Queen Creek farm gets development plan

William Lyon Homes plans to transform a former Queen Creek church farm, owned and operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, into an 879-acre master-planned community. The planned community, to be called "Church Farm," is southeast of Signal Butte and Ocotillo roads and will include at build-out 2,310 single-family homes, nine neighborhoods and two community parks, a 23-mile trail system, 229 acres of open space and recreation and a 25-acre commercial site. Queen Creek Council recently approved rezoning the site from residential to a combination of residential, commercial, recreation and public or quasi-public land. It also OK'd the project's preliminary plat, which contains a layout of streets and lots. < SCRIPT language='JavaScript1.1' SRC="http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N3285.usatoday/B2343920.80;abr=!ie;sz=160x600;click=http%3A//gannett.gcion.com/adlink%2F5111%2F328012%2F0%2F170%2FAdId%3D2972190%3BBnId%3D1%3Bitime%3D50186558%3Blink%3D;ord=50186558?"> < /SCRIPT>< NOSCRIPT>< A HREF="http://gannett.gcion.com/adlink/5111/328012/0/170/AdId=2972190;BnId=1;itime=50186558;nodecode=yes;link=http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/N3285.usatoday/B2343920.80;abr=!ie4;abr=!ie5;sz=160x600;ord=50186558?"> < IMG SRC="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/N3285.usatoday/B2343920.80;abr=!ie4;abr=!ie5;sz=160x600;ord=50186558?" BORDER=0 WIDTH=160 HEIGHT=600 ALT="Advertisement"> < /NOSCRIPT> "We're excited about the project," said Ed Hadley, William Lyon Homes' director of land acquisition. "This is a significant master plan ... the free-play concept (of the parks) is cutting edge. Free play is a whole new way to tie the community together through activities." The neighborhood parks follow a theme or concept. Each will be named for a different room of a home: The "game room" park will contain checker boards painted on concrete tables and an outdoor blackboard. The "backyard" park will have a little-league playing field and a dog park.

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