Villa de Paz Gazette in Review: Want to Know about Fluoride?

Staff Writer, DL Mullan
Water Fluoridation / Environmental Toxins
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Want to know more about fluoride? The VDP Gazette has some articles that we published over five years ago for your perusal:

• Fluoride Poisoning in a Fluoride Worshiping World
• The Fluoridation Equation and Movie Night. The Great Culling: Our Water
• Developmental Neurotoxicants Now include Fluoride and More Chemicals Still to be Tested
• Fluoride Combines with Aluminum to Create Toxicity
• Do You Want Some Cancer with Your Water?

Source: the VDP Gazette 

Have you gotten your Burn... Bern Notice?

Staff Writer, DL Mullan
Democrats / Espionage / Marketing

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Did you receive this note in your inbox:

Then you may want to know the definition of a Burn Notice.

a notice issued by intelligence agencies that dismisses an agent because they've been considered unreliable or dangerous.

So what is the Bernie Sanders campaign telling us?


Source: Bernie Sanders Campaign 

Bulk Trash Pickup Begins Tomorrow

Staff Writer, DL Mullan
Community News / Bulk Trash
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Bulk Trash for Villa de Paz is as follows for this quarter:

Bulk Pick-Up Day

Placement:	Your last placement started on Jan 2 2016
Start collection:	Jan 11 2016

Source: City of Phoenix

City of Phoenix Votes on Villa de Paz Recreation Center Illegal Sale and Development Plans

Staff Writer, DL Mullan 

Villa de Paz / City of Phoenix
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Again the residents of Villa de Paz are fighting against the illegal sale and development of land within its borders. This time the land is owned by the residents, which is being ignored for the dreams of development.

Villa de Paz is more than just one square mile:

A Place Like No Other

Villa de Paz is described as such. Not many places in the world can boast this exalted reputation. Villa de Paz is not like most other destinations on Earth for a few simple reasons: the residents, the wildlife, and the ambiance.

We are a Master Planned Golf Community that continues to battle against the overstepping of authority and boundaries of the City of Phoenix. In the last few years, Villa de Paz has battled against development on our Golf Course and now a new development with the Recreation Center.

A Home Owners Association (HOA) has claimed ownership and debt to a piece of history and land that this illegal organization does not own. The City of Phoenix continues to support and encourage the ramblings of an uncouth woman from Avondale over the prudent, researched, and educated information from its own residents.

A grander scheme plays but if development occurs, then there are no winners. The City of Phoenix will lose. When the golf course was threatened, 1700 letters flooded City Hall in revolt. As news spread about the sale of the Recreation Center, 700 letters opposed this action. 440 emails were sent, again in opposition. 11 out of the 15 HOA members refused to support the sale, development, and building on land that belongs to Villa de Paz residents, outright and legally.

This land has not and never will be owned by corporate interests, including a for profit organization, HOA, city, or individuals: in this case being [ ] White et al.

Yet the City of Phoenix continues to ignore crucial facts in order to energize a non-resident in her fiction of ownership.

These acts are folly.

Villa de Paz is not only a historical community within the borders of the City of Phoenix; Villa de Paz is a Sanctuary. Birds, fish, tortoises, reptiles, and humans cohabitate in this one square mile area. Our geography has created within itself a life sustaining symbiosis of creatures: plant and animal.

From Bald Eagles to unbanded Canadian Geese to endangered and greatest conservation needs species, a unique, balanced ecosystem has emerged. Even to tear one fraction of the whole away would create enough dysfunction to destabilize the entirety of the region.

Villa de Paz has become more than a Master Planned Golf Community; it has become a significant Natural Heritage site in Arizona where acts of Congress and treaties with other nations are brought to life.

