[sac-forum] Re: Flatiron and vicinity

Dan Gruber wrote:
The CSC lied yesterday and said viewing at Flatiron would be okay until midnight. I was there from 4.15 – 4.45 pm and it was completely overcast. I left when nobody showed up to commiserate with.
More interesting were the signs posted all over the place indicating that a developer wants to amend the local general plan to develop up to _85,000_ homes (plus other stuff) on about 25,000 acres running roughly from 335^th Ave. to 370^th Ave. and from I – 10 north to the canal. This would bring development to about 5 miles south of the site. Combined with relentless development west of the White Tanks (see today’s AZ Republic), this doesn’t bode well. I wonder how many more years we have for reasonably dark skies at Flatiron? 

Happy holidays,

Dan
PS. If anybody has the week off from work and would like to try observing later in the week, please let me know. 

Dan Gruber

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As I reported two years ago the Flat Iron site is on private property that will become Douglas Ranch with 85,000 homes in phase one. The area has now been annexed into Buckeye so development will begin soon. You can view this information and a great deal more at the following link. You will need to load the Autodesk map viewer then zoom into the area. If you zoom close enough you can view aerial photos that you can easily spot our observing area. Contact me off this list for more information. This site also will aid us in finding another site. 

http://www.maricopa.gov/Assessor/GIS/map.html

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