Communities
and Youth Camps to Benefit from Land Exchange
Northern
Arizona’s communities and six youth camps support this bill,
as it will allow them to acquire federal lands that will be exchanged
to Yavapai Ranch, providing them beneficial economic and land
use management opportunities.
Flagstaff Benefits - The proposed Yavapai Ranch Land
exchange will provide the City of Flagstaff with land to fulfill
important components of its Regional Land Use and Transportation
Plan. The City will have the opportunity to acquire land to:
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Expand and improve Pulliam Airport with federal grant monies,
and ensure quality air service and connectivity for
tourists and
business travelers.
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Provide
additional land for the airport business park to accommodate
light industry
and other companies that will diversify
the region’s employment base.
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Develop
a new City park, recreational areas, and public works yard.
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Obtain
ownership of land on which the City water treatment plant
is located.
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Provide
land for affordable housing.
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The
trade clusters planned development on already impacted
sites where communities have planned for growth. |
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Williams
Benefits – Williams will have the opportunity to
acquire 950 acres for its comprehensive water program, airport expansion
and tourism.
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Comprehensive water program
• current and new well sites
• water storage tanks
• drinking water treatment plant
• wastewater facility
• Airport Improvements
• Runway extension
• Commercial and business park
• Elephant Rocks Golf Course
• Clubhouse
• Acquire lands for the original nine holes.
• Town Park site
Verde
Valley Communities
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Consolidation
of current Yavapai Ranch lands into Forest Service ownership
will protect approximately 25,000 acres from future development
above the Verde Valley, a reduction of 8,500 to 10,000 homes
that could have been built in the Verde watershed.
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The
newly privatized lands will help these communities accommodate
growth and provide new tax revenues.
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Development
on the Verde parcels would be subject to the new Camp Verde
and Cottonwood Declarations for water use restrictions,
water source limitations and water conservation measures,
and the Clarkdale General Plan.
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Camp
Verde will have the opportunity to: |
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Acquire
land along the General Crook Highway for view shed protection. |
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The
Town and Fire District would have the opportunity to
acquire land for an emergency center fire station and
urgent
care
facility with close proximity to the freeway for quick
response. |
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A
planned retail/commercial development along I-17 would add
to the tax base.
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The
Town of Clarkdale and the City of Cottonwood will benefit
by having new lands in their
tax base and housing market diversification. |
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Residential
and commercial development on land conveyed to Yavapai Ranch
would honor existing zoning density and meet water conservation
and use restrictions that are projected to be the model
for future developments. |
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Development
would adhere to the new Cottonwood Water Declaration and
the Clarkdale General Plan. |
Youth
Camps – Six youth camps would have the opportunity
to acquire lands currently leased, and to benefit from full ownership
and management of the properties for their programs.
• Young Life Lost Canyon Camp
• Friendly Pines Camp
• YMCA Sky-Y Camp
• Pine Summit Camp
• Temple Beth Israel’s Camp Charles Pearlstein
• The Roman Catholic Church of Phoenix Patterdale Pines
Camp.
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