If 12 homes are built on illegally obtain[ed] land, those responsible would violate the Migratory Bird Act of 1918, for starters. In accordance with the Act: “All guns, traps, nets, vessels, vehicles and other equipment used in pursuing, hunting, taking, trapping, ensnaring, capturing, killing, or any attempt on a migratory bird in violation of the Act with the intent to sell or barter, must be forfeited to the U.S. and may be seized and held pending prosecution of the violator. The property is to be disposed of and accounted for by the Secretary. § 707.” Large construction vehicles, loud noises, heavy commercial traffic, fumigation and pesticides, disruption of soil and the release of Valley Fever would qualify as destroying habitat, bird migration patterns, and bird reproduction as well as the killing of said species, young and old.

Instead of protecting the endangered and greatest conservation needs species that dwell within our borders, the City of Phoenix pursues violation of federal law. For what? Is it really sustainable to destroy a sanctuary to fulfill a quota? Or is that just immoral, irresponsible, and irrational?

The Mayor and City Council work for Phoenix residents, not Avondale residents. Why this illegitimate course is being pursued is beyond unreasonable. There will be no winners if the City of Phoenix abandons its responsibility to its residents in hopes to satisfy an outlandish fantasy.

I, like my fellow residents of Villa de Paz, am a Voter as well as Tax Payer.

Perhaps the Mayor and Council members should also calculate those facts in their equations when voting on this matter. Villa de Paz’s residents and our wildlife matter. We matter more than delusional people and destructive self interest.

A Place Like No Other exists as apart of our Arizona history, heritage, and culture, and a place like this one cannot be replaced by money.

The MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY ACT 16 U.S.C. §§ 703-712, July 3, 1918, as amended 1936, 1960, 1968, 1969, 1974, 1978, 1986 and 1989.

If the City of Phoenix votes today and approves the killing and destruction of endangered and greatest conservation needs species, the Mayor and Council members will directly and indirectly violate federal law and an assortment of ongoing treaties with other nations. 

If you are caught in the commission of a or many felonies, like selling land that is not legally yours to sell, taking off 40 year old stipulations for profit to residents in other cities, then you are also charged with felonies that are in direct and indirect correlation to the primary felony. such as setting habitat destruction and endangered species deaths, not to mention the Endangered Species Act of 1973.

So what crimes are the City of Phoenix's Mayor and City Council guilty of besides the obvious international, federal, state, and local ones? 

Phoenix residents like the ones in Villa de Paz need to hold our elected officials to account. Illegal and unlawful acts are not why we elected people to serve us. It appears our elected officials do not believe they serve anyone else, but themselves. 

It is time that unethical philosophy changes. 

Call them today and voice your outrage against their actions: 

Mayor Stanton 602 262-7111 mayor.stanton@phoenix.gov

Vice Mayor Valenzuela @602 262-7446, council.district.5@phoenix.gov

Jim Waring 602 262-7445 council.district.2@phoenix.gov
Laura Pastor 602 262-7447 council.district.4@phoenix.gov
Sal DiCiccio 602 262-7491, council.district.6@phoenix.gov
Kate Gallego 602 262-7493 council.district.8@phoenix.gov
Thelda Williams 602 262-7444 council.district.1@phoenix.gov
Bill Gates 602 262-7441 council.district.3@phoenix.gov
Michael Nowakoswski 602 262-7492 council.district.7@phoenix.gov

Thank you.


Source: FWS, Endangered Species Act of 1973,

Villa de Paz Bulk Trash Dates for July 2014

Staff Writer, DL Mullan
Bulk Trash / Phoenix
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 Here is the current schedule for Bulk Trash in Villa de Paz.

Garbage/Recycle Pick-Up
Garbage Pick-Up Day: FRIDAY
Recycle Pick-Up Day: FRIDAY

Bulk Pick-Up Day
Placement: Your last placement started on Jul 5 2014
Start collection: Jul 14 2014


Source: City of Phoenix

April Bulk Trash Pick Up Date

Staff Writer, DLMullan
Bulk Trash / Community Interest
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Villa de Paz remember that Bulk Trash is this month:

Bulk Pick-Up Day

Placement:	Your last placement started on Apr 5 2014
Start collection:	Apr 14 2014

Set it out if you have it!


