Prop 404: Where should the gravel pit go?

What’s on your ballot

Prop 404 is a thumbs up or thumbs down on one decision the Town Council already made.

Despite the number, it has nothing to do with the internet’s “page not found” error. Its 39 acres are very much findable, on the town’s south edge.

Prescott Valley’s laws are made by the Town Council, seven people elected by town voters, including the mayor. Most of the time, when the council votes on something, that settles it. Arizona gives residents one way to hit pause. If enough voters sign a petition in time, the council’s decision goes to the whole town for a vote. That’s called a referendum, and the ballot says so in its title: “Referendum ordered by petition of the people.” Ballot

The decision on your ballot is a town law called Ordinance 2026-974. An ordinance is just what a town calls a law it passes. This one changes the zoning on one piece of land. Ordinance

Every piece of land in town has a zoning label. The label says what’s allowed there: homes, stores, factories and so on. Government Tank’s label right now is RL-70, which is for single-family homes. The ordinance would switch it to IG, an industrial label, with a special permit for a sand and gravel operation. That permit is called a conditional use permit, because it comes with conditions attached. Ordinance, Sec. 1-2

The ordinance itself is short. It changes the zoning and ties the new permit to a set of rules. The land gift, the tax rebate and most of the operating rules live in a separate contract. Ordinance, Sec. 2

That contract is called a development agreement. It’s a 33-page deal between the Town, four Fain family companies and trusts, and AP&S. The council approved it in December 2025, at the same meeting where it voted on the zoning. It isn’t on the ballot by itself, but most of it only takes effect if the zoning survives this vote. One part only kicks in if the zoning fails. Later sections of this article call it “the agreement.” Agreement Courier

The council also approved a change to the Town’s long-range land-use map, called the General Plan, for this site. Voters ratified that plan in 2022, and the Daily Courier reported that it shows the area around Government Tank as residential. The petition didn’t cover that change. Your ballot only asks about the zoning. Town ballot page SignalsAZ, 2022 vote Courier, Jan. 2026

How things work right now

A pit, a park, a family that owns a lot of land, and a town line that matters more than it looks.

The gray stuff under the road

Builders call crushed rock, sand and gravel aggregate. It goes into concrete, asphalt and the packed layer under most roads and driveways. It’s heavy and cheap, so hauling it far adds up fast. A supporter who co-owns a glazing company in town put it this way in her ballot argument: every mile added to a haul route adds cost to every construction project. Pamphlet, Wood

The company that digs Prescott Valley’s gravel, AP&S, also uses a lot of it. Besides running the pit, it paves roads, with jobs from the state transportation department and the City of Prescott. Federal mine-safety records list McCormick Inc. as the company in charge of its pit, under mine ID 0202135. The state has approved the pit’s cleanup plan since 2007. State contract Prescott project Mine records Mine Inspector list

That pit sits east of Fain Park and south of Highway 69. The Daily Courier reports it has run since 1982, and ballot arguments say 1982 or 1983. AP&S rents it from the Fain family, who own the pit, Government Tank, the west site and a lot of the land around them. The Fains are a longtime local family. Much of the land that became Prescott Valley came from them, and they still own many properties and businesses in town. On paper the family shows up in the agreement as four companies and trusts. Its business brand is Fain Signature Group, which also owns the company behind the local news site SignalsAZ. Pamphlet Courier, Nov. 2025 Agreement Courier SignalsAZ disclosure

Next to the pit is the plant that crushes and sorts the rock. The vote doesn’t move that plant, a point Hathaway makes in his ballot argument. How long it runs is a separate question. Councilmember Ken Freund, who voted no, said in December that the plant is scheduled to close long before Government Tank would be finished. He asked where rock would be crushed then. We haven’t seen a public answer. Pamphlet, Hathaway Courier

