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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.
On December 18, 2001 the Pima County Board of Supervisors adopted the Comprehensive Plan Update. At that hearing, the Board referred the Plan back to Commission for further recommendation to assure all the various pieces of the Plan have been examined and reexamined. Its recommendation will be sent to the various affected public agencies for review and sent to the Board for an adoption public hearing in March or April 2002. The list of 2001 annual plan amendments are included in this report to allow a review of the plan amendments with regards to the Comprehensive Plan.
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.
This white paper is divided into two sectons: (1) funding sources for open space acquisition; and (2) funding mechanisms used by other communities to implement conservation plans. This white paper is forwarded to initiate discussions on open space funding options.
Upon adoption of the Comprehensive Plan, the Board directed staff to bring forward program proposals to implement the policies of the Plan at sixty-day intervals, beginning with mixed use and affordable housing programs.This study combined with the studies issued previously on the topics of housing and affordability in Pima County provide the information and options necessary to establish mixed use and affordable housing programs within Pima County.
The Adaptive Management workshop proceedings continue the series that is underway to support the development of the Ranch Conservation Element. The verbatim proceedings and materials from the workshop are included.
The study details the direct and indirect impacts of roads on natural resources, including direct mortality and loss of habitat, physical changes to the topography and hydrology of an area, impacts to habitat, noise, light and other types of pollution, and habitat fragmentation.
Provides an overview of types of mitigation banking activities that have evolved from the Army Corps of Engineers wetlands banking. The discussion provides important distinctions between traditional practices in the area of mitigation banking and banking for endangered species purposes. The potential role of private sector in this market is described, as well as the roles of federal and local government participants.
Provides an inventory of infrastructure resources in the Catalina Foothills subregion of Pima County.
Provides an inventory of infrastructure resources in the Tucson Mountains / Avra Valley subregion of Pima County.