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Eastbound traffic on Honeycutt Road passes through the Plainview Street intersection in the inner lane on Wednesday afternoon. The outer lane will be closed for several months for utility work. Photo by Bob McGovern
Commuting eastbound on Honeycutt Road will be more difficult for the next several months as the city on Monday began a construction project that will close the outer lane.
The lane currently is closed along the one-mile stretch from State Route 347 east to Santa Rosa Parkway with electronic signage alerting motorists.
The lane will reopen Fridays-Sundays, and close again Monday mornings for until the project is completed, tentatively expected July 30. Work on the project will progress eastward to Porter Road.
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This rendering shows the Burger King s new prototype building proposed for Maricopa-Casa Grande Highway. The rendering is conceptual and may change during the approval process with this city or as Burger King Corp. tweaks the prototype. Source: Barnett Management Co.
A Maricopa fast food operator is looking to build another restaurant in the city.
Three years after Burger King opened in Edison Pointe, the same franchisee has proposed a second restaurant along Maricopa-Casa Grande Highway.
A second Burger King restaurant is proposed along Maricopa-Casa Grande Highway next to the Maricopa Kids’ Dentists & Orthodontists practice in the The Wells. Photo by Bob McGovern
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John and Mary Lou Smith. Photo by Michelle Chance
People are moving to Maricopa every day. But do the newcomers â or the old timers, for that matter â give any thought to the names on our street signs, with the possible exception of John Wayne, of course.
InMaricopa delved into local history to tell you how some of our local roads received their names.
PORTER ROAD
Elton K. Porter farmed in Maricopa in the early 1950s. He and other community volunteers dug a large ditch at Porter Road and Maricopa-Casa Grande Highway and filled it with water, creating a popular swimming hole for teens in the early 1950s. In 1954, he died of a heart attack while fighting the fire that destroyed Maricopa Elementary School, the townâs 1914 red-brick school. The name of the school was changed to Elton K. Porter Elementary School for the former school board member, but over time returned to its original name.
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During an inspection of maintenance work in the Santa Rosa Wash, Maricopa Flood Control
District director David Alley discovered a large-scale erosion problem created by a Senita
homeowner backwashing a pool onto the upper bank of the wash. It cost more than $5,000 to
repair and restore. Photo by MFCD
The Maricopa Flood Control District is working with City officials to prevent erosion in the city washes caused by residents.
An ordinance banning the release of water pool backwashing, specifically onto the banks of the washes is proposed. As more and more residents drain their pools into the wash, the district is having to foot the repair bill.