Marana approves new housing near Tucson Premium Outlets
A real estate developer has received the green light to develop 69 acres of empty desert near Linda Vista Boulevard and Interstate 10 into a residential subdivision, after making amendments at the direction of the Marana Town Council.
On May 7, The Planning Center, a local planning and landscape architecture firm, presented its land use concept, which requires 52 of those acres to be rezoned from industrial uses to single-family residential housing with medium density.
This change will allow eight residences to be built on each acre, instead of just two. The previous entitlement allowed 104 lots to be built, and the Planning Center proposed 187. Fifty of those homes would be a minimum of 6,000 square feet, and 137 of them would be a minimum of 4,800 square feet. They kept 17 acres as designated open desert.
