Action Plan Items

 

Comprehensive Integrated Planning Activities

PROGRAM 1: GENERAL AND COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATES
(Recommendations Addressed)

 

1. Analyze infrastructure and public facilities needs in preparation for updates to the Plans. (2.1)

2. Update the Urban Form elements of the Plans to encourage smart growth and sustainable urban form. (1.1)

3. Review and update Water Elements in Plans to ensure consistency with City/County Water Study recommendations and state requirements. (1.1)

4. Explore policy to provide for pre-zoning in growth areas as part of updates to the Plans. (2.1)

5. Identify and designate suitable growth areas in the updates to the Plans. (2.1)

I6. dentify and designate employment and job centers in the updates to the Plans. (2.1)

7. Establish infrastructure and service phasing boundaries within growth areas. (2.2)

8. Develop an implementation component for each of the Plans. (2.2)

9. Link County Conservation Acquisition Program with updated Plans. (2.3)

 

 

PROGRAM 2: SMART GROWTH TOOLS AND INCENTIVES

10. Identify opportunities to promote mixed uses and well-designed density. (1.1)

11. Revise County's Cluster Ordinance to improve water efficiency of new development. (1.1)

12. Evaluate improvement districts as a tool to purchase natural areas/riparian habitat. (2.3)

13. Work with TREO to advance public/private collaboration toward economic base job creation (employment with a multiplier effect) and urban revitalization, including ensuring that water resource policies are aligned with economic goals. (2.1)

14. Conduct a Land Use Code sustainability audit to identify opportunities to encourage sustainable urban forms. (1.1)

15. Explore conservation subdivision requirement in Conservation Land System (MBB) to better integrate new development into environmentally sensitive areas. (1.1)

16. Identify and address barriers to infill. (2.1)

17. Develop a fiscal sustainability model. (4.1)

18. Explore City transfer of development rights (TDR) to help direct growth to suitable growth areas. (2.1)

 

PROGRAM 3: LINKING WATER AND LAND USE PLANNING

19. Continue wheeling negotiations between Tucson Water and other water providers to deliver more renewable supplies to the region. (3.4)

20. Participate in the Safe Yield Task Force to address pumping recharge disconnect. (3.5)

21. Implement Tucson Water Service Area Policy and annual water resource "checkbook balance" review. (3.2)

22. Implement Pima County Water Resource Element to assess water resource impacts of new development. (3.3)

23. Conduct a pilot study of integrated water resource planning in the Southwest area. (3.1)