Open Space/Anti-Encroachment Bond in southern Arizona

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Paying to preserve
County bond election: Open space - $174.3 million
Bond question would cost the owner of a $150,000 home $18 a year in taxes


Tucson Citizen
GARRY DUFFY
April 28, 2004

Depending on who is talking, the $174.3 million bond package to buy
empty land spread across the county represents a last chance to preserve
part of the rapidly disappearing Sonoran Desert, or is a public funds
boondoggle that will cost far more than the advertised price.

Approval of The Sonoran Desert Open Space and Habitat Protection;
Preventing Urban Encroachment of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base question
would add about $18.39 a year in property taxes on a home valued by the
assessor at $150,000. The money will be used to purchase public and
private land scattered around the Tucson area.

It includes $10 million to buy land near D-M to slow encroachment, a
move aimed at helping preserve the base during next year's round of
planned military base closures.

Much of the land would become the core of the county's still unadopted
Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan. The plan would identify and
permanently set aside land important to endangered and vulnerable animal
and plant species, while providing developers with some certainty where
they can build without fear of running afoul of federal wildlife
officials. Other lands in more urbanized areas would be set aside as
community open space.

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for the entire story, see
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/index.php?page=local&story_id=042804a1_bondspace>

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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