Saturday, August 05, 2006

Developer scales down housing proposal

Shalimar residents' objections to 5-story buildings are heard

Katie Nelson
The Arizona Republic
Aug. 3, 2006 12:00 AM

Shalimar community members have reached a truce of sorts with the developer who had wanted to build a high-rise in their central Tempe neighborhood.

The community's claws came out this year over plans to put five-story condominiums on the Tri-City Baptist Church property. Neighbors were livid at the idea of having buildings reaching five stories tall on the southeastern corner of their neighborhood at Southern Avenue and Price Road.

About 700 people signed a neighborhood petition saying they would protest any plan that called for density higher than the single-family homes that surround the 9-acre church property.

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