Why a new pit at all

Both campaigns say the pit is running out of hard rock, the tough stuff concrete and asphalt need. A yes supporter wrote that the Fains are “running out of quarry space.” A no group called it an “exhausted” mine. The agreement itself says hard rock harvesting “winds down” at the current pit. Pamphlet, Tooley and PVCA Agreement, recitals

That doesn’t mean the pit shuts down. The supporters’ slides say AP&S still works it and that only some kinds of material are running out, mainly rock that binds well enough for concrete and roads. According to a written summary of a November 2025 planning hearing, the existing pit would stay permitted and isn’t set to close. How many years of rock it has left hasn’t been made public. Supporter slides Meeting summary

AP&S also runs a second pit, Arrowhead Mining & Materials, near Chino Valley, about 20 miles north of Prescott. Hathaway told us AP&S has been trucking hard rock from there to its plant here. We couldn’t confirm that. The U.S. Geological Survey says trucking can double the cost of gravel at distances of 30 to 50 miles, which is why pits sit close to the towns they serve. AP&S website ADOT list Interview USGS report

That’s why jobs aren’t really what’s on the ballot. The vote doesn’t change the current pit or plant, and the same company would dig either site. We found no claim from either side that the vote adds or cuts jobs. What the vote decides is where the next nearby hard rock comes from.

Why the town line matters so much

Prescott Valley’s town limits have bumps and holes. Think of the town line as the border between two rulebooks. Inside it, the Town’s rules apply. Outside it, Yavapai County’s rules apply. On this question, which side of the line a site sits on decides who gets a say.

Arizona law says county zoning can’t “prevent, restrict or otherwise regulate” land used for mining, as long as the property is at least five acres. So on county land, the county mostly can’t say no to a gravel pit. The same law lets a county create a special zoning district for gravel pits, with rules on hours, dust and noise. We found no sign that Yavapai County has created one, and the Fains’ attorney told the planning commission the county doesn’t currently limit blasting or hours. Courier State law 11-812

The west site is county land, zoned for rural homes, in a pocket of county land with Prescott Valley all around it. In September 2025, AP&S filed a plan for it with the State Mine Inspector. That’s a state office that reviews how a pit’s land will be cleaned up and reshaped after the digging ends. State plan Meeting agenda

That cleanup plan is called a reclamation plan. By the office’s own description, it doesn’t hand out permission to mine, and it doesn’t regulate dust, traffic or noise. AP&S didn’t need a vote or a rezoning to file the plan. State plan Meeting agenda

State law says the Mine Inspector “shall approve” a cleanup plan that meets its standards. AP&S’s plan passed the office’s technical review before a Dec. 18, 2025 public meeting at the Prescott Valley library, so approval is the expected next step. We couldn’t find a public record of the final sign-off. State law 27-1273 Mine Inspector meeting Meeting agenda

Government Tank is the opposite case. It’s inside town limits, so the Town’s zoning rules apply. Its zoning says homes, so a pit there needs a yes from the Town Council, and now from voters. Its closest neighbors live across the town line in Dewey-Humboldt, a small town next door, so they don’t get a vote. Ordinance Courier

What yes and no actually do

Your vote decides the zoning. The agreement decides what comes with it.

What happens next

Pick a result to walk through what follows, step by step.

Why your vote matters

Gravel gets dug near Prescott Valley either way. Your vote decides who lives closest to it, what rules it follows and what the Town promises in return.

The details are spread across a 33-page contract, a state filing and two campaigns, so they’re easy to lose track of. This section puts the trade-offs side by side. Find the thing you care about most and compare the two answers.

Who feels it most

Different people feel different parts of this. Homeowners in StoneRidge and Victorian Estates live closest to the west site. Dewey-Humboldt neighbors live closest to Government Tank and don’t get a vote. People who use Fain Park gain land only if yes wins. And every Prescott Valley taxpayer shares the rebate promise, which matters only if the Town someday adds a covered tax.

