IGTIGT Phase I Summary Statements - Draft 2/18/11

Summary Number: 15
 
Clarify and specify government's role in developing the region
 
 "The current recession can be used to re-examine and re-direct our priorities from a boom-town that caters to massive housing projects leap-frogging into the rural areas to an innovative community that capitalizes on our abundant sunshine and invests in the most dense areas of the valley with infrastructure improvements."
 "I continue to hear unbelievable stories about bureacracy's opposition to business and development."
 "Most of the region is unfriendly to business and development."
 "I am concerned that if development does not have to meet some criteria, the Tucson landscape could be turned into sprawling L.A. Suburbs."
 "We have few examples of well planned, functional and appealing development."
 "I'm frustrated by the waste of fancy plans that don't happen."
 "I would freeze the boundaries of the Tucson active water management area and issue no further development permits."