Friday, Jul 8 2011 3:29PM
Some residents of Mobile, a community of Goodyear, Arizona, say they have little or no access to many services, including water and wastewater infrastructure.
Residents living in Mobile, Arizona, a community in the city of Goodyear, currently have limited access to city resources due to its remote location and lack water or wastewater infrastructure, reports the Arizona Republic.
Mobile annexed into Goodyear in 2007, according to the paper. However, the city has failed to provide residents of Mobile with basic services. Some Mobile residents have expressed displeasure with the lack of quick fire and police response and paved roads.
Rural residents in the community have had to make their own water wells, septic systems and alternative energy sources to make up for the lack of basic needs provided by Goodyear.
The city provides $500,000 in services to Mobile, but residents state more funding is needed.
"We're not getting what was promised," Ed Barnes, who has lived in Mobile for 13 years, told the Republic.
Mark Stapp, executive director of the Master of Real Estate Development program at Arizona State University's W.P. Carey School of Business, told the paper annexing communities into cities can be "risky" in terms of providing services to the additional residents.