PHOENIX (AP) -
Members of the Gila River Indian Community are deciding whether to move the proposed South Mountain Freeway a half-mile south, out of the Ahwatukee Foothills. The state has already spent millions on studies buying dozens of Ahwatukee Foothills homes in the existing right of way.
The Arizona Republic reports tribal voters are considering one question with three possible answers. Should the Loop 202 extension from Chandler to Laveen be built on the existing Pecos Road alignment through Ahwatukee Foothills, or should it be it built on tribal land to the south, or not at all?
A vote opposing either route would not stop the state from going ahead with the freeway through Ahwatukee Foothills.
Plans for a South Mountain Freeway have been around since the early 60s as a critical east-west reliever for Interstate 10.
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