Source: Phoenix City Services

Free Energy is Not a Scam: Our Fake Reality is

Staff Writer, DL Mullan
Physics / Social Justice / History  / Banking  / Education
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Welcome to Reality. The biggest ponzi scam of the ultimate pyramid scheme that has ever existed. You are living in this matrix. 

Sounds hard to believe, doesn't it? 

What about free energy? Extraterrestrials? What if all you believed was a lie? The reality of an electromagnetic universe that could supply humanity with clean energy, wealth, prosperity, and peace does exist and you aren't being told about these wonderful advancements.

Wouldn't that make you mad? The Thrive Movement not only seeks to answer your questions but also to empower you to create a better world for everyone.

Thrive: What will it take?

Does their documentary sound far fetched or too good to be true? Does the alternative we are living now look better? Take a gander for yourself. 

Much of the facts that have been covered on the VDP Gazette have been individually verified via the Thrive Movement and its documentary. 

So pull up a chair and get ready to view the world you really live in. 

As an answer to the documentary, The Villa de Paz Gazette is funded solely by its Editor, DL Mullan. The Gazette takes no corporate money or advertisement of any kind. The only funding source the Gazette would ever consider would be from the Villa de Paz community itself. Even then, the VDP Gazette will remain independent, truth seeking, investigative, vigilant, and geared toward the ideals of liberty and justice for all. 

The VDP Gazette's Editor cannot envision a working Fifth Estate such as media in any other way. 

Now, on with the show...

Thrive: What will it take?

Every single one of us.

Villa de Paz, A Community Like No Other, Wins Their Fight

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

Community Interest

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After a community meeting with Arizona State Senator, Steve Gallardo and District 5 Councilman, Daniel Valenzuela on January 7th, Villa de Paz has again proven that one person, one group of residents can make their voices heard and win. 

As of January 14, 2014, the Phoenix City Planning Commission voted to accepted the withdrawn application from Maple Leaf International Properties. 

To the local west valley newspaper that writes negative articles about Villa de Paz and our Golf Course... um, we WON. Maybe the paper should do balanced stories with interviews with community members and not just corporate lawyers who lost their campaign of destruction. If you are going to be a news outlet for west valley residents, then perhaps you might want to talk to some of them.

Villa de Paz has much more to accomplish in the coming months, but the first hurdle has been reached and crossed successfully. 

Thank you to everyone in our community who has tirelessly worked to bring about this positive outcome. Many individuals donated their time and expertise to fight this invasion. That is the definition of community and team work.

Now, onto the next... working with Bridge Partners to find ways to make this a win-win for all parties involved and reinstitute all of the stipulations Villa de Paz was originally annexed by the City of Phoenix so we can save some Arizona history and wildlife for future generations.

Villa de Paz Bulk Trash Dates

Staff Writer, DL Mullan
Community Interest
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Villa de Paz, it's that time of the year again. Bulk Trash pick up begins right after the new year.

Next Placement Begins On	Saturday, January 04, 2014
Next Collection Begins Week Of	Monday, January 13, 2014
Nearest Transfer Station	27th Avenue Solid Waste Management Facility

Source: City of Phoenix

New Menu Link: Help Save VDP Golf Course

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

Community Interest

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If you have not kept up on the VDP Gazette's latest news, or our popular articles, then you would not know that Villa de Paz is under attack.

Some developer out of Canada wants to fill our green, wildlife refuge, and 40 year old community golf course with houses.

You read that right: Cookie-Cutter Houses in lieu of Environmental Green Space.

Part of the stipulations put into place by the City of Phoenix during our Annexation in the 1990's were removed. These stipulations were to safeguard our community from just this type of hostile take over. Instead the City removed these zoning regulations without the residents of Villa de Paz's knowledge.

We have two community associates that were viable and available at the time of the initial move to take away these stipulations but these entities were never contacted either. Which leaves many questions as to why the stipulations were removed in the first place and if there has been gross misconduct by the developers, lawyers, and the city itself.

In all reality if a community approved stripping their own stipulations for a new development, wouldn't there have been a group of representatives from Villa de Paz at the City Council meetings? You see our point. 

