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Take Action: Realizing a Greater Tucson Region

Take Action: Realizing a Greater Tucson Region. What Is Imagine Greater Tucson?. Community-based collaborative effort Create a common vision Action plan to bring the vision to reality. Our Origins. Imagine Greater Tucson organized (Early 2009)

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Take Action: Realizing a Greater Tucson Region

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  1. Take Action: Realizing a Greater Tucson Region

  2. What Is Imagine Greater Tucson? • Community-based collaborative effort • Create a common vision • Action plan to bring the vision to reality

  3. Our Origins Imagine Greater Tucson organized (Early 2009) Initiating Team of 125 diverse individuals Process kicked off Sept. 30th, 2010

  4. The Purpose To Make our Community a Vibrant and Healthy Place to Live, Work, Learn, and Play for Current and Future Generations of all Ages.

  5. “Talk Phase” Qualitative Insights into Core Values: Community Conversations and Web Surveys • What do you like about living in the Tucson region? Why? • What would you change or improve? Why?

  6. “Talk Phase” Projecting Core Values for the Community Random Sample Survey and Community Panel • Confirming and supplementing qualitative findings • Providing data to “inform” the modeling process

  7. 9 Principles • Accessibility • Educational Excellence • Environmental Integrity • Good Governance • Healthy Communities • Higher Education • Prosperity • Quality Neighborhoods • Regional Identity

  8. IGT Process Community Conversations Oct. 2010-Mar. 2011 4,500 Vision Development Mar. – Fall 2012 …over 10,000! Scenario Building Workshops May-June 2011 700 Choices & Tradeoffs Jan.-Mar. 2012 6,700

  9. Downtown Mixed-Use Urban Residential Standard and Rural Residential Employment Existing Development Pascua Yaqui, Tohono O'odham Preserves, Committed Open Space Four Alternative Futures Alternative 2: Centers and Suburbs Alternative 1: The Trend Alternative 3: New Centers Alternative 4: Urban Centers

  10. What Have We Heard? Residents want: OPPORTUNITY -attend good schools, find good jobs, and have a high quality of life ACCESSIBILITY -afford the things we need and want and get to where we need to go IDENTITY -live in region that honors its past, people, and natural surroundings CHOICES -to have a choice in the types of neighborhoods, homes, destinations, and travel options And to live in a region that is more… Compact, walkable / bikeable, greener, & transit-oriented

  11. Alternative Choice: The Region

  12. Sub-regions

  13. Alternative Choice: Subregions

  14. Priorities Which of these items is most important to you as the region grows and develops?

  15. Transportation Funding Thinking of future transportation needs for yourself and the Greater Tucson Region, which of the following do you think should be prioritized for future funding?

  16. Neighborhood Choice If you were able to select an ideal area to live in, which of the following would you choose for you and/or your family?

  17. What People Want • Quality Places and Neighborhood Choices • A Strong and Diverse Economy • Conservation of Resources • An Accessible Region • Regional Collaboration

  18. Quality Places and Neighborhood Choices • Create complete, integrated, multi-generational communities • Expand our developed park system and create public gathering places • Provide a wide range of neighborhoods with safe, affordable housing options • Develop regional town centers • Build on recent successes in downtown Tucson

  19. A Strong and Diverse Economy • Promote and leverage our region’s economic strengths and emerging clusters • Develop a well-educated and skilled workforce • Support small and local business

  20. Conservation of Resources • Continue to improve water conservation in our region • Increase energy efficiency in our region’s buildings • Maintain the quality of our air • Protect and conserve unique and biologically sensitive lands • Expand natural outdoor recreation opportunities • Increase the value of developable private and state trust lands

  21. An Accessible Region • Enhance and diversify our transit system • Maintain and improve our roads and roadway network • Promote walking and biking • Develop a regional strategy that coordinates transportation and land use planning

  22. Regional Collaboration • Institute and support a regional decision-making process based on the Vision • Increase inter-jurisdictional cooperation and collaboration • Establish more regulatory certainty in the development process • Promote inclusiveness and transparent public processes in decision-making

  23. Support JURISDICTIONS to integrate the Vision into long-range planning

  24. IGT Moving Forward • Grounded in the Vision - Guided by the Shared Regional Values • Work impartially with all segments of our region • Cooperate with local governments • Build a foundation for future transportation investment • Take Action Days that mobilize our community • Seek partners from throughout the community • Continue to engage our community for input and validation • Tucson Regional Indicators Project (TRIP) to track progress

  25. For your copy of The Vision for a Greater Tucson Region, please visit: ImagineGreaterTucson.org or mail a request to P.O. Box 57719 Tucson, AZ 85732

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