Marana’s largest neighborhood and community of Continental Ranch had a recall vote that happened on Jan 30^th, 2008. Continental Ranch Community Association President Nicole Glasner and first Vice president Tom Licht retained their seats even though the majority of the votes were against them. The association has claimed that there were not enough valid ballots to officially oust the two members. Only 747 out of the total 1444 could be counted as official votes either for or against the members of Continental Ranch neighborhood most all the votes were against but the catch is that since only 747 official votes could be counted and the minimum of 1000 valid votes were necessary to oust the board members. As a resident of the area I can say that this seems to be a fine print measure for these board members to keep their spots, in my opinion they should both just resign and put an end to the unrest of residents vs. the HOA boards. This whole mess began because the board decided that Continental Ranch members did not need their trash picked up twice a week but once a week after they made that decision they failed to mention it to the homeowners (or made a very weak attempt to anyway) and this outraged the Continental Ranch residents shortly after this you could see petitions and drives to organize and get the board member off the board. The garbage issue in my opinion was just the tipping point the HOA for years has been very hard (again my opinion) on home owners and enforcing the rules even the smallest of them. Now having said that Continental Ranch does look very attractive and most of the credit could be placed with the HOA for running such a tight ship, BUT don’t get me wrong there is not very many residents that were ever happy with the HOA and all the rules and fines that were handed out regularly to the point of it being almost beyond reasonable. The next agenda for the board is to replace the former property management company Platinum Management INC after they said they would be ending the contract with Continental Ranch over all the unrest in the community. My guess is after a month or two things will settle down and life will go on in Continental Ranch neighborhood.

Areas of Continental Ranch and Continental Reserve (located on the northwest side of Tucson at Silverbell and Cortaro Rd) are being developed for commercial purposes and have been for the past 3 years. All along Cortaro, just west of I-10, properties have been continuously developed and now offer residents extreme convenience, and most residents never have to cross I-10 to get anything they are in search of. In the past few years, a Super Wal-Mart, Kohls, Checker, Autozone (automotive stores), Chili’s, Ace Hardware, Fry’s, Chase, Bank of America, Movie Theater Complex, several restaurants, and service providers have made Continental Ranch and Continental Reserve home to their businesses. Just a few years ago, an urgent care center was built, providing medical care.