Maricopa County Department of Health’s weekly update last week showed 530,000 adults have been vaccinated with at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, bringing the total to 15 percent of the county population.
But Mesa continues to lag in vaccination rates.
Though still limited to those 65 and older, teachers, emergency responders and a few other groups, 180,000 in the county have been fully vaccinated with two doses of vaccine.
With 23,000 doses of vaccine hitting county residents per day, half of those vaccinated in Maricopa County are 65 years or older — and 53 percent of those 75 or older in the county have been vaccinated with at least one shot of the two-dose regimen.
The East Valley is more of a mixed bag, with Mesa continuing to lag on vaccination rates.
A vaccination map illustrating those receiving at least one shot shows much of Mesa behind the curve, with fewer than half of residents eligible for vaccinations receiving shots in most neighborhoods. . .
> Seven of Mesa’s ZIP codes were under 50 percent.
> Vaccination rates for those eligible in Mesa were at 47 percent in 85201 and 85206 and around 40 percent in 85210, 85203, 85204, 85208 and 85205.
> Mesa 85213 was right at 50 percent while 85207 was over 56 percent.
> In northeast Mesa, 85215 had nearly 60 percent of eligible residents vaccinated – the same rate as 85209 in southeast Mesa. Also in the southeast, 85212 had 67 percent vaccinated. . .
Neighbors oppose Riverview development
By Tom Scanlon
Tribune Managing Editor
Monday’s Mesa City Council meeting includes another agenda item likely to be debated: A request by a developer for an office building and garage near Riverview.
There are currently four office buildings in the development at Alma School Road & Bass Pro Drive. The first two, both two-stories, went up in 2007.
Two more were built in 2014 and neighbors complained that the view-disturbing three-story office buildings received “administrative approval” and they were not informed about it.
At a Planning and Zoning Board meeting last week, Economic Development Director Bill Jibjiniak said his department “strongly supports this project.”
Neighbors – not so much.
The developers, complained West Mountain View residents Robert and Theresa Couglin in an email, “are trying to force through a 3-story office building plus an even larger parking structure. This will eliminate any view of mountains as our street is named Mountain View for a reason. Or do you intend to also rename it Parking Structure View?”
Dozens of others submitted similar emails and spoke at the meeting protesting the new buildings.
As Joshua Boyle put it, in comparing the developers to a Civil War general who refused to act, “They’ll tell you they want to work with us but they’re not sacrificing anything.”. . Richard Gurtler, a resident of the area for 41 years, called the plans by the developer “unrestrained greed.”
After listening to complaints by the neighbors, planning board members unanimously approved the developer’s plan. It moves on to city council, with an introduction scheduled Monday and possible action March 15.
At a study session last week, Mayor John Giles said he expected neighbors to speak out Monday “unless they want to keep their powder dry and wait until March 15.” ′
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