University of Arizona students propose 4‑mile, 300‑tree corridor for Rio Rico; county to provide $150,000 match
A University of Arizona professor and senior landscape‑architecture students presented a master plan to plant roughly 300 drought‑tolerant trees along a 4‑mile stretch of West Frontage Road in Rio Rico to mitigate heat, stabilize soils and improve walkability; county staff committed $150,000 in‑kind for watering and maintenance.
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Bo Yang, professor in the School of Advanced Architecture and Planning at the University of Arizona, and 12 landscape architecture students presented a student‑led plan to plant about 300 trees along a four‑mile stretch of West Frontage Road from Canyon Drive to the Garrett Shopping Plaza.
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