Action Needed!
Thanks to the many messages she received from COPP Members and others concerned about growth management and conservation in Arizona, Governor Janet Napolitano did address these issues in her State of the State Address.
Specifically, here’s what she said:
“In addition to protecting our air quality, we must also protect our access to open space, particularly in our urban counties. Without state trust land reform, our ability to protect these lands for their conservation values may be in question. We need time to find the answers. In the meantime, let me assure those communities that have reclassified trust lands under the Arizona Preserve Initiative: We will not move those lands to market for other than conservation purposes without local consent.”
The Governor needs to hear from you again! Thank the Governor for making this commitment in her State of the State Address, and tell her this is a commitment she needs to keep. The State land applied for by Suncor Development is within the Preserve Boundary approved by Scottsdale voters, was included in Scottsdale’s API application, and includes 255 acres of land reclassified as suitable for conservation. It includes a planned major access area at Pima and Dynamite, land fronting on Scottsdale Road’s Scenic Drive, as well as important wash and trail corridors.
In keeping with the commitment made by the Governor in her State of the State Address, the approximately 1700 acres of land applied for by Suncor Development needs to come off the market until answers to Land Trust Reform are found.
You can contact the Governor at http://azgovernor.gov/contact.asp or by fax at (602) 542-1381. Please write today. Ask the Governor to honor her campaign promises to better manage Arizona’s explosive growth by including Land Trust Reform as a critical component of that effort. Urge her to take the land applied for by Suncor Development off the market until a meaningful Land Trust Reform measure has been approved.
Send a copy of your message to the Scottsdale Republic at ne.letters@scottsdalerepublic.com or by fax at (602)444-6875. If you are using the above web address to reach the Governor, you will have to copy the body of your message onto an email message screen to send it to the Republic.
Also, please contact State Senator Carolyn Allen and State Representatives Michelle Reagan and John Kavanagh. Ask them to take a proactive role in supporting Land Trust Reform in this Legislative session, and to urge the Governor take this 1700 acres off the market until Land Trust Reform has been accomplished.
Please send a copy of any responses you receive to us at coppeak@coppeak.org
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