The grocery story falls just under the city’s big box classification, with proposed 99,918 square-foot anchor store, a gas station and plans for two other retail buildings. For comparison, the Target supercenter at 9615 E. Old Spanish Trail is about 144,300 square feet, and the Walmart supercenter at 2711 S. Houghton Road is about 92,900 square feet.

“Nobody is listening to us,” says Linda Schaub, who lives a few houses away from the proposed store and has been involved in opposing it for nearly three years. “There are multiple violations that we’ve pointed out to the zoning examiner, but he doesn’t think they are worthy.”

The development, for example, is using the city’s right of way and drainage ditches to meet open space requirements.

And, Schaub says, a zoning hearing isn’t the right time or place to reconcile the concerns of the neighborhood and what the developer wants to do.

“You cannot amend a neighborhood plan with a rezoning,” she said. “Pure and simple, an (a planned area development zone) must be in compliance with the neighborhood plan, and it is not.”