Villa de Paz wants your help to fight the influx of developments in the West Valley because politicians and developers do not consider the real needs of the community only the lining of their pocketbooks. 

To garner more support, Villa de Paz Gazette has added a menu link that goes straight to the SAVE Villa de Paz Facebook page. 

Join our fight today! 

NO MORE INFILLING!

Get together. Get mobilized. Get answers!

The Lies to Pave Paradise With, Real Estate and Politics

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

ICLEI / Sustainability

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"They paved Paradise and put in a Parking Lot," Joni Mitchell, Amy Grant, and the Counting Crows have sang.

Why would anyone want to pave Paradise?

That is where sustainability comes in with its "infilling." Pretty soon the town or city you know will look like an urban wasteland. Or perhaps suburban wasteland is a more accurate phrase.

Where trees, grass, and wildlife used to flourish, asphalt, brick, and petrochemicals now reside. If sustainability is really about environmentalism and not a political tool for communistic regionalism, then wouldn't towns and cities do everything possible to cultivate green spaces?

Photo Credit: John LeMay

Villa de Paz is the perfect balance between green and suburban.  Animals and humans live in harmony together. The community could not be more environmentally friendly.

Here we see a common sight during the spring on the golf course: a mother duck with her ducklings. Golfers still golf. Neighbors take pictures. Ducks are raised and sent into the world.

Natural coexistence is a beautiful thing to behold.

Villa de Paz does not need fancy brochures or website to sell their homes.

Realtors do not have a hard time marketing the already mature development with golf course access, beautiful trees, and wildlife galore.

One current listing on Hazelwood states: "Bring your serious buyers. Seller not negotiating much on this well laid out property. There are before and after photos to appreciate the pride of ownership. The upgrades were well thought out. Truly a gem in this established golf course community."

Another two listings, this time for Fairway Villas, boasts: "BRAND NEW COMMUNITY!! Overlooking Via De Paz Golf Course."

If this active community is all about the Golf Course, then why is the City of Phoenix in such a hurry to do away with it? Villa de Paz is in a battle with a ravenous developer to destroy the very thing that makes the community a viable, beautiful, and living wildlife refuge: the Golf Course.

This attack on community stipulations and families only comes when politicians buy into false claims of sustainability. Thanks to the sustainability push, cities are indoctrinated to believe: "We will build mass transit and they will come. If they don't come, well, we'll force the issue." This line of thinking is corrupt and illogical.

ICLEI and the City of Phoenix are terrible bed fellows. If the city has to destroy beauty in order to fit into the sustainability nonsense model, then the city needs to re-think its membership as well as its mission, vision, and goals.

Who wants to live in a city without character or charm and that looks like every other city in the United States? Who wants to defund social programs when the average age of a homeless person in Arizona is seven years and divert that money to "light rail?" It is baseless and stupid.

According to Phoenix Rescue Mission, Phoenix has more to worry about than a supposed volunteer sustainable scam, there are 10 Facts about Homelessness in Arizona politicians need to read before sending away anymore funding to this ruse.  

Of course there is a revenue side to this story, but as Resilient Communities points out: "It’s not just forests that are torn down. Arable land for crops is often destroyed as the suburbs stretch further and further from the main city. The new roads burden local government with maintenance costs that create problems within years of building."

The plans and promises may look good to a city in these hard economic times but in the long run, the cities pay the price of up keep long after developers leave with their thirty pieces of silver.

People are tired of the 'smash everyone into small living spaces' philosophy to satisfy false and misleading environmental rhetoric. People are tired of being used as renters and not proprietors of their own property: "Homeowners spend enormous amounts of money on maintenance, HOA fees, and yard work for a home that doesn’t produce anything." Why shouldn't people leave the cities for a better life elsewhere?

The math is very simple. As we drive faster and faster down the road of sustainability, the more and more environment we lose to be sustainable. Sustainability should not be measured in fearmongering CO2 levels that have no basis in fact. Sustainability should be based on water tables, clean air, less traffic, and communion with nature and wildlife.

