Maricopa County Agenda 21 Water Management PlanPosted: 2014-12-26 12-25-14 EVNN
The Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG) meeting on December 3, 2014:
MAG 208 Water Quality Management Plan Amendment for the West Valley Regional Water Reclamation Facility:
"The city of Glendale and Maricopa County requested that the MAG 208 Water Quality Management Plan be amended to include the West Valley Regional WaterReclamation Facility, with an ultimate capacity of eight million gallons per day."
SOURCE: http://www.azmag.gov/Documents/RCAR_2014-12-03_WEB.pdf
What is the "MAG 208 Water Quality Management Plan"?
"Major issues identified during the preparation of this 208 Plan Revision include:
• The Growing Smarter Initiative and Growing Smarter Plus have initiated requirements for extensive growth planning by municipal agencies."
SOURCE: https://www.azmag.gov/Documents/pdf/cms.resource/208FinalReport.pdf
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What is Smart Growth?
"Smart growth is an urban planning and transportation theory that concentrates growth in compact walkable urban centers to avoid sprawl. It also advocates compact, transit-oriented,walkable, bicycle-friendly land use, including neighborhood schools, complete streets, and mixed-use development with a range of housing choices. The term 'smart growth' is particularly used in North America. In Europe and particularly the UK, the terms 'Compact City' or 'urban intensification' have often been used to describe similar concepts, which have influenced government planning policies in the UK, the Netherlands and several other European countries.
Smart growth values long-range, regional considerations of sustainability over a short-term focus. Its sustainable development goals are to achieve a unique sense of community and place; expand the range of transportation, employment, and housing choices; equitably distribute the costs and benefits of development; preserve and enhance natural and cultural resources; and promote public health."
Who has initiated these requirements?
The American Planning Association:
"One of the earliest efforts to establish smart growth forward as an explicit regulatory framework were put forth by the American Planning Association. In 1997, the APA introduced a project called Growing Smart and published "Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook: Model Statutes for Planning and the Management of Change." [1] The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency defines smart growth as “development that serves the economy, the community, and the environment. It changes the terms of the development debate away from the traditional growth/no growth question to how and where should new development be accommodated” [2]"
SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_growth
GET YOUR COPY OF THIS 1,400 page book:
https://www.planning.org/store/product/?ProductCode=BOOK_AGSM
Then there is the Local Agenda 21 Planning Guide: An Introduction To Sustainable Development Planning Produced by I.C.L.E.I. in 1996
I.C.L.E.I. stands for "International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives" (ICLEI)
They have recently changed their name to Local Governments For Sustainability even though the appreviation doesn't fit (who are they trying to fool?)
Here is more on the United Nations Agenda 21:
http://www.crossroad.to/text/articles/la21_198.html
7,800 cities worldwide now sign on to Agenda 21 and are ICLEI members according to Agenda 21 expert Rosa Koire ( this information is not part of any official document online - anymore).
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