The Goodyear city council may sign off Monday night on about 160 new homes in an area where residents worry that development has expanded faster than fire service.
There’s currently one fire station in Estrella Mountain Ranch. A second was slated to open in 2009, but the Great Recession forced the city to postpone the project.
Goodyear is now growing again and on track to issue about 1,000 single-family home permits for the second year in row.
If the project is approved, roads, water and sewer lines need to be built before new home construction can start, said Christopher Baker, Goodyear’s director of development services.
“By the time they go through that process, actually constructing improvements out on the site, the soonest you’re likely to see homes out there would be early to mid-summer next year,” Baker said.
Goodyear is working with developers to make sure the area has sufficient fire service, Baker said.
A city wide-study on where to build new fire stations should be complete this fall.
