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NEWS................................ 9 Heritage Square building plan hits brick wall.
COMMUNITY......... 14 Gilbert Olympian MyKayla Skinner honored.
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Sunday, August 22, 2021
Gilbert housing grew nearly 25% since 2010 BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor
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ilbert housing units increased by 24.5 percent since 2010 – the second biggest increase in the East Valley, according to U.S. Census Bureau. The U.S. Census Bureau recently released data from its 2020 decennial count, which showed that county-wide, Gilbert’s jump in units was not nearly as big as those in Queen Creek, Buckeye and Goodyear. But Gilbert’s percentage increase in units is
nearly three times that of the increases seen in all of Maricopa or Pinal counties, where they were 10.6 percent and 8.6 percent, respectively. Queen Creek saw the most dramatic increase in housing units in 10 years with 129.4-percent, going from 11,071 units in 2010 to 19,628. Most of that increase was in the Pinal County portion of Queen Creek, which saw a 2,527 percent increase in units, from 1263 to 4,283. Among East Valley municipalities, Chandler ranked third with a 14.8-percent in-
Gilbert districts opt out of Ducey-Biden mask showdown
crease, or 13,984 new builds, bringing the number of units in that city to 108,388. Gilbert has about 10 more years before it reaches build-out. Since 2010, the Census showed, developers built 18,323 housing units in the town, bringing the total inventory to 93,230 in 2020. In the 2000 count, Gilbert had 37,007 housing units and in 1990 it had just under 11,000. It appeared that nearly half of the new builds came on line last year as 2019 Census
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BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor
BUSINESS................. 16 Gilbert vintage store appeals to thrill of the hunt.
COMMUNITY....................................... 14 BUSINESS............................................. 16 OPINION................................................ 18 SPORTS.................................................. 19 PUZZLE.................................................. 22 CLASSIFIED..........................................23
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ll three major school districts in Gilbert are staying on the sidelines of the emerging showdown between Gov. Doug Ducey and the Biden Administration over mandatory mask policies for students and staff. In a roller-coaster week triggered by a Maricopa County judge’s ruling Aug. 16 that the state mask mandate ban does not take effect until Sept. 29, Gilbert Public Schools took no action. Last Thursday, Higley Unified Governing Board declined to advance a proposed mandate to a vote while and Chandler Unified’s board voted to keep masks optional.
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The Gilbert Redevelopment Commission last week gave its backing last week to O.H.S.O. Brewery’s plan to create a small park on Heritage District property owned by downtown businessman Marc Barlow. For the plan behimnd this rendering, see page 6. (Special to GSN)
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