by Gary Nelson
Aug. 17, 2009
The Arizona Republic
If you plan it, they will come. But if you don’t plan it, they will come anyway, turning a vast swath of Pinal County into a cancerous blob of urban sprawl with up to a million new residents.
That’s the thinking behind a $1.7 million exercise that’s about to produce its first report on possible ways to develop Superstition Vistas, a 275-square-mile tract of state trust land in the far southeast Valley.