Keep On Feeding-The-Blob That Devoured The Entire East Valley! (Until There's Not Enough Water)

Here's an earlier post on this blog, not too far removed in time, but before the hiring of the new Development Services Director Kusi Appiah who got a Bachelor's undergraduate degree for land-use planning in Ghana publishing a paper where he had to hire a research assistant. This post is from the long tenure of his predecessor.

May 2017 ". . .In the online post at Planetizen reporter Josh Stephens interviews Wesley back in March. He's a long-time holder of the planning director's office - who uses an analogy for what he calls Tea-Baggers to refer to the LDS descendants who still exercise control and monopoly on the lands and real estate holdings [and affiliated businesses] here that have now sprawled over 133 square miles, who have controlled conservative politics for 4-5 generations and continue to control real estate development now with overlapping interests in family members' trusts and undisclosed business relationships throughout the chain-of-command inside and outside City Hall.

America's Largest Suburb Flirts With Urbanization

John Wesley leads the charge to introduce urbanism into mega-suburb of Mesa, Arizona.

May 18, 2017, 8am PDT | Josh Stephens | @jrstephens310 

 

A time-line of Mesa's sprawl can be seen in the video insert to the left.

Mesa sprawls and sprawls-some-more into the record books as America's largest suburb. At 472,000 residents, it tops Atlanta, Miami, Minneapolis, and Cleveland, among others. . . the non-stop sprawl expanded just this week with another 700+-acre expansion at master-planned community Eastmark in the approval process with the Planning & Zoning Board.

Here's the video, uploaded to YouTube on Dec 14, 2016 with a 32-year time lapse of urban sprawl in Mesa, Arizona . . it goes by fast!
Mesa is a city in Maricopa County, in the U.S. state of Arizona, and is a suburb located about 20 miles east of Phoenix. Mesa is the central city of the East Valley section of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. Readers can hit the link to Planetizen to read more.

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BLOGGER NOTE: Hold on just a minute!

Let's have a reality check backed up with real data >

Here in Arizona MESA RANKS #29 out of 44 cities in Smart Cities

02 September 2018

No More Jivin' + No More Happy-Talk: Mesa Ranks #29 Out of 44 Here In Arizona For Smart Cities

Let's get the low-down - the real low-down - from experts not from politicians where Mesa ranks for intelligence, job opportunities - not promises in the over-hyped media of job creation promises.

Is Mesa a Smart City?

Instead of public performance-pieces by our mayor who's better leading a high school marching band instead of leading the city to professional skilled opportunities, affordability and quality of life that's equitable and fair for everyone.     
Absolutely no doubt about it now - the data and the facts are in to show that the City of Mesa schools (and millions of taxpayer dollars spent on the largest public education system in the entire State of Arizona) is falling behind NOT moving ahead to the next level when it comes to intelligence and job skills. With a huge budget employing thousands it's the Big Patronage Gravy Train (with some exceptions) that's failed for generations to deliver satisfactory outcomes to educate students on every level across the board. Taxpayers are getting short-changed . . . Just keeping you informed as usual here on this blog. It's all in good faith to encourage overdue changes; take some action, folks > it's up to you!

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"Cities around the globe are making efforts to become smart cities and Mesa is on the front edge of this next technology era."

 

 

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