The next three sections go deeper: the promises in the agreement, the tax rebate, and the health questions.

The agreement’s fine print

If yes wins, these are the promises that come with it. If no wins, none of them apply.

Arizona law lets a town sign a binding contract with a landowner about how land will be developed. The contract can be changed later if every side agrees. This one was recorded with Yavapai County on Dec. 22, 2025. State law 9-500.05 Agreement

How long each promise lasts

The agreement’s promises run on different clocks. The cancel window lasts about a year. The ban on asking to expand lasts 15 years. The agreement’s first term is 20 years, and it can renew 10 years at a time for as long as usable rock is still being dug, up to 50 years. It also stays in force while rebates are still owed. For comparison, AP&S’s first west-site plan runs about 10 years, through 2035, though the Fains’ attorney estimated the west site holds 50 to 70 years of material. Agreement 1.2, 3.2(f), 5.5 State plan

The cancel clause

Section 1.2 is short and gets a lot of attention. If the Fains and AP&S decide “for any reason” that going ahead at Government Tank “may not be in its interest,” the Town must take legal steps to undo the agreement and the approvals. The option expires “within one (1) year of Approvals.” Only the Fains and AP&S get this option. The Town doesn’t. 1.2

Opponents see a one-sided exit. Ken Freund, who voted no, called it a “bailout clause for one party.” In a September 2026 video, the Fain family said the clause was there in case the council added conditions that made the deal unworkable, and that “the town did not stipulate anything.” They said the option ends “as soon as we put a shovel in the dirt,” and that they can’t test-dig and then back out. The agreement’s text doesn’t say either of those things. It says the option can be used “for any reason” and runs for one year from the approvals. If the Fains cancel, the Town’s promise to limit itself at the west site doesn’t apply. Courier Fain video Agreement 1.2 2.8

The agreement doesn’t say exactly when the year starts. The option expires “within one (1) year of Approvals,” meaning the council’s votes, while the land gift waits for “any referendum period and related vote.” One reading closes the window around the turn of the year. Another runs it to about November 2027. In their video, the Fains said the year was chosen to leave time for a referendum, which fits the first reading. Only the Town Attorney can settle which applies. Agreement 1.2, 3.6 Fain video

Will it cost you anything?

Not today. Prop 404 doesn’t raise any tax, and no tax that would trigger its rebate has been proposed.

How likely is each trigger?

The two covered taxes take very different paths. A property tax needs an election. A tax on commercial rent only needs the council. State law 42-17056 Notice under state law

One difference: Phoenix and Kingman raised rates they already charged. Prescott Valley would be setting one for the first time. Max Hathaway points out that the Fains rent land to businesses around town, including the land AP&S leases for its pit and plant, which is why opponents focus on the rent tax. State tax table Interview Agreement 2.7

What it means for the Town’s budget

Neither choice brings the Town new tax money from the digging itself. Prescott Valley uses the state’s model city tax code, which doesn’t tax pulling sand, gravel or rock out of the ground. The Town’s taxes on construction and sales work the same way whichever site supplies the rock. State model tax code, mining State model tax code, extraction State tax table

A yes vote brings about 80 acres of park land with no purchase price, plus a private haul road and highway crossing that the Fains and AP&S pay for. The Town takes on caring for the new land, and the agreement bars any new rock or tonnage fees on the pit. A no vote costs the Town nothing directly. It gives up the land gift and the written limits. Agreement 2.2, 3.3, 3.6

Would either choice change what gravel costs? Probably not by much. Hauling is a big part of gravel’s price, and the U.S. Geological Survey says trucking can double it at distances of 30 to 50 miles. Government Tank sits about 4.5 miles from the plant, and the west site sits next to it, so either one keeps Prescott Valley’s supply local. According to the council minutes, the Fains’ attorney said the west site “would be easier and more cost-effective” for them to dig, so the operator’s costs may run somewhat higher at Government Tank. The bigger cost risk would be running out of nearby rock altogether, and neither choice does that soon. USGS report USGS testimony Town staff report State plan Council minutes, Dec. 11

The full mechanics, worked examples and a calculator are in the expandable box on the page, for anyone who wants them.