"Much of what we discuss here is aimed at shifting the balance away from a broken system that often seems hell-bent to destroy every natural resource we cherish. Parks become retail shopping meccas, forests become industrial centers and all the while, we are losing sight of the most sustainable resource we have – the ability to grow food. "

That is what this fight has come down to: shifting the balance away from a broken system that often seems hell-bent on destroying every natural resource we cherish for the false promises of revenue and sustainability.

As a resident of Villa de Paz, I hope that the soul of Phoenix, Arizona can still be saved from the idols and false prophets filling the political checking accounts of the City Council members who took an oath to uphold the Constitution and be a leader amongst people, not sheep leading their communities into an unsustainable nightmare of a wasteland.

Source: Realtor, Realtor

Who Let the Dogs Out?

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

Community Interest / Pets

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Sometimes people have to make light of a serious situation. Like, who is letting their dogs out at night or during the morning without supervision? Phoenix has a Leash Law. So if you cannot keep your dogs safe, then adopt them out to someone who will. A pet at the vet for being hit by a car is heartbreaking to a family.

As you know, Villa de Paz is currently fighting a developer and the city against a proposed housing development as well as accusations of our community being run down. 

It might be a once and awhile occurrence but please, respect your pets. Respect your neighbors. Respect the community of Villa de Paz: keep your canines in your yard or on a leash.

Let's show the world that our community means more to us than not picking up our own backyards.

Your neighbors thank you.

Villa de Paz Residents Fight Developer

Staff Writer, Jeff O'Toole

Community Interest

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Please take the time to view the short presentation full of facts and information as well as contact ALL the Phoenix City Council Members. Names and contact information on the Youtube page.

Villa de Paz Residents Fight Developer Video Presentation

Save Villa de Paz Facebook Page

Source: Youtube

Happy Thanksgiving! Be Good to Each Other

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

Community Interest

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Everyone in the Villa de Paz Community and Gazette want to wish our readers a very Happy Thanksgiving.

We're taking today off and maybe even tomorrow because holidays are about family and friends, not shopping. 

It is one thing to want to increase your store's revenue; it is another to do it at the expense of families.

If you want to return to American values then vote with your dollar: stop shopping on holidays and give someone else a break. We do not need Black Friday. We have the internet to shop until we drop. We do not need to do in-store shopping, retailers can offer their discounted wares on the Saturday AFTER Thanksgiving and also not on Christmas Eve or Christmas itself. 

I for one cannot wait for the American culture to switch back to help your neighbor instead of today's selfish: ME, ME, ME. 

So take these next four days to unwind and unplug... and help your wife/mother around the kitchen and house. She is your wife/mother, not your servant. The game on tv or via a console can wait. 

Remember we are only here for a finite amount of time. Use it wisely. Be with family and friends, not the TV or cashier's counter.

Some friendly advice from someone who does not have a lot of time left on this Earth. 

I'm going to go share my holiday with my feline associates whom I love very much. These little friends have become my family and rightfully so, they take as good of care of me as I do of them. Synergy is a wonderful lifestyle.

Have a great and wonderful holiday!  

Editor and Writer,

DL Mullan ;)--=

Residents of Villa de Paz at Phoenix Officer Hearing Decision

Staff Writer, DL Mullan
Community Interest
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The City of Phoenix Council Chambers were not ready for the citizenry of Villa de Paz to storm the castle. Here are pictures of residents going into the chambers as well as filling the chambers to capacity. One thing about this neighborhood is their sense of community.

Visit their efforts to save their golf course on Facebook. 

Source: Villa de Paz Residents

Vulture Capitalists Set Sights on Valley Green Spaces

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

Community Interest

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The Wigwam Golf Course like the Villa de Paz Golf Course is in the crosshairs of greedy developers as well. These two courses are not alone. Across the nation, golf courses have seen a decline in holes played, not because people have lost love for the game, but because of the financial hardship the markets have endured unemploying millions.

With the real estate bubble burst, many Americans have felt the pinch in their pocketbooks. From underemployment or being on unemployment, Americans have been hit the hardest for underhanded, gambling practices of the banks and Wall Street. Instead of waiting out the recession caused by big business, golf courses are selling out to the corporate bullies leaving communities ravaged.

