First homes subdivision south of Baseline planned in Apache Junction

Construction like above could begin in 2019 with homes south of Baseline Road in the city of Apache Junction. (Independent Newsmedia/Arianna Grainey)
A subdivision of nearly 260 homes planned south of Baseline Avenue in Apache Junction will be surrounded by undeveloped land, the planning commission was told recently.
“We hope that this is the spark which gets finally development south of Baseline going,” Apache Junction Senior Planner Rudy Esquivias said at the commission’s Nov. 13 meeting.
“It’s south of Baseline. We don’t have a whole lot of development south of Baseline, with the exception of the public works yard, the landfill, the sewer district facility, we have a new water company facility and, of course, there’s the industrial county island,” he said.