With tweaks, 347 overpass gets general approval at hearing
By Raquel Hendrickson | inMaricopa.com
While mostly supporting the Arizona Department of Transportation’s preferred option for an overpass on State Route 347, residents are still requesting some tweaks.
That was the result of Wednesday’s public hearing on the environmental assessment of the proposed grade separation that would carry SR 347’s heavy traffic over the Union Pacific Railroad. The recommended alternative dodges the officially historic part of Maricopa on the south side of the tracks.
The plan does, however, mow over the 60-year-old First Baptist Church.