Dust, water, noise and health

These are the worries neighbors raise most. Some have been measured. Most haven’t.

The grid shows what the agreement sets for each worry, and what isn’t required or known. The details follow.

Sources for the grid: Agreement 3.2, 3.3 Town staff report Oregon DOT Study, 2019 Each one is explained below.

Silica dust, explained

Digging and crushing rock makes dust. Part of that dust is crystalline silica, the mineral quartz is made of. The smallest bits can travel deep into the lungs. Breathing a lot of it for years can scar the lungs, a disease called silicosis. OSHA

So the question neighbors care about is simple: how much silica would reach their homes? Nobody has measured that at either site. What exists is one test of workers at the current pit, an estimate supporters built from that test, and studies from other places. The chart puts the numbers side by side.

What the worker test shows

In January 2023, an insurance company had AP&S workers wear small air monitors through an 8-hour shift. Both forms of silica came in well under the federal limit for workers and under the level where extra testing kicks in. Tem Fugit, a StoneRidge resident who supports Prop 404, wrote up the results from records AP&S gave him. He notes the test came before a November 2023 state violation that made AP&S add new dust-catching equipment at its concrete plant. Supporter document

Why that doesn’t settle it for neighbors

Two different limits are in play. The worker limit is built for healthy adults breathing dust 8 hours a day on the job. California’s guideline is for everyone, including kids and older people, breathing the air around the clock for years, so it’s much lower. The worker readings are above California’s guideline. OSHA Study, 2021 Supporter document

That doesn’t mean neighbors breathe that much. The workers wore their monitors right where the dust is made, and dust thins out as it travels. How fast it thins depends on distance, wind and dust control. Supporter handout

A handout from supporters says it applied the Gaussian plume model, a standard textbook formula for how pollution spreads through air, and found silica drops to nearly zero within about 10 meters, or 33 feet. We checked the formula against the references the handout cites. The formula is real, but it wasn’t used the way it works. It starts from how much dust a source gives off and the wind and weather, not from a reading on a worker’s monitor. Its standard spread equations are considered valid from about 100 meters out, so it can’t say much about 10 meters. That doesn’t mean dust reaches homes at harmful levels. It means this handout can’t settle the question either way, and no agency has checked it. Supporter handout Turner workbook AMS paper UW course notes

What studies elsewhere found

Researchers measured silica at the edges of sand mines in Wisconsin. Others took short 48-hour samples at 17 homes within about half a mile of those mines. Both found levels below California’s guideline. Those were sand operations, several of the studies had industry funding, and none of them involved blasting hard rock in Arizona. Study, 2021 Study, 2015

What would answer the question

Air monitors at the edge of the site, run while it operates. The agreement requires dust control on the haul road and answers to complaints, but it doesn’t require monitoring at the property line. The applicant’s attorney told the planning commission that a state dust permit can only be sought once mining is approved, and that state air reports couldn’t reverse the zoning. Agreement 3.3 Commission minutes, Dec. 8

Not everyone against Prop 404 leads with silica. Max Hathaway told us he doesn’t know the science well enough to call it a health danger, and that he has urged fellow opponents not to lead with it. His bigger worry is the dirt. Interview

The dirt on top

Before anyone can dig rock, the dirt and loose rock sitting on top of it has to come off. Miners call that overburden. Scraping it off and piling it up kicks up dust, so how much of it there is matters to neighbors.

