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Because American Avenue is in so many ways Oracle's lifeblood, what happens next is a big deal for our town. The impacts on pedestrian and vehicular safety, local commerce, social, and religious life are considerable. By clicking in to the doc above you can get a sense of what several Oracle residents think should happen from here.
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In the early 1970's the State of Arizona had big plans for American Avenue: Drive a high speed highway thru the center of town to facilitate truck traffic heading to Magma/San Manuel. Oracle residents got pissed off and decided to fight it. They made so much of a ruckus that the central planners in Phoenix had to back off. After town meetings and a big petititon drive, Oracle won. The "thru town" option was killed and the by-pass as we know it today was approved and built out a few years later.  Active Oracle citizens won a big victory. One of the first but definitely not the last.
The proposed Pinal County plan for Oracle's American Avenue:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UPRlX3LkKciCoByivDu_ytm6d1008AMs/view?usp=sharing Road Safety Assessment notes from community meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fOgz_AyY5aV5EIvepc1O-47le8EFL2GRjqaI2CaY6_s/edit?usp=sharing Local Leader and Architect Mary Huebner's comments on the plan: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vDJyYoPcVoM8bZe66pvHkCJBPgRR7JvjrUu0ZFM3a5M/edit?usp=sharing Please send your comments here: [email protected] |
AuthorKaz and I moved to Oracle in 1979. The house we bought dated to the late 1940s. With little advance knowledge of the place, we set out to build a new life together, intending to settle in and raise a family. 
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