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North Gateway The North Gateway area is generally bounded by the Central Arizona Project on the south and the city corporate limits on the north and west. The eastern boundary meanders along 19th Avenue to 7th Avenue. The North Gateway area is bisected north and south by Interstate 17 (see map below).
Development in the Northern Gateway area was extremely limited prior to the mid-1990s. However, development began to occur with the approval of the Tramanto and Dynamite Ranch Mountain Ranch master plans near Carefree Highway. At the same time, the City needed to serve water to its portion of Anthem west of 1-17, which was under development further to the north. Working with Del Webb Corporation, which was later acquired by Pulte, a large transmission main was planned and eventually completed east and paralleling I-17 connecting a booster station near 27th Avenue and Carefree Highway to Anthem. The completed main transmits water from the Union Hills Water Treatment Plant north to Arizona American Water Company’s water system, which serves Anthem in incorporated Maricopa County. Through a wheeling agreement, the water is then delivered to the City’s Anthem system west of I-17. These developments, coupled with the development of the USAA campus to the south, led to the North Black Canyon Corridor Plan, which as adopted in 1999. The Corridor Plan creates an employment and residential corridor east of I-17 and encompasses most of North Gateway Village east of the freeway. In order to focus growth to the Canyon Corridor and efficiently develop water and wastewater infrastructure, the North Black Canyon Corridor Plan includes an infrastructure limit line around the Corridor Plan area. The Plan sets a goal that the Council will review the infrastructure boundary area when either (1) 10 years passes from Council adoption of the limits; or (2) 65 percent of the developable land within the infrastructure boundary is built upon (i.e. building permits issued). By contrast, most of the land west of I-17 north of the Central Arizona Project canal, known as Biscuit Flats, was (and still is) largely owned by the Arizona State Land Department with little water and wastewater infrastructure. Transmission mains delivering water from the Lake Pleasant Water Treatment Plant will cross Biscuit Flats with the intent to provide redundant supply to already developing areas, and not to open up development prior to any expansion or change to the infrastructure limit line. Last modified on 05/24/2011 08:59:33 |
