Residents worry huge development plans could turn Rio Rico into mining town
RIO RICO — Andrew Jackson’s plans are huge, even by the big-city standards of Tucson or Phoenix.The major Santa Cruz County landowner is pushing a 9-mile-long, mixed-use project on both sides of Interstate 19 that could spur commercial and industrial investment across this unincorporated community 60 miles south of Tucson.His transformative plan includes 18 separate…