Town Manager Terry Rozema sits down with Development Services Director Jason Angell to revisit the latest development projects in Marana.
REAL TALK EPISODE 30. What challenges do locally-owned restaurants face?
Town Manager Terry Rozema sits down with Union Hospitality Group Owner Grant Krueger to better understand what it takes to open a local restaurant, the challenges local owners face in the current market, and to provide recommendations that the Town of Marana can pursue to encourage local restaurants.
REAL TALK EPISODE 25. Does Marana have too many storage facilities?
REAL TALK EPISODE 24. Why would Marana expand its boundaries?
Building Safety Month 2023
REAL TALK EPISODE 18. [RECORDED LIVE] What is it like to own a business in Marana?
It's the first LIVE-recorded episode of Real Talk with the Town, held at the Marana Chamber of Commerce's "Marana Insights" event! Town Manager Terry Rozema sits down with local business owners Kristi Barnett of HOTWORX-Tucson and Javier Avalos of Spectrum Ina Road Auto Collision to learn the truth about what it's like to own a business in Marana.
REAL TALK EPISODE 13. What's going up in Marana?
REAL TALK EPISODE 6: Will Marana get diverse and affordable housing in the future?
REAL TALK EPISODE 4: Why did the Town of Marana "throw the community under the bus" for Amazon?
The Town of Marana presents the fourth episode of “Real Talk with the Town”, where Town Manager Terry Rozema sits down with Development Services Director Jason Angell to talk about the history and development of the Amazon Distribution Center located at the Silverbell Road and Ina Road intersection and its impacts on the neighboring residents.
New industrial and retail buildings coming to Marana
May 2022 is Building Safety Month
Building Safety Month is an international campaign that takes place in May to raise awareness about building safety. This campaign reinforces the need for the adoption of modern, regularly-updated building codes, and helps individuals, families and businesses understand what it takes to create safe and sustainable structures.
Development Services Staff Awarded at AZBO
Marana remains resilient in face of virus
The Town of Marana has reached several milestones recently, most notably reaching 50,000 residents at the end of the 2019-2020 fiscal year. Despite the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, we continue to be a fast-growing community, and we look forward to Marana’s continued development in the coming years.
May 2020 is Building Safety Month
Two Town of Marana Staff Members Awarded at SACICC
Make Marana 2040: Final Public Hearing with Town Council
Utilizing Marana’s Development Services Department
The temperatures are starting to drop, and that means it’s the perfect time of year for construction and home renovations. As a homeowner interested in starting a home project, you may have questions about permits resources, and best practices when it comes to renovations or additions. Or, you may need a refresher course on some common safety tips pertaining to the holidays. The Town of Marana Development Services Department is a resource to help you with both, not just this time of year, but all year.
PRESS RELEASE: 2019 General Plan 60-day Public Review Underway
MARANA – Now’s your chance to review Marana’s 2019 General Plan and provide additional input. The 60-day review cycle is open until September 27, 2019, and you can review the document at www.MakeMarana2040.com.
As a rapidly growing community, Marana is developing ideas for your town’s future with the 2019 General Plan – Make Marana 2040.
Make Marana 2040 is the Town’s General Plan document and the primary tool that will be used to guide and manage future growth of our community. It includes the Town’s vision, goals, and policies for guiding future growth based on previous input from you, our residents.
The plan is grouped into three themes:
Built Environment – includes the physical features that create an attractive, efficient, and well-balanced community;
People and Community – includes goals and policies that create a greater sense of community and culture, fostering a higher quality of life for residents and visitors; and
Resources and Sustainability – seeks to balance growth and development with the need to protect and conserve natural resources to support a healthy environment for generations to come.
The possibilities for Marana are endless. Your input will help shape our community to ensure a great quality of life now and for future generations.
If you have questions or comments, please contact Cynthia Ross, Senior Planner, at cross@maranaaz.gov or 520-382-2651.
Make Marana General Plan 2040 Open House Overview
The second and final set of open houses for the Make Marana 2040 General Plan were held on June 19 and 20, 2019 at 6:00 PM. The June 19th open houses was held at the Marana Municipal Complex and the open house on the 20th was held at the Wheeler Taft Abbett Sr. Library. The objectives for this set of open houses were to:
Provide an update on the General Plan process and themes;
Present some of the major updates from the 2010 General Plan; and
Receive feedback on the draft goals and policies.
What Happened?
A total of 60 people attended the two open houses. Upon arriving, each attendee was asked to identify on a map, generally, where they live or work in Marana. This was done to see what areas of the town were represented in the open house. Attendees at the June 19th open house were widespread, but primarily reside in the area within and surrounding Downtown, including the Gladden Farms and San Lucas subdivisions. Attendees at the June 20th open house were mostly from communities along Silverbell Road, such as Continental Ranch.
The open house began with a short presentation informing attendees of the status of the General Plan Update, the organization of the General Plan, and the results from the first three workshops, and some of the important updates from the 2010 General Plan. After the presentation, the meeting concluded with an open house format in which attendees could view banners related to the three General Plan themes, as well as the draft Future Land Use Map, Circulation Map, and goals and policies. Comment cards were made available for any comments that attendees had throughout the open house.
View the open house brochure that was distributed at the meeting.
National Building Safety Month: Week 5 Innovations in building safety
Science and technology are leading the way for designing and constructing safe, efficient and resilient homes and buildings. Up-to-date building safety codes and standards enable technology to be incorporated into buildings while ensuring safety for lives, properties and investments.
The International Codes (I-Codes), developed by the International Code Council, are the most widely used and adopted set of building safety codes in the world and use the latest technology for energy and water savings for homeowners and businesses. The Town of Marana recently adopted the latest edition of these codes in an effort to stay on top of the latest innovations in building.
The building safety industry is on the cutting edge of technology and building science. From green construction and resiliency to product evaluation, certification, and codification, the ICC Family of Companies is part of this technological transformation to make our buildings safer and our industry more advanced.
Visit the International Code Council’s Website for more information on:
Green construction
Code compliant building products
Accreditation of entities that support code compliance
Building department codification
Resilience benchmarking
