(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents EDF Renewables.)
By InMaricopa
The 100-person village of Mobile is poised to become further swallowed into the City of Goodyear and create a new land border between the Phoenix suburb and Maricopa’s Hidden Valley — if things go right for one developer.
The move could see more funding for public safety, water supply, schools and roads in the rural community on State Route 238 as Mobile, once a far-flung blip for drivers bound to San Diego, tightens its tie to the Phoenix metro.
Goodyear City Council discussed earlier this month annexing some 828 acres of land 12 miles west of Maricopa city limits to eventually construct Rainbow Valley Energy Center, a solar power facility and battery storage system.
This annexation would add to the city’s expansive municipal limits, which already envelope parts of Mobile. The annexed land would hug the Maricopa-Pinal County line, with the northernmost boundary near 79th Avenue and Kinney Road, less than 1 mile south of State Route 238, and stretching more than 4 miles south to Fulcar Road in Hidden Valley.
