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- All Subjects: Conservation easements
- All Subjects: Environmental justice
- All Subjects: Santa Cruz River Valley (Ariz. and Mexico)
- Creators: Pima County (Ariz.). County Administrator's Office
Evaluates the conservation significance of county-owned properties in Avra Valley, specifically with regard to Priority Vulnerable Species and the Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan.
Provides the data and analysis necessary for the County's Environmental Impact Statement as it relates to the potential impact that issuing a permit could have on low income or minority people in Pima County. The study goes beyond this narrow assessment too, and discusses the cultural, social and fiscal issues related to the larger topic of environmental justice.
The basic questions addressed in the environmental justice study are whether low income and/or minority neighborhoods are or have been disproportionately affected by the impacts of pollutants in air or water; by land use decisions; financially by environmentally-related governmental decisions.
Provides a brief summary of a compilation of resource investigations that have been submitted so far, to help develop the SDCP within the watershed planning area of the Upper Santa Cruz Valley.
On October 27, 2001, Pima County and the Arizona Open Land Trust hosted a workshop on Tax and Estate Tax Planning as part of the Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan's conservation tools workshop series. The verbatim proceedings and materials from this workshop are included.
Conservation easements are becoming an important mechanism in Pima County for dealing with matters such as the establishment of mitigation banks and the negotiation of conservation commitments with federal environmental regulatory agencies. This tool will also assist in the implementation of the Ranch Conservation Element of the SDCP. Includes the verbatim proceedings of a workshop on conservation held on August 18, 2001.