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This article describes the Superstition Vistas area as test case for the Arizona Land Department, which is resposible for 9.3 million acres in the state and is trying to develop a sustainable development policy following the housing bust.

“Now, with the boom gone bust, the land department is hoping to catch its breath long enough to learn a few lessons. Superstition Vistas is a test case of sorts, to see if an agency that minted money by auctioning land to the highest bidder can take a more deliberate approach when the market rebounds. In Superstition’s early planning stages, the land department is delving into the nitty-gritty of land use planning — something it has never attempted on such a scale. It’s also seeking to reform the rules governing state trust lands, which have not been substantially updated since Arizona became a state in 1912.”

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September 1, 2009, 6:00-8:00pm

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If you plan it, they will come. But if you don’t plan it, they will come anyway, turning a vast swath of Pinal County into a cancerous blob of urban sprawl with up to a million new residents.

That’s the thinking behind a $1.7 million exercise that’s about to produce its first report on possible ways to develop Superstition Vistas, a 275-square-mile tract of state trust land in the far southeast Valley.

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Despite the suffocating recession and a change at the helm of the Arizona Land Department, one of the biggest land-planning projects in Arizona history is nearing the end of a crucial early phase.

By late this summer, the East Valley Partnership and the Pinal Partnership will host public meetings to unveil four possible scenarios for developing Superstition Vistas, a 275-square-mile area that lies at the Southeast Valley’s doorstep in northern Pinal County.

The partnerships are consortiums of businesses, civic, educational and political and tribal leaders, that has pushed economic growth
and planning on the east side of the metro area since the early 1980s.

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