Designating 38 acres for conventional single-family homes and 50 acres at a different site for industrial businesses have been approved by Apache Junction City Council.

Both were amendments to the city’s General Plan, which is used for guiding future development. General Plan amendments are allowed once a year and must be approved by City Council, officials said.

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The Apache Junction Planning and Zoning Commission on Sept. 11 voted unanimously to recommend that the council approve the General Plan change.

The council voted 7-0 on Sept. 18 to redesignate the 38-acre property at the southwest corner of East Old West Highway and South Goldfield Road from community commercial to medium density residential so the property may later be developed with a conventional single-family-home subdivision.

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