According to the author, the objective of this article is "to be of assistance to Pinal County residents" and "help them better understand both the questions and the issues and elements" of the questionnaires generated by Pinal County to gather input from residents for the Pinal Comprehensive Plan.

To help residents' understanding of the questionaire, the Tri-Valley Dispatch "enlisted the aid of three individuals who represent a cross-section of the population in terms of being in favor of development, opposed or somewhere in between" and had each of the selected individuals comment on particular questions.

The table below is intended to help readers evaluate the answers to the questions in the Pinal Couny questionaire given by each of the selected representatives.
 

Steve Soriano, a resident of Maricopa County and senior vice president of acquisitions and development for Robson Communities, Inc.

Soriano was key in obtaining the Pinal County Supervisors approval of rezoning 2,500 acres for Robson's proposed SaddleBrooke Ranch, a golf-oriented retirement community planned to be built next to the Page-Trowbridge radioactive/toxic waste landfill.

In January, Pinal residents submitted more than twice the number of signatures to put the SaddleBrooke rezoning on the Nov. 2002 ballot.

As part of Robson's campaign against the referendum, Soriano Pinal County residents the company would donate $5,500,000 to Pinal County if "the referendum didn't appear on the ballot"; otherwise, Soriano said Robson would keep the money and use it to defeat the referendum.

Pat Dugan owned and operated a dairy business in Chandler until he sold the land to developers in 1985 and moved his operation to Pinal County.

According to this article, Dugan plans to develop his Pinal holdings when his current dairy operation has become obsolete.

Dugan is in his third year as a member of the Planning and Zoning Commission, having been appointed to the position by Jimmie Kerr.

Dugan voted to reccommend the supervisors approve the rezoning of the South Village of Willow Springs, even though the landowner, Anam Inc. violated over 13 provisions of the Pinal County Zoning Ordinance.

Dugan voted to recommend the supervisors approve the rezoning of SaddleBrooke Ranch, a golf-oriented community proposed to by built next to the Page-Trowbridge radioactive/toxic waste landfill by Robson Communities, Inc.

Last year Dugan recommended that the Pinal County Supervisors approve several rezonings for massive residential development that will result in at least 60,000 new houses in Pinal.

Margo Tamez is a member of Pinal Citizens for Sustainable Growth (PCSG), an organization founded in the Maricopa area, where she resides with her husband and children, and she is basically opposed to large master planned communities. Besides being a landowner, Tamez is an educator and author. She has been active politically, often appearing at Board of Supervisors and Planning and Zoning Commission hearings as well as conducting public meetings on behalf of PCSG with Maricopa-area developers, primarily to question the viability of the developments and to get assurances that they will not have a negative impact on the area's limited resources.