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1998 GROWING SMARTER ACT – IMPROVING THE WAY WE GROW
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Creating Meaningful Open Spaces
- Provide $220 million in state matching funds for
local communities to acquire conservation quality State Trust Lands
- Require the preparation of integrated open space
and land use plans by local communities and the State Land
Department
Putting Strength and Certainty Back in
Community Plans
- Convert community land use plans to growth
management plans by adding environmental and growth impact elements
- Create confidence in community plans by
requiring developers to conform to plans and to receive a two-thirds
vote for plan amendments
Increasing Citizen Involvement in Planning
- Adopt new locally-generated citizen
participation programs to revisit community plans every 10 years
- Provide the right to citizens to refer community
plans and plan amendments to the ballot
Enhancing Rural
Planning and Lifestyles
- Offer assistance to smaller communities to
create needed community land use and public facility plans
- Provide funding to ranchers and farmers for
conservation based land management practices
Requiring Development To Pay For Itself
- Create community plans that require developers
to pay for their own needed public facilities/services
2000 GROWING SMARTER PLUS ACT– CREATING A
LEGACY FOR OUR CHILDREN
Preserving The Majesty
of Arizona’s Landscapes
- Permanent and free designation of extraordinary
State Trust Lands as open space in a new Arizona Conservation
Reserve ("ACR")
- Place on the ballot an initial package of 70,000
acres of special lands for designation in the ACR
- Authorize conservation-based land exchanges
between the State Land Department and federal or local governments
- Create a purchase of development rights program
to preserve agricultural and ranch lands
- Provide non-monetary incentives to
ranchers/farmers to be exceptional stewards of state trust lands
- Dedication of conservation-quality trust lands
by recognizing increased values in surrounding lands
Giving Citizens a Vote on Plans and a Voice
in Zoning Decisions
- Require new community plans in fast growing
cities to be ratified by their voters at least every 10 years
- Hold all major amendments to community plans for
consideration at a single annual meeting
- Require elevated citizen review and involvement
programs for rezoning cases and new regulations
- Give property owners a process to voice their
property rights concerns
Authorizing Development Fees and Development
Agreements To Pay For Growth Impacts
- Authorize both cities and counties to
impose full development impact fees on developers
- Allow counties to require developers to
construct infrastructure in binding development agreements
Strengthening Community Plans and Managing
Growth
- Authorize local communities to set boundaries
that limit where streets, sewers, water will be provided at the
public’s expense
- Require cities and towns to have a 10-year plan
for provision of services to newly annexed areas
- Control so-called "wildcat subdivisions" with
county lot split regulation and full disclosure requirements
- Require local communities to create water
adequacy plans to balance available resources and projected demands
- Provide incentives to encourage growth on vacant
parcels where services already exist
- Require regional coordination of community plans
and authorize rural planning districts
Free Lands and
Additional Trust Funds for Schools
- Permit the State Land Commissioner to dedicate
school sites at no cost
- Streamline the State Land Department
requirements to create more revenues for the school trust fund
- Increase funding to State Land Department to
allow it to protect the land assets held in the school trust
- Require the State Land Department to identify
appropriate small parcels to be sold for affordable housing or
individual landowners
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