Yes lets not do the park. I also agree that is a waste of our tax dollars. I was apalled to see that Smith is mostly responsible (planning) for this total mess that the city is in right now. All he knows how to plan is where to add the next sub-$100k housing development. No new roads. No better buildings... just cram everything into our terribly planned little community with no forethought. Seriously!

As far as I know, there is only one way across the railroad tracks. There have been emergencies and people say that we should double our police staffing to accomodate. That is bad planning. Obviously a RR overpass is the answer. Start building it!

The 4 lane highway is not adequate. The multitude of stop lights along 347 is stupid... build on-ramps instead. Who is dumb enough to put 5-6 stop lights on a highway? That is just asking to turn a 20 minute commute into town into 40-60 minutes. BAD PLANNING SMITH!

By the way, the other day it took me 50 minutes to get from Maricopa to Ray Road with no construction and no accidents. 45 minutes of that was the 347, caused by stoplight backups. Bad planning and bad stench has ruined this town.

Also, it's really pretty nonsensical to blame Anthony Smith for the lights along the 347 between Maricopa and the I-10.  Denna, you're forgetting about the fact that Gila River--not Maricopa--owns everything surrounding that part of the highway.  They own the property on which those on-ramps you're proposing would be built.  In other words, here you are blaming Maricopa planning for what has been done on a section of the highway that squarely falls into Gila River territory and is completely outside of Maricopa--i.e., a part of the highway that Maricopa has no direct control over whatsoever!!! 

Furthermore, if you had read some of the responses that Anthony Smith has made to people who directly questioned him about this issue on the forum (or had for that matter taken the effort to either attend city council meetings or read what's out there about the issue), you'd know that there are ongoing sit-down sessions/negotiations between Maricopa, the ADOT, and Gila River--who, again, owns all of the land that changes would be made on--in order to deal with those very issues.

Also, I can't see how you didn't know about this before buying property out here.  I can understand that when you were looking out here it may have been at a time when the cow smell wasn't present (so you didn't know the extent of it until you got here), but how could you not have known that there is a reservation between Maricopa and the I-10??!! 

YES FOR PARK EXPANSION!!! It is NOT A WASTE OF TAX DOLLARS, and Anthony Smith did not get us into any kind of mess. Dena I've read all your posts and you are incapable of understanding the process of civic planning and government processes. Please, before spouting forth all sorts of nonsense, do yourself and all of us a huge favor - EDUCATE YOURSELF on the process. If you are so upset with the conditions in Maricopa - why are you still here? Maricopa 10 years ago, heck even 5 years ago was a completely different picture. We have come along in huge ways and I cannot wait to see what we'll accomplish in the next 5 to 10 years!   You are SO NEGATIVE! 

Yes to the park.  Please add a graffitti wall there.  All the little loser taggers can paint that wall, instead of EVERYWHERE else.  The park will give kids some place to hangout, seeing as their parents don't care to know where they are.

Denna, if you want to ask Anthony Smith questions directly, why don't you go to the thread where he is asking for people's input/questions instead of posting them here?

Also, it doesn't really make a lot of sense to blame the city for 'Big Chicken' if the chicken farm you're referring to is on Ak-Chin land, and not on land owned by the city of Maricopa.  That would be exactly like me blaming you for what your neighbor puts in his yard.  Or the same as if you blamed the city for what happens on Gila River land--oh that's right, you did that in your last post. 

I have not seen a single person who is more negative on this forum--and there are some pretty negative people on here. Nor have I seen anyone who is so willing to slander/make negative comments about others while doing nothing to research the issues and get their facts straight first. Sitting in front of your computer and letting accusations fly without making that effort (or even making the effort to truly think through the issue before posting) is the easy--but incredibly lazy--thing to do.