Catherine Reagor
The Arizona Republic
Aug. 13, 2006 12:00 AM
New homes will keep going up on metropolitan Phoenix's fringes, stretching its boundaries as more people move to the area.
The Valley will grow south toward Tucson, west past the White Tank Mountains and north toward Prescott. But its growth to the east is likely to come to a halt.
Metro Phoenix is already bumping into Native American land on its eastern fringes. And developers can't just hop over the Salt River or Fort McDowell reservations bordering Scottsdale and Fountain Hills the way they have leaped over other obstacles, including giant chunks of state land, as the Valley grows to the south, west and north. If they tried, they would run into the vast, undevelopable Tonto National Forest on the other side of the reservations.
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