Who issues pool permits in Eagle Crest Ranch and SaddleBrooke, Arizona?
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Pinal County Building Safety, for both. SaddleBrooke is entirely in Pinal County with zero overlap into Pima County, and it is not part of Oro Valley. Eagle Crest Ranch, 966 homes inside the SaddleBrooke CDP, is entirely Pinal County as well. Both design to a 60 inch barrier. The Eagle Crest Ranch HOA’s own website says Pima County; that is wrong.
SaddleBrooke is not its own authority having jurisdiction and it is not in Pima County. This was verified geometrically rather than asserted: the SaddleBrooke CDP polygon, Census GEOID 0461940, about 47.7 square miles, was intersected with the Pima County polygon and the overlap area is exactly zero. The CDP’s southern edge is coincident with the Pinal-Pima county line. Zero incorporated places intersect the CDP, so there is no municipal government of any kind there and no part of it sits inside Oro Valley, whose northernmost town limit is about two miles south. SaddleBrooke Ranch geocodes to Pinal County as well.
EAGLE CREST RANCH. 966 homes north of Edwin Road, inside the SaddleBrooke CDP, entirely in Pinal County and not split between counties. Verified three ways in 2026: address geocoding on real Eagle Crest Ranch streets returns Pinal County with no incorporated place; point-in-polygon testing at six points across the community returns Pinal every time, with every interior street sitting north of the county line; and the plats are recorded in PINAL County, parcel book 305-93, Cabinet G Slide 083, Section 32 T10S R14E, with the replat at Pinal 2014-072316. Only the entrance pavement touches the county line, and that is not a lot.
THE HOA’S OWN PAGE IS WRONG. The Eagle Crest Ranch homeowners association About page states the community is in Pima County. It is not. This matters because a homeowner or an agent who takes that at face value will look up the Pima County barrier standard of 48 inches and arrive at a number 12 inches short of what Pinal County will inspect to. A barrier built to 48 inches there fails.
WHAT APPLIES INSTEAD. Pool permits for SaddleBrooke and Eagle Crest Ranch go to Pinal County Community Development, Building Safety Division. Pinal County has adopted the 2018 ISPSC at PCDSC 6.05.030(A)(7) by Ordinance 121819-BCO, and requires a 60 inch barrier measured on the outside of the barrier per Information Bulletin 010.
ONE OPEN ITEM, stated rather than guessed. The Eagle Crest Ranch CC&Rs are not publicly readable, so any private architectural standard on fences or walls there is unread by this project. That cuts one way only: a subdivision CC&R can add to the county requirement, never reduce it, because the statutory exemptions run to political subdivisions and not to platted subdivisions or associations.
Correction. The Eagle Crest Ranch HOA’s published statement that the community is in Pima County, and the common assumption that SaddleBrooke is in Pima County or in Oro Valley.
Authority: PCDSC 6.05.030(A)(7); Pinal County Ord. 121819-BCO; Pinal County Information Bulletin 010; Census GEOID 0461940; Pinal County plat book 305-93. Verified 2026-09-10. Evidence grade: MEASURED. Read directly from an authoritative geographic or recorded source.