Town of Marana making improvements through neighborhood revitalization
by Jeff Gardner | Tucson Local Media
For the Town of Marana, fixing neighborhood problems can mean solving surface-level issues and their deeper causes, both figuratively and literally. These fixes involve the town’s water, financial and legal departments, as well as an application process for funding. But through this process, two Marana neighborhoods are seeing major improvements.
In early 2016, former Marana Town Manager Gilbert Davidson discussed a new funding plan to reinvest in some of the town’s older neighborhoods. In the three years since, Marana has used this plan to upgrade multiple aspects of the Adonis neighborhood and Honea Heights, and even more upgrades are in the works.
The neighborhood funding program, originally called the colonia revitalization program, seeks to fix municipal and logistical problems affecting local homes. Some of the major problems were drainage and sewage in the Adonis neighborhood and mobile home park.
