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Growth accelerated in the smaller West Valley cities in more recent years. Census Bureau figures show, as increasing numbers of people choose to buy homes in the newest neighborhoods. The Maricopa Association of Governments projects that the cities on the Valley's outer edges will lead the pack over the next decade and beyond. For example, MAG projects that Goodyear will grow by an astounding 750 percent between 1995 and 2025, followed by Tolleson (about 400 percent), Litchfield Park (about 375 percent) and Surprise and Buckeye (each about 350 percent). row fflwm GlendalePeoria NE Comer ol 59lti Ave.

4 Bel Rd. 602-439-891 1 fashion that fits! sononAt AMtac The best team in town TempeMesa NE Corner ol McCbntock Dr I Southern Ave 480-897-6777 Hot Summer nCUMS, firm lige I Maricopa County planners say, but they oiler a hint of what the West Valley might look like on paper once the official census is completed next year. What most cities will be is bigger. Growth fed nearly every corner of the Valley's west side, from Goodyear, which exploded by 144 percent between 1990 and July of last year, to Peoria, which has posted a 70 percent growth rate. Even Wick-enburg grew by nearly 20 percent over the past eight years.

Census Bureau demographer Marc Perry said small to midsize communities are growing rapidly throughout the country, for different reasons. Some benefit from expanding urban centers, others from city residents fleeing to suburbs. Maricopa County status as the nation's fastest-growing county assures high rates in most of its cities, "but that's not the whole story," Perry said. "It becomes a case of looking at it on a map, at every city. It's hard to speak generally." Cities and counties watch population numbers carefully, and it's not just so someone can go update the sign at the border.

Many state and federal revenue sources are based on population, and to a growing city in need of money to serve new residents, every extra dollar counts. "It's critical we have as good a count as possible," Peoria Mayor John Keegan said. "It makes a tremendous difference in terms of state and federal money that comes into the city and the resources we have to provide services." The 2000 census is expected to elevate Peoria to big-city status, a category reserved for cities with a Community COMMUNITY, from Page 1 Superior Court, describing what they claim to be some of the tactics used in collecting signatures. Pamela Massat claims in one affidavit that she overheard a conversation in which opponent Roger Seay solicited a signature from an elderly man. Seay told the man the towers -were "were being strategically located so that the Mexicans could communicate with the Mexican people in the southern and northern parts of Arizona to coordinate efforts of a Mexican uprising to take back the state of Arizona," Massat claimed in the affidavit.

In a telephone interview last week, Seay called that allegation a lie. In another affidavit, John Byler describes another approach that he claims was made Feb. 1 by Seay and Richard Herlocker, then a member of the Yavapai County Planning and Zoning Commission. "I was told by them that the radio towers produce radio waves of such a magnitude that the waves would cause significant health problems and affect the operation of appliances and automobiles," Byler says in the document. "In particular they told me that if a vehicle sits near a tower long enough that when somebody tries to open the doors that they would get shocked.

They have also told me that the radio waves would cause cancer." Seay called that allegation "an absolute lie," but Herlocker said there is nothing outlandish about Byler's affidavit. Herlocker, a former assistant broadcast engineer for a radio station in Albuquerque, said there is an ongoing national debate about the health risks that may be posed by radio transmission towers. "Radio-frequency burns not only are conceivable but nasty," he said. "I've had them." Herlocker said that because of his partisan efforts against the towers, he was forced in late March by Bill Feldmeier, a member of the Yavapai County Board of Su LJl lliiiiiti.iMirii.i.iiiiniiiniiiiViiiiiriiin ".2 TZz 12 Vr.3 Call for FREE In-home estimate year guarantee on every installation! Experienced installers on staff Serving the valley for 26 years. Shopping for Ceramic over 1000 tiles We can save you money! compare i save Sec us before you buy! Best Prices ft Quality Cool Savings on 18x18 Ceramic Hie $1.79 at Compare at $3.59 2 Colors Available Quality Installation Available 16x16 Ceramic Tile $1.59 Compare at $3.59 7 Colors Available Quality Installation Available A Cactus 11649 N.

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Phoenix, by Census Bureau standards, is a major city, defined as having a population of more than 500,000. Keegan said Peoria's membership in the 100,000 club could produce benefits beyond added government money, including a better shot at attracting businesses. Glendale's rapid growth in the past decade has elevated it above many older cities around the country, including Salt Lake City, Orlando and Providence. The difference is, Glendale is considered a suburb, while the others are cores of much divided over pervisors, to step down trom tne Planning and Zoning Commission. Now he is leading a recall drive against Feldmeier for a vote in which he and fellow supervisors voted 3-0 to approve the towers.

"From an ethical point of view, he (Feldmeier) probably was right in asking me to resign," Herlocker said. "But he has completely lost touch with the people in supporting these radio towers." Feldmeier said Herlocker failed to maintain the neutrality he expects from somebody who sits on a county board. Z-Spanish, the operator of KUET-AM (710), broadcasts with two 351 -foot towers on federal land northeast of Black Canyon City. It claims that the towers are inadequate for sending a strong signal to the Valley and elsewhere. Torres said the Bureau of Land Management won't allow expansion at the tower site, so KUET struck a deal to build seven towers on part of a 157-acre ranch operated by Howard Kale, a Valley horseman.

The 197-foot towers will be configured in such a way that KUET will get the signal that it needs but will be low enough under federal regulations to be painted with desert hues instead of reflective colors and don't have to be lighted at night. It's all part of an aggressive plan by Z-Spanish, which is based in Sacramento, for a stronger presence in Arizona, Torres said. The network also operates KLNZ-FM (103.5) in Glendale, KVVA-FM (107.1) in Phoenix, KCDX-FM (103.1) in Florence and KAPR-AM (930) in Douglas. Z-Spanish radio owns more than 30 stations and wants to own 50 and become publicly traded by late this year or early 2000. Some residents in Black Canyon City, including Linda Sortor, a real-estate broker, support the towers.

"The positive things that the community will get, including the equestrian park, outweigh the negative things that have been said about theni," she said. In February, the opponents filed Here's your invitation to join the new 00 710 E. Union Hills Dr NORTH CENTRAL PHOENIX 580-4881 (ABCO Desert Market Center) Sun City West 584-5434 1998, A Dane Work) of Phoenix Franchise 25 radio towers petitions with Yavapai County seeking a referendum on the tower issue. The petitions contained 9,408 signatures, including 7,224 that were deemed valid, well in excess of the 4,849 needed to put the issue before the voters. Z-Spanish countered with a lawsuit claiming that the referendum should be disallowed because fewer than 4,000 of the signatures were gathered by circulators who live in Yavapai County.

Tower opponents claim that under a 1999 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in a Colorado case, the signatures gathered by the non-county circulators should be counted. A hearing on the pending lawsuit is set for July 27. Brent Whiting can be reached at (602) 444-7119 or at brent.whitingpni.com via e-mail. CRAFTERS CHOICE ARTIST BRUSHES Reg.

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