Surprise: a city of conflicting appearances
Over the last several weeks I have read several articles on how the City Council of Surprise continues to have a group that appears arrogant and self indulging. As I read the articles I wonder how this city ever hopes to grow and manage the growth in a responsible way that will benefit the citizens. I took this afternoon (a little time off on Thanksgiving Day) to catch up on my reading and look at some city plans for the Hwy 60 corridor. Granted it was to pick up more information for my real estate business, but non the less it was some fascinating reading. It is hard to believe (see earlier statement) but this stuff is good. I mean it has a lot of thought, it is detailed and as I look at it, many of the questions about how Surprise will grow is there and understandable.
The professionals who work for the City are doing a great job of making information available and understandable. Anyone who wants to open a business, buy land for investment or choose an area to live can get a pretty good idea of what the city and their choice of area will look like in 15 or 20 years. I have compared these plans to ones from surrounding areas. Some are better than others but none compare to Surprise. So when I think of the City Counsel, and all the bickering that goes on, I also have to complement them on the fact they do provide the leadership to City Government that enables an obviously talented group of professionals to do their job extremely well. Now if we can just keep that ugly stuff from becoming the main topic in newspapers about Surprise, people in other areas of the valley might quit laughing about the weird city out west.