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Council race dwarfs other elections here in cash BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor
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he marquee race locally in next Tuesday’s election – the contest to become Ahwatukee’s first new representative on Phoenix City Council in more than a decade – is living up to its billing where money is concerned. Campaign financial statements filed for the first three quarters of the election cycle by the two women and six men running to replace termed-out District 6 Councilman Sal DiCiccio
show the combined total of cash poured into their war chests is nearly twice the total raised in the four other contests directly impacting Ahwatukee. Their $1,134,864 in total campaign donations easily exceeds the total $685,549 donated to the six Legislative District 12 hopefuls, the three Kyrene and three Tempe union governing board candidates and the political action committee pushing passage of Tempe Union’s bond and two override measures. And those totals don’t even include the money any of those candidates or the Yes Support
Our Schools PAC collected in October. Campaign financials for last month were due last weekend, after AFN’s print deadline. Those financials also will give a more complete picture of how much money all the candidates spent in the final weeks of their campaigns. The statements for donations and expenditures through Sept. 30 show the eight council candidates’ total expenditure of $525,689 almost equals the total spending by the three
see ELECTIONS page 18
Warehouse developer details 50th Street project
BUSINESS .................... 32 New Ahwatukee business offers thousands of lab tests.
GET OUT ....................... 46 Ahwatukee Recreation Center hosting big-name sugar band.
COMMUNITY...................... 24 BUSINESS .......................... 30 OPINION ..............................33 SPORTS ............................... 36 GETOUT............................... 41 CLASSIFIEDS ...................... 45
BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor
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he developer of three huge industrial buildings on 50th Street between Ray Road and Chandler Boulevard doesn’t yet know what kinds of tenants might move in and wants the site rezoned partly to expand the types of companies that could. But no matter what companies move in, large and small trucks would primarily make up the additional 1,700 to 1,800 vehicle trips that the development is projected to generate in the already congested area. And that’s before a 417-unit apartment complex could be going up on the same block as Via West’s Converge Logistics Center in the area of Thistle Landing Drive and 50th. The prospects of all that additional traffic alarmed the three people who joined an on-
see TRAFFIC page 16
The three large warehouses under construction are on a site on 50th Street near Thistle Landing Drive between Chandler Boulevard and Ray Road. In an area just north of the warehouses are two office buildings that a different developer wants to raze and replace with six buildings housing 417 apartments. (Tom Sanfilippo/Inside Out Aerial)
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