Reston in Fairfax County is facing the same destruction of their lifestyle and community as is Villa de Paz. "It is reasonable to assume if we do not take this action, the price of our homes will be dramatically affected and overall real estate values will be degraded when the homes are no longer located on or near a golf course," John Pinkman of Reston said. "Not to mention the effect on the quality of the life you intended to lead when you purchased your home."

Expectation, like with all master planned communities, the residents have an expectation that results from living in a golf course community. 

The residents at Reston have also taken to the internet to let others know of these backdoor dealings to destroy green areas for housing developments at RescueReston.org.

Join us in our fight against big corporate interests destroying our Villa de Paz community, the Wigwam Resort, Reston, and other places of respite all across the nation. Call, email your city today. Here is ours: City of Phoenix Council Members: 

 Councilwoman Williams  602-262-7444  council.district.1@phoenix.gov

Councilman Waring  602-262-7445  council.district.2@phoenix.gov

Councilman Gates  602-262-7441  council.district.3@phoenix,gov

Councilman Valenzuela  602-262-7446  council.district.5@phoenix.gov

CouncilmanDiCiccio  602-262-7491  council.district.6@phoenix.gov

Councilman Nowakowski  602-262-7492  council.district.7@phoenix.gov 

Every email and phone call counts even if you live next to one of these communities. So please start writing and calling today!

Source: West Valley View, Reston Patch

Residents Set to Rally at Planning Hearing

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

Community Interest

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Villa de Paz Residents are rallying at the Planning Hearing Officer Decision on Wednesday, November 20th at 10am. The meeting was moved to the City Council Chambers, 200 West Jefferson Street, Phoenix, 85003 because of the massive turn out of nearly 300 residents at the prior Maryvale Village Planning Meeting, which they won 12 to 1.

Every effort is being made. Fliers, emails, phone calls, and home visits, Villa de Paz residents are organized and on the move. Nothing is being left to chance.

Since the Villa de Paz neighborhood agreed to be annexed by the City of Phoenix 20 years ago, resident's expectations to live in a golf course community is well established. Now mandated stipulations require this area to remain an 18-hole golf course.

Maple Leaf International Properties wants the City of Phoenix to remove these mandated stipulations, so they can build houses on the golf course. 

Over the last month, Villa de Paz residents have seen themselves as David trying to slay a corporate Goliath by trying to stop an unneeded, unnecessary, and downright unfathomable housing development from being built in the middle of the 40 year old community. 

The question remains: will the City of Phoenix hold up its end of the bargain and dismiss the developer's request for approval of his money making-scheme?

Or will residents have to remind the City of Phoenix of its obligations by fighting all the way to the City Council?

From the sheer will and perseverance with fact and expectation, how could anyone in good conscious vote against the residents of Villa de Paz?

Source: Community Flier

Villa de Paz

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

Community Interest

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Villa de Paz is a place unlike any other. I have lived in Iowa and California. I have traveled across the United States. I have seen New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. I have traveled and explored the crevices of Arizona as well. Nothing compares to the little golf community of Villa de Paz.

Village of Peace... quiet, understated, demur, but not obsolete. Ducks, Canadian geese, quail, doves, pigeons, osprey, hawks, owls, vultures, seagulls and cranes grace the sky, trees, and ponds. It's where turtles cross the streets and children play on their bicycles.

In the mornings, students walk to school with their backpacks on. In the evenings, people return home from work. On the weekends, families barbeque.

Retired couples relax and spend their golden years in style. Young couples raise their children without fear of overcrowded streets, sprayed poisons, or drag racing. It's a place where everyone fits just right in a mold all its own.

If you are in need of help, all you have to do is ask. One of your neighbors are bound to lend a hand. Sometimes two do.

Villa de Paz cannot be replicated because it has taken decades to form with care, ethics, values, and strength. The golf course is the center that keeps the shape, feel, and culture of this small community alive and well. Without the golf course, the community would not be the same and the allure that brings people here would not survive as it once was.