For the west site, AP&S’s state plan spells it out. Crews would clear the plants, scrape off topsoil and overburden, and pile it into berms, which are long dirt walls along the edges, or into stockpiles. The pits would go 50 to 115 feet deep. Later, the stored dirt would refill about 33 of the 44 acres, and the rest would stay as bare rock slopes. State plan

Nothing like that has been made public for Government Tank. The Town’s approval says digging there happens in phases set by a conditional use permit. We haven’t found that document online, and no depth or drilling study has been released. So the public documents can’t tell anyone how much dirt sits on top of its rock. Agreement 3.2(a)

That gap is where the two sides split. Hathaway told us Government Tank’s rock sits mostly underground, so more dirt would come off there, while rock shows at the surface at the west site. A supporter presentation says most of Government Tank’s rock can be dug with heavy equipment and very little blasting, and the Fains’ attorney told the planning commission blasting might happen once a year or less. Neither side has shown a study behind its claim, and nobody has studied where the dust from either site would go. Interview Supporter slides Courier, Nov. 2025

Which way the wind blows

People on both sides told us they agree the wind here usually comes from the south and southwest. That would push dust from Government Tank toward the north and northeast, which is toward Prescott Valley. The only estimate of how far dust travels is the supporters’ handout described above, and it doesn’t model either actual site. You can look at the hourly wind record from the Prescott airport weather station yourself. Wind records

Water

The agreement bans a water well at Government Tank, so water for dust control has to be trucked in. Supporters say the Fains will use their own water rights, and at the December planning hearing the applicant’s attorney said the water would come from the current pit. A supporter presentation says water at the current pit is recycled into ponds there, except what gets sprayed on dirt roads. Councilmember Ken Freund has called supporters’ water-recycling claims misleading. We haven’t seen a public estimate of how much water dust control would take, and opponents say that’s the problem. Agreement 3.2(g) Pamphlet Commission minutes, Dec. 8 Supporter slides Council minutes, Dec. 11

Dewey-Humboldt Councilmember Jason Chisholm told Prescott Valley’s Planning and Zoning Commission, the citizen board that reviews land-use requests, that the Dewey-Humboldt residents nearest Government Tank already haul in water because their wells have none. He warned that blasting could make wells that still have water fail. Courier

Research by state agencies in Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Oregon generally finds quarry blasting rarely harms wells beyond short-lived cloudy water, and that cracking from a blast tends to stay close to the blast hole. None of that research looked at wells here, and the agreement doesn’t require checks of nearby wells. Oregon DOT Minnesota DNR Pennsylvania study Agreement 3.2

Noise and blasting

At Government Tank, the agreement allows up to 4 blasting rounds a year, with notice to anyone within 1,000 feet, and limits hours to Monday through Saturday, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. At the west site, the state plan doesn’t describe blasting, the county can’t set hours through zoning, and the Town can only push for limits like Government Tank’s. Agreement 3.2 State plan State law 11-812

Supporters say AP&S hasn’t blasted at the current pit in more than 20 years and that no damaged foundations have been reported. One opponent warns of “100,000-ton blasting events.” That number came from AP&S itself. At the November 2025 planning hearing, AP&S’s Pete Thompson said a typical blasting job moved 100,000 tons in about four blasts spread over a month: “So 20 seconds of dynamite in a month, maybe two.” The Fains’ attorney said blasting might happen once a year or less. We couldn’t find a record for the supporters’ 20-year claim. A supporter presentation says the current pit rarely uses explosives, and that each blast aims to free up months or years of rock. That fits what AP&S and the Fains’ attorney told the planning commission: a typical blasting job moves about 100,000 tons, and demand runs about 75,000 to 100,000 tons a year. Pamphlet, Colosimo and Betzhold Courier, Nov. 2025 Supporter slides Courier, Nov. 2025 Commission minutes, Dec. 8

Supporter Joe Colosimo told us blasts are wetted down so well that they raise no dust. We found no measurement of blasting dust at either site. Agreement 3.3

