Development of alternatives is the next step in the Pinal County Comprehensive Plan

Development of alternatives is the next step in the Pinal County Comprehensive Plan process, which will be completed this fall when the Comprehensive Plan goes to the County Supervisors for adoption.

Because Arizona, and specifically Pinal County, will face tremendous growth in the next few decades, it was important that the updated Comprehensive Plan:

* Create consensus on land use

* Address environmental sustainability

* Preserve open space

* Link development with transportation

* Develop employment areas

* Create population centers

* Improve quality of life

These goals, coupled with the input from thousands of Pinal residents, helped to develop three land use alternatives for public consideration and feedback. Each of the three alternatives address the Pinal County Vision that is guiding this effort and achieve a similar projected population, however, each alternative addresses elements such as economic and residential development, open space preservation and transportation in a different manner. The three alternatives are:

Trends is a land use alternative assuming the continuation of current residential and economic development standards into the future.

Corridor Focused is a land use alternative that concentrates larger, mixed-use economic and residential development activities, and multimodal transportation alternatives along major transportation routes (such as I-10, I-8 and the proposed North/South freeway corridor), and that applies the recently adopted Pinal County Open Space and Trails Master Plan.

Dispersed Growth is a land use alternative that distributes economic/residential development activities throughout the county, connects these population centers through varying transportation alternatives, and applies the recently adopted Pinal County Open Space and Trails Master Plan.

A meeting will be from 6 p.m.to 8 p.m. Feb. 26 in the Multipurpose Room at Pima Butte Elementary School, 42202 W. Rancho El Dorado.

These workshops are the fourth round of public involvement events for the Pinal County Comprehensive Plan and the first held in 2008. For more information contact Peggy Fiandaca Consulting Team Project Manager at (480) 816-1811 or [email protected].