Sometimes change is good, but when that change comes at the cost of your community, your neighbors, and your values, then change is best left to other places. Here in Villa de Paz, it's like coming home even if it's your first visit. There's something about this golf course community that attracts people from differing walks of life. 

Without the golf course, Villa de Paz would lose what makes it special. Unique. We have peace, quiet, wildlife, and a little extra space away from the crowded lights of the other meccas that allow us to stargaze every night. 

Why would anyone want to come in and destroy such beauty? 

Money? Greed? For overflowing accounts someone already has? Or is envious to obtain? Seems trifle and silly to me. Sometimes it takes a community to stand together and just say: "NO!"

When you have perfection, why would you want anything else?

Residents Picket Golf Course for Redress

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

Community Interest

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On November 12, 2013, residents of the golf community, Villa de Paz, picketed the neighborhood's golf course's club house. Not for better pay or cheaper tee prices, but to keep the golf course apart of their community as a golf course. 

Confused yet?

A Canadian developer is hell bent on turning the residents beloved golf course community into a cash cow of HOA fees with new housing and possible condominiums by destroying their golf course in order to do it.

Does that explain the uproar?

The residents, who are eager to keep their community as it is, decided that picketing was a good option to bring attention to their cause. Attention they got. The efforts of the neighborhood to combat the false promises and deceptive practices of the developer's public relations team has become a force to be reckoned with. 

In a short time, the residents have banded together to win the Maryvale Village Planning Committee's vote against the development 12 to 1. With 150 speaking on behalf of keeping their golf course intact.

Now the residents have to face the Phoenix City Planning Hearing Office on November 20th, 2013 at 10am. Calvin Goode Building , 251 West Washington Street, 85003. 10th Floor, East Conference Room. 

As the developer continues to push residents and place his needs over the community's interests, Villa de Paz residents keep building a stronger case to maintain their living standards. The push back has become fever pitched. 

The golf course can be sold as a golf course, but development money has outweighed the sanctity of the community's culture and way of life. Sanctity of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness reigns supreme. Villa de Paz residents only want what every American wants: to live in peace. 

Hopefully the City of Phoenix Planning Office and Planning Commission will realize that burdening a small community with overflow traffic, extra students at the local elementary school, more crime, destruction of a green zone and its ecosystem full of wild life, and increasing light pollution, not to mention the clamoring before dawn and health concerns associated with construction in a desert environment so close to private homes, is not a viable outcome, then will the developer understand that money is really no object because some communities cannot be bought.

There is no amount of money in the world that Villa de Paz residents would sell out their community, neighbors, or culture for.

Don't you wish every community was like this one?

12-1 Villa de Paz Residents WIN First Round

Writer, Jeff O'Toole
Community Interest

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When the Villa de Paz neighborhood agreed to be annexed by the City of Phoenix 20 years ago, they mandated stipulations requiring the 18-hole golf course land could only be used as a golf course. Now Welker Development Resources is trying to get the City of Phoenix to remove these stipulations, so they can build housing on the golf course instead.

Villa de Paz residents have been engaged in a battle with the developer over the last month trying to stop a housing development from being built in the middle of their 40yr old community. Last night at the Hope Center in Villa de Paz at 6:00pm, the Maryvale Village Planning Commission voted on the proposal to remove the golf course stipulation. Over 200 residents attended this meeting. Of the 151 people that filled out cards marking if they approved or opposed, 150-1 marked opposed. You will find attached two pictures of each side of the gym that was filled during the meeting.

The Commission heard presentations from the developer and the opposing neighborhood residents and voted 12-1 OPPOSED to removing the golf course stipulation. This is a key win for the neighborhood. From here the fight goes to the Planning Hearing Officer next Wednesday at 10:00am and ultimately to City Council on February 5th.

Here is a video of the actual vote. (At this point, the meeting has lasted 3.5 hrs and several residents have had to leave).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGn9t4Q8AQE

Please contact me directly for specific details on this story at 843-261-4757.

Thank you for your interest.