Blasting itself is tightly regulated for safety. Federal mine-safety rules cover how explosives are stored, moved and loaded, and require that a loaded blast site be attended, barricaded and posted with warning signs, or flagged against entry. At the hearings, AP&S’s Pete Thompson said blasting in a pit is more controlled than blasting on a mountain peak, and the Fains’ attorney said contractors can adjust drilling patterns to cut vibration and noise. Those federal rules focus on safety at the mine. They don’t set limits on vibration or dust at nearby homes, and neither does the agreement. Federal mine rules, Subpart E Federal Register, 1996 Courier, Nov. 2025 Commission minutes, Dec. 8 Agreement 3.2

On everyday noise, a supporter’s summary of the 2023 workplace test says workers’ noise exposure was well under the workplace limit of 90 decibels set by OSHA, the federal workplace-safety agency. Nobody has measured noise near homes at either site. At the November hearing, several StoneRidge residents, Colosimo among them, said they don’t notice noise or dust from the current pit. Town staff made meeting the Town noise ordinance a condition of approval. Supporter document Courier, Nov. 2025 Town staff report

Home values

This one matters to a lot of homeowners, and three studies point three different ways. Knowing why helps you weigh them.

Why the studies disagree

Timing is the big one. Most studies only see home sales after a pit opened. That makes it hard to tell whether the pit pushed prices down or whether cheaper homes simply got built near a pit that was already there. Before-and-after comparisons handle that better, but they’re rare. Policy paper, 2022

The kind of operation matters too. A busy hard-rock quarry with blasting and trucks isn’t the same as a quiet sand pit, and an active pit isn’t the same as a finished one. And both sides use these studies, so each side’s experts attack the other side’s methods. Rock Products Study, 2019

What it could mean here

Nobody has studied home prices near either Prescott Valley site. If the Ohio and Calgary patterns hold here, the homes most likely to feel it are the ones closest to whichever pit is active. Agreement 3.6 State plan

With a yes, that’s the small number of homes near Government Tank, and the west-site land becomes park, the kind of change the Calgary study found can close a price gap. With a no, that’s parts of StoneRidge and Victorian Estates while the west site is dug, and AP&S’s plan turns the land into building pads afterward. Agreement 3.6 State plan

How we got here

The fight over where to dig next started in 2021, years before it reached your ballot.

Claims, checked

Twenty-three claims and slogans from the campaigns, checked against the documents.

Each claim below comes from the official ballot pamphlet or a campaign website. Tap one to see what the documents say.

Both sides, in their own words

Each side’s strongest case, as its supporters would make it.

Hear it from them

The Fain family posted videos explaining the deal, including why the agreement has a cancel clause. Fain Signature Group supports a yes vote, so treat them as one side’s case, in their own words. Next to it is the Town’s recording of the December council hearing, where people on both sides spoke. Fain video SignalsAZ disclosure Council video

Who’s paying for the campaigns

One more thing to know when you read local coverage. SignalsAZ, which has posted the Fains’ videos about Prop 404, is published by a company Fain Signature Group owns. Its Prop 404 stories now carry a note saying so, and saying that Fain Signature Group supports a yes vote. SignalsAZ SignalsAZ disclosure

What does Together Strong think?

Still open

Only three questions are still truly open. Tap one to see what we found, what’s missing and who could close the gap.

How to vote

Prop 404 is on the ballot for registered voters who live inside Prescott Valley’s town limits. If you aren’t sure whether that’s you, check your sample ballot. If Prop 404 is on it, you get a say. Clean Elections

After Oct. 27, it’s safer to drop a mail ballot at a drop box or voting location than to mail it. Yavapai County uses vote centers on Election Day, so you can vote at any vote center in the county. Bring ID if you vote in person. You don’t have to answer every question on your ballot for the rest to count. Clean Elections County vote centers

Prescott Valley’s early voting spot is at 3001 Main St., Suite 1E/1F, in the Entertainment District, open 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays. On Friday, Oct. 30, the last day, county early voting sites stay open until 7 p.m. County voter guide The county runs it. The same building houses the Fain family partnership’s office, and the site drew complaints online when it was announced. Clean Elections State plan Courier

The Town’s official pamphlet has every argument filed for and against Prop 404, in English and Spanish. Pamphlet

Test yourself

Five questions. No grades, no permanent record.

