NoPho Neighborhoods, Schools & Events
Anthem Community Council and several New River residents strongly oppose a proposed development of 283 homes on 71 acres between the two communities, and are hoping to sway a decision by the Rio Vista Planning Committee at its Sept. 11 meeting. Legally, however, neither group can stop the development.
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The New River/Desert Hills Water group will be hosting a community meeting regarding the formation of a Domestic Water Improvement District (DWID). Wate-rights attorney Steve Wene will address questions.
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A proposal by the grassroots group New River–Desert Hills Incorporation Committee to include some Anthem businesses within a new town boundary doesn’t sit well with the Anthem Community Council (ACC).
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A public meeting will seek community input on a proposed rezoning of 69 acres of vacant land east of Interstate 17 and north of Circle Mountain Road, for the construction of nearly 300 single-family homes.
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A map illustrating a proposal to incorporate New River and Desert Hills into a town mostly jogs around Anthem―but notches into the southernmost commercial district along Daisy Mountain Drive to include Circle K, CVS, and the Anthem Crossroads Plaza, where Fry’s Marketplace is located.
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Nine of 12 elementary schools in the North Valley, including those in Anthem, are projected to be below capacity over the next five years. But closing schools, even one with few students, means battling against parents’ emotions and the desire for kids to attend a school close to home.
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The City of Phoenix late Friday extended a deadline that will allow water haulers to continue supplying trucked-in water to rural residents while the utility company EPCOR builds a new water hauling station to replace the city’s supply.
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A water-hauling station to serve residents of New River and Desert Hills will be operational by the end of July, the utility EPCOR now says. But in this months-long saga, rural residents now face, yet again, a gap in their water supply. The City of Phoenix won’t yet say if it will extend a deadline to shut off the supply of hauled water for some 1,500 rural residents April 30.
Read More >>>In a series of public meetings, the community group New River/Desert Hills Water will explain a proposal to develop a Domestic Water Improvement District (DWID), a not-for-profit entity that could work with government agencies and utilities to secure water rights and deliver water to residents.
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EPCOR’s plan to build a water-hauling station on the outskirts of Anthem to serve New River and Desert Hills residents has been held up by an 11th-hour snag involving permitting requirements from the Army Corps of Engineers. It’s not yet known if or when the project will proceed, but participants are optimistic.
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A new restaurant, coming this fall to the vacant historic New River Station building on the frontage road north of Anthem, has its own colorful history stretching back five decades.
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