House Pads & Site Prep in Stringfield at Granite Mountain

Stringfield sits where Pioneer Parkway meets Williamson Valley Road, at the foot of Granite Mountain. The lots here run large, an acre and up, and unlike a lot of the outlying ranch country this corridor has city water and sewer available instead of a well and septic. That draws owners who want room on the ground without hauling in their own water.

This is Granite Mountain ground, so decomposed granite over hard rock shelves and buried boulders is the rule, not the exception. The land rolls and tilts toward the mountain, which means a level building envelope usually has to be cut into a slope, and city sewer connections still have to be trenched through DG and rock to the tap. Summer runoff coming off the higher ground has to be routed around your envelope before it becomes a problem.

A big lot on granite gives you room, but it also gives you slope, rock, and a pad that has to sit dead level over ground that does not. Hit a rock shelf wrong or set the pad without draining it, and the fix comes after the slab is poured, when it costs the most.