Uncertainties cloud Pinal County's vision for Superstition Vistas

Like an ever-elusive desert horizon, Arizona's vision for Superstition Vistas is a moving target. The 275-square-mile chunk of state land in northern Pinal County is still being framed as the possible site of one or more ecofriendly cities in coming decades, with population estimates ranging up to a million. But with Arizona's brakes still smoking from a screeching halt to decades of fast-track growth, the Superstition Vistas timeline is fuzzier than ever. The uncertainties dominated the discussion when about 200 people met in Apache Junction recently to hear the latest update on planning for the Vistas. "We're in a state of enormous uncertainty," said Jim Holway, a program director with the Sonoran Institute, a non-profit group that advocates better management of growth in the West. "I don't think anyone has a crystal ball that says what the development economy is going to be in two years, five years, 10 years. Most of us have a certain amount of faith that it's going to return, but is it going to look like it did five years ago, or is it going to be something different?"

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