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Midtown Garden District Neighborhood Plan - 2008
The purpose of this plan was to assist residents of the Midtown Garden District Neighborhood in making decisions about the future of the community. The goal of ths plan was to include many different voices form the Midtown Garden District Neighborhood in order to eunsure the document's viability. The neighborhood is very proud of its 'gems' which include the Tucson Bontanical Gardens, the Martha Cooper Branch Library and Learning Center and the John B. Wright Elementary School.

Southlands Foundation Study - 2007
The Southlands Foundation Study is a report on the various factors that influence development in an emerging future growth area of approximately 225 sq miles in, and ajacent to, the City of Tucson. The focus of the study was to provide a conceptual decision making tool. This study was used to see how different development forms played out on the land and to present new ideas that could be implemented. The study compared and contrasted three different scenarios with density as the vairable. As the density changed in each scenario, the implications for land development also changed.

The Richland Heights Neighborhood Plan - 2007
The Richland Heights Neighborhood comprehensive plan adopted a vision statement to preserve and enhance the quality of the neighborhood through active planning and resident involvement.  The goal was to shoot for a high quality of life by focusing on guiding development, improving neighborhood safely, maintaining the southwest desert environment and enhancing public spaces.

The Bridgewater Channel Redevelopment Plan - 2007
The Bridgewater Channel in Lake Havasu City, AZ is curently underperforming. Lake Havasu City has identified the Channel as a priority for redevelopment. The area has an enormous potential for regional tourism as well as local use. It is the City's goal to have a plan that facilitates tourism and regional recognition. In response to this, our program here at the UA has developed this redevelopment plan that provides specific redevelopment strategies for the Bridgewater Channel Area.

The Town of Jerome Comprehensive Plan - 2006
This comprehensive plan focused on six major areas of land use, sustainability and growth control, circulation, housing, economic development, and open space and recreation. As an historic mining town with limited ways to expand, the community is being guided by a plan to assist them in maintaining its historic integrity while accommodating new development. With its limited resources, particularly water, the timing and type of development needs to be directed by the community to sustain its livability while overcoming its unique location, land use patterns and size to stimulate economic development.

Miracle Manor Neighborhood Action Plan - 2005
Winner of the 2006 Arizona Planning Association Best Student Project Award. This document is focused on the issues facing a neighborhood in decline and the actions residents can take to reverse the trend. There is a great deal of potential for the neighborhood due to its central location and convenient freeway access. The clearly defined goals, objectives, and action strategies and easy-to-follow matrix of action steps have allowed the neighborhood to immediately put into action some of the most pressing strategies.

Arizona City Area Plan - 2004
Winner of the 2005 Arizona Planning Association Best Student Project Award, this area plan for a 1960s master-planned community establishes a course of action for managing the rapid growth of the region while maintaining the sense of community.  Based on public participation efforts, the plan focuses on major community issues including water resources, governance, and economic development.  The plan is considered a major planning tool for both the unincorporated community and Pinal County which are experiencing explosive growth.

Summit Neighborhood Plan - 2003
Winner of the 2004 Arizona Planning Association Best Student Project Award.  Partnering with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and Pima County , this plan serves as a resource book for local residents as well as providing the vision of residents with its goals, objectives and strategies.  As a colonias, this community has required further assistance which was made possible through the plan.

Vision 2020: A Community Plan for Green Valley, Arizona
This document is a Community Plan that will help guide Green Valley’s planning and land use efforts for the next 15 to 20 years. The University of Arizona School of Planning, Planning Projects Team compiled Vision 2020: A Community Plan for Green Valley, Arizona in Fall 2002 based on public participation efforts conducted by the School of Planning in Spring 2002. The team worked closely with the Green Valley Community Coordinating Council Executive Board (the Board) to gather baseline information, analyze data and make recommendations. The class also incorporated “Healthy Cities” concepts and “Smart Growth” principles in formulating many of its recommendations.

Urban Redevelopment Master Plan for Barrio Exposition in Panama City, Panama
The final product includes prototypical planning and design solutions for the 20-block area of the Exposition Barrio. (The area includes Calle 31 on the West, Calle 36 on the East, Via España on the North, and Ave. Balboa on the South.) It is hoped that the alternative conceptual solutions generated in this study, might have relevance to other sectors of the Barrio and the city, and therefore may provide a cohesive planning model for urban development within Panama City.

ZZ Cattle Ranch: Development Concept Plan
Winner of the 2002 Arizona Planning Association Student Planning Project Award, this document is one component of the response by U of A Planning, and it is the final report of a semester long project undertaken by the student authors and their project leaders. This Plan is the result of a process that entailed the exploration and formulation of alternative development schemes for generating revenues with the overriding goal of maintaining the integrity of the project site through environmentally sound initiatives.

The Economic Development Plan for The Hopi Winslow Trust Property
Winner of the 2001 American Institute of Certified Planners Student Project Award and the 2000 Arizona Planning Association Student Planning Project Award, this document presents a number of land use alternatives for the development of a 200 acre parcel of Hopi Trust Land outside Winslow, Arizona. The Economic Development Plan for The Hopi Winslow Trust Property

Ajo Community Comprehensive Plan
Winner of the 2001 University of Arizona Student Showcase, the "Ajo Vision" Comprehensive Plan is a policy document that provides guidelines and action items for both new development and the enhancement of the existing portions of the community. It is the intent of the comprehensive plan to achieve a balance between the physical, social, and economic components of this unique and special community.

The Nogales International Business, Training, and Cultural Park
The goal for students in Planning 611 was to refine the conceptual land use proposals and prepare implementation and phasing strategies for NIBTC Park. Fall 2000

City of Coolidge Comprehensive Plan
In an effort to revise its comprehensive plan, the City of Coolidge joined forces with the Arizona Department of Commerce and University of Arizona's Department of Agriculture to meet the Arizona State Legislature's Growing Smarter policy. Spring 2000

Myers Neighborhood Resource Plan
Winner of the 2000 Arizona Planning Association Student Planning Project Award, this document is a comprehensive plan for a neighborhood in Tucson, AZ. Residents worked together with the student Planning Team to prepare a plan to enhance the physical characteristics of the neighborhood, strengthen neighborhood relations, and serve as a framework to guiding the neighborhood's future.



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