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Scottsdale Road and Rural Road are identified in the Regional Transportation Plan as an arterial Bus Rapid Transit route. The portion of this route within Scottsdale is programmed and funded in the Transit Life Cycle Program.
The goal of the Tempe Streetcar Urban Design Guidelines is to develop a set of design parameters for the designers who will be involved later during the design process. This is not a document that replaces other City of Tempe or METRO design guidelines, but rather assembles into one place some of the overarching aspirations of the community, the City of Tempe and METRO.
Concern has been expressed that mesquite bosques are disappearing or diminishing in quality, and that the survival of the mesquite mouse is consequently threatened. This study, funded by a grant from the Arizona Heritage Fund to the Pima County Regional Flood Control District, investigated the current distribution of the mesquite mouse by reviewing historical records from museum specimens, examining existing potential habitat at historic locations of the species and elsewhere in the county, and conducting a live-trapping study at 19 sites representing a range of ecological communities with mesquite as a major component.
On March 2, 1999, the Board of Supervisors of Pima County, Arizona adopted the Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan. This Plan is the largest and most comprehensive regional multi-species conservation plan in the United States. These memorandums of understanding record the agreements made with cooperating agencies.
The CIP is a five-year financial plan for the acquisition, construction, expansion, or rehabilitation of infrastructure and capital assets. Although capital projects are scheduled throughout the five-year plan, only those projects during the first year of the plan are adopted as part of the City's annual budget.
This report is presented in three sections: 1) the Introductory Section; 2) the Financial Section which includes the independent auditor's report, the general-purpose financial statements, required supplemental information and the combining and individual fund and account group financial statements and schedules; and 3) the Statistical Section which includes selected financial and demographic information, generally presented on a multi-year basis.
A report of the City's fiscal year financial program including a budget overview, a comprehensive financial plan, revenue information, a performance budget, a capital improvement budget, and schedules and summaries.
One goal of the SDCP was to obtain a permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under Section 10 of the Endangered Species Act to enable incidental take of species protected by the ESA in the course of development in Pima County. This report provides the county with the framework to go forward and further its analysis of the final funding costs for a Section 10 Permit.
A series of 51 individual stakeholder interviews and two focus groups conducted with members of the Pima County business community in fall, 2001, documented significantly divided opinion about the likely economic impacts of the county's SDCP. Only one major finding reflected consensus, while several others revealed sharp differences of opinion.
A number of significant positive and negative economic impacts could result from Pima County's SDCP and related programs, according to an analysis of existing research on large-scale conservation planning undertaken to provide a framework for community decision-making. This report offers no final verdict on the net economic impact of Pima County's current, ambitious initiatives in habitat conservation and growth management. However, it does provide a framework for future assessment and decision-making.