santomassimo wrote to PinalCentral.

Santomassimo describes his community as full of big acres of double track trails, dirt roads and farm fields full of animals where it is not uncommon to see someone going for a ride on a horse — and he likes it that way. He’s not against incorporation in other parts of the San Tan Valley that are built up.

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