Arizona State and Local Government Documents Collection

This research study addresses the collection, preparation, and use of traffic data required for pavement design by the Arizona Department of Transportation, focusing on data required as inputs for the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials "Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide" design procedures. ADOT’s current traffic data collection and preparation processes are not adequate to meet the needs of the MEPDG procedure, and improvements are needed. These improvements include enhanced volume, classification, and weight data collection for vehicles, processing data and performing quality assurance checks, and the preparation/analysis of the data for use in the MEPDG. Use of the MEPDG in Arizona will require (1) an annual flow of updated key traffic data and (2) the ability to collect on-site (MEPDG Level 1) data in a timely manner for key projects.

The Arizona Department of Transportation, in coordination with Apache County District II and the Fort Defiance Chapter of the Navajo Nation, analyzed the traffic circulation conditions of Navajo Routes 7, 12, 54, 110, and 112 within the Fort Defiance Industrial Area which is designated as a major growth area on the Navajo Nation. The study was funded by the Federal Highway Administration’s State Planning and Research Program and administered through ADOT’s Multimodal Planning Division's Planning Assistance for Rural Areas (PARA) program. The study was initiated to develop a planning strategy to improve the mobility and safety within the Fort Defiance Industrial Area.

The San Xavier District of the Tohono O’odham Nation is home to approximately 2,000 people. Numerous others come to the District to visit the San Xavier del Bac Mission Church. The San Xavier District Pedestrian Access and Safety Study is being prepared to improve the walking and bicycling environment on the San Xavier District for Community members and visitors alike. The study is being funded by the Arizona Department of Transportation Multimodal Planning Division’s Planning Assistance for Rural Areas program.

Prior to developing and approving new ordinances that would further regulate sex- offender distance restrictions and clustering, the Phoenix City Council approved a study to examine the nature and impact of sex-offender clustering. Their overall goal was to use the study to fill in some important knowledge gaps about the issue of sex-offender residential clustering in order to inform the development of effective policy. To examine this issue on behalf of the city council, we relied on a multi-methodological research design. We wanted to incorporate information from several different points of view, giving policy makers a more comprehensive perspective from which to inform their decision making. For this study, we relied on four resources: official police data, offender interview data, citizen survey data, and key stakeholder interview data.

Sustainable housing strives for diverse, healthy, affordable, socially inclusive, resource-efficient, and culturally sensitive housing. This report’s current state assessment is based on five goals of sustainable housing, derived from sustainability and livability principles: meet demand with adequate housing options; provide sufficient quality of housing and promote healthy housing conditions; secure affordability of housing; conserve natural resources in homes; and maintain valuable cultural and historical character.

Executive summary -- Correspondence to scope of work -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Housing challenges in the Eastlake-Garfield District -- 1.2. Profile of the "Reinvent Phoenix" grant -- 1.3. Sustainable housing research -- 1.4. Objectives of the strategy study -- Chapter 2. Research design and data sources -- Chapter 3. Strategy inputs (current state assessment, vision, theory of change) -- 3.1. Current state of housing in the Eastlake-Garfield District -- 3.2. Vision for sustainable housing in the Eastlake-Garfield District -- 3.3. Theory of change -- Chapter 4.Sustainable housing strategy for the Eastlake-Garfield District -- 4.1. Linking sustainable housing goals to interventions and investment options -- 4.2. New construction intervention -- 4.2.1. Core components -- 4.2.2. Details on investment options for new construction -- 4.3. Rehabilitation and revitalization intervention -- 4.3.1. Core components -- 4.3.2. Details on investment options for rehabilitation and revitalization -- 4.4. Adaptive reuse intervention -- 4.5. Details on implementation tools -- 4.6. Synthesis−action plan for sustainable housing in Eastlake-Garfield -- 4.6.1. New construction intervention action plan -- 4.6.2. Rehabilitation and revitalization intervention action plan -- 4.6.3. Adaptive reuse intervention action plan -- Chapter 5 -- Causal problem maps of green systems -- 5.1. Critical role of steering committee, city council, city departments, local experts -- 5.2. Testing strategy, interventions, investments -- 5.3. Coordination across strategies -- 5.4. Anticipating the next set of interventions, investments, and implementation tools -- 5.5. Crafting the next 5-year plan -- References and appendix||The transition strategy presented in this report describes a set of interventions necessary to create sustainable housing in the Eastlake-Garfield District of Phoenix, Arizona. The current state of housing in the District is not sustainable--the population is struggling with high vacancy rates, low affordability, overcrowding, and low incomes burdened by high transportation costs.