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The trail along the mountainside behind East Dry Creek Road in Ahwatukee’s Tapestry anyone communty has steadily eroded over the last five years and neighbors say the two HOAs with jurisdiction over it have done little to ease the threat of major flooding or a landslide. (Tom Sanfilippo/InsideOut Aerial)
Caught between 2 HOAs, homeowners fret BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor
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ore than three years have passed since the Maricopa County Flood Control District and the City of Phoenix labeled a mountainside in the Tapestry Canyon area of Ahwatukee a hazard. Citing “erosion and sediment hazards,” the
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a trail that has been a cherished neighborhood amenity as well as a natural diversion for water that cascades down the mountainside during heavy rains. Now, runoff in heavy rains could overcome the small drainage culvert behind the homes’ backyard walls. Despite repeated complaints over five years
ty’s landscape comes a new addition that has Club West and other residents up in arms. In recent weeks, the Arizona Department of Transportation and project designer-builder Connect202Partners have been installing a chain link fence along Liberty Lane – part of a fence that will run the entire 22 miles of the
freeway, scheduled to open in a few months. The fence has roiled the tempers of a host of elected officials, the Club West Community Association board and individual residents – all of whom have called it a needless insult
see TAPESTRY page 13
Don’t fence us in, Club West tells ADOT BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor
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April 2016 report lists the mountainside behind East Dry Creek Road and S. 14th Way among 39 Ahwatukee areas where homes and other buildings will sustain heavy damage in a so-called 100-year flood. Homes on East Dry Creek Road sit at the base of the mountainside, now in the path of water runoff after severe storms. Over the last five years, that runoff relentlessly ate away at
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rom the folks who are bringing Ahwatukee the South Mountain Freeway with its soaring sound walls and other changes that have impacted the communi-
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