State Trust Land Reform Update

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State Trust Land ReformUpdate
Management Committee July 14, 2003
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Participants

• Variety of Interests Represented
• State Land Department
• Primary Beneficiaries of State Trust Land
  (Education Community)
• Conservation Interests
• Valley Partnership
• Central Arizona Homebuilders Association
• League of Arizona Cities and Towns
• Cattlemens Association
• Among others

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Drafting Committee Membership

• Drafting Committee Members
• County Board of Supervisors (Lisa Atkins)
• Steve Betts
• Ed Fox
• Grady Gammage
• Valley Partnership (Maria Baier)
• Central Arizona Homebuilders (Spencer Kamps/
  Becky Burnham.
• Primary Beneficiaries of State Trust Land
  (Education Community) (Penny Kotterman, Steve
  Duncan)
• Conservation Interests (Andy Laurenzi, Sonoran
  Institute, Peter Culp, Sonoran Institute )
• League of Arizona Cities and Towns (Steve Olson
• State Land Department (Mark Winklemen, State Land
  Commissioner Richard Hubbard, Deputy
  Commissioner)

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Main Advantages for Cities, Towns Counties

• Greater cooperation between Cities, Towns and the
  State Land Department in the Planning,
  Management, and Disposition of State Trust Lands
• The provision of open space and conservation
  lands.
• Conservation Land
• Option Lands
• Planning Process
• Right-of-ways may be resolved
• Right-of Ways Designated for Public Purpose
• Pre-1968 Right-of-ways
• Board of Trustees will improve Accountability

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Moving Legislative Package Forward

• The First Draft was completed in January 2004.
• Lobbyists work towards a November Ballot.
• An ad hoc legislative committee on state trust
  land reform was formed in early June.
• Ad hoc committee reviewed the proposed changes
  and determined that the changes were too complex
  to be reviewed in such a short time.
• The Ad hoc committee proposed to have the
  committee continue to work with the stakeholders
  and have an election in May of 2005.

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For More Information
Contact Michelle Green, 602-254-6300 www.mag.
maricopa.gov