A question from the community
Question From a Surprise Resident: We have lived in Surprise for almost 10 years moving here from suburbs of Chicago via Naples Florida. We have watched all of the home building going on in our beautiful desert. So much wildlife being displaced and killed in all the new traffic. My question to you is: Do you think that Surprise is growing too much, to fast. Every builder quarantees 100 years of water, but are they all not getting it from the same place. Mayor Hall tells me no worries, we have all kinds of water resources. What say you.
Ed's Response: First off, thank you for reaching out and for your question. We need more residents to take an interest in the future of our city! As someone who grew up hunting and hiking and camping in this area, it does prick at my heart to see how much growth has happened so fast, but more than that, some of our developers are not looking at standards for greenery and wildlife corridors as part of their community planning. This is why we need strong leadership who has the experience and is not scared to go head to head with billionaire developers. Do I think we need to slow growth? I do not believe that it is the governments job to control or manipulate the free market at all. However, we can vote even more strict codes in place as to what developers wanting zoning to agree to before we sign off on projects. This will ensure that developers put real thought into their projects and are not just here to take as much from our land as they can get. This will also ensure wildlife corridors and the park like feel that so many of our other communities here have.
Last bit of information. We do have a wildlife corridor that runs through our city but it is owned by the county currently. This is one of the relationships we need to foster and grow. There is a lot of shared develoment we can offer with the county that can add to this area and ensure we have a beautiful city as we develop heavily over the next few decades.
I hope this helps and again, Thank you for reaching out and asking the questions that need to be asked.