Questions people ask

Glossary

Every term this article explains, in one place. Dotted words in the article open these definitions when you tap them.

Ad valorem tax

A tax based on what property is worth, like a property tax. Latin for “according to value.”

AP&S

Asphalt Paving & Supply, the company that runs the current pit and would run the new one.

Appraisal

An expert’s official estimate of what property is worth. The gift land’s appraisal sets the cap on the tax rebate.

Aggregate

The industry word for crushed rock, sand and gravel used in concrete, asphalt and road beds.

Blasting round

What the agreement calls a “blasting occasion”: one separate blasting contract, which can include several blasts. The cap is 4 a year.

Canvass

The official step where the Town Council accepts the final vote count and makes the results official.

Cancel clause

Section 1.2 of the agreement, which lets the Fains and AP&S undo the deal “for any reason” within a year of the approvals. The agreement calls it rescission.

Commercial leasehold

Land or a building rented to a business. A tax on it is a tax on commercial rent.

Conditional use permit

Permission for a specific use of land that comes with conditions the owner must follow.

CPI-U

A federal measure of how much prices rise over time. The agreement uses it to raise the rebate cap with inflation.

Development agreement

A contract between a town and a landowner about how land will be developed. This one is Resolution 2025-2440, called “the agreement” in this article.

Fain Signature Group

The Fain family’s business brand. The family owns Government Tank, the west site and the current pit’s land.

General Plan

The Town’s long-range land-use map and policy guide. Big changes to it need a two-thirds council vote.

Government Tank

The 39.07-acre site on Prescott Valley’s south edge that Prop 404 would rezone.

Haul road

The private road that would carry rock from Government Tank to the AP&S plant, about 4.5 miles long.

Highest and best use

An appraisal term for what land would be worth if used in the most valuable legal way.

IG

Industrial; General Limited, the zoning label Government Tank would get if yes wins.

Ordinance

A law passed by a town council. Prop 404 is about Ordinance 2026-974.

Overburden

The dirt and loose rock that has to be scraped off before diggers reach the rock they want.

Parcel

One piece of land with its own tax ID number.

Petition

A form voters sign to ask for something. Enough valid signatures can send a council decision to the ballot.

Planning and Zoning Commission

A board of residents appointed by the Town Council that studies land-use requests and recommends what the council should do.

Political action committee

A group formed to raise and spend money for or against something on the ballot. Each one has to file public money reports.

Publicity pamphlet

The Town’s official booklet with the ballot text and every argument filed for and against each measure.

RCU-2A

The county’s rural home zoning on the west site.

Reclamation plan

A plan, filed with the State Mine Inspector, for cleaning up and reshaping land after a pit closes.

Referendum

A vote that lets residents approve or reject a law the council already passed, triggered by a voter petition.

RL-70

Residential; Single Family Limited, Government Tank’s zoning label today.

Silicosis

Lung scarring caused by breathing crystalline silica dust over a long time.

State Mine Inspector

A state office that reviews plans for cleaning up land after a pit closes. It doesn’t issue permission to mine and doesn’t regulate dust, traffic or noise.

Town Council

The seven elected people, including the mayor, who make Prescott Valley’s laws.

Vote center

An Election Day voting location where any voter in the county can cast a ballot.

West site

The county land west of Fain Park, along North Stoneridge Drive, where digging is expected if no wins. The agreement calls it the West Fain Park Site.

Zoning

The label on each piece of land that says what can be built or done there.

Check our work

Official documents come first. Campaign sites and news stories are labeled. Where we did our own math or our own count, we say so.

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