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[NOTE: If you are looking for documents or information related to the weekly meetings of the Big Box Subcommittee of the Planning Commission (aka BBSC), please go to the Current Events web page.]
Ordinance No. 9666 was amended at the Mayor and Council meeting of 1/28/02, as described in the section immediately below. The Ordinance was adopted after midnight and thus is dated 1/29/02. It became effective on 3/10/02.
The full text, including the amended section of the Code dealing with Traffic Impacts, is given as a two-page PDF file of Ordinance 9666 (242 Kbytes) and as a shorter typescript version (3 Kbytes).
[The PDF file was generated with TIFF images from a scan of the document. The TIFF images were converted by use of OCR software to the typescript version (.txt format), which is quick to download and can be edited but lacks indentation and other formatting of the parent document.]
The City Council (Mayor Walkup absent) held a public hearing on a draft ordinance that relaxed various requirements of the "Big Box" ordinance passed September 27, 1999.
Council allowed the changes in parking, but not the other changes.
However, the attempt to change the ordinance will come yet again before Mayor and Council: Council charged the Planning Commission with review of the original ordinance in its entirety, rather than selectively as in these amendments.
More details..... (links to press report and to M-C and Planning documents)
Prior to considering amendments to the "Big Box" ordinance, the City Council held a long and somewhat rowdy public hearing on a set of three ordinances on development near Harrison Road and 22nd Street, that relocated a segment of the Old Spanish Trail.
Neighbors in large number vehemently expressed their unhappiness with the proposed relocation; the unhappiness extended to include the proposed Big Box, a Target store. Council did not ignore the tenor of the crowd: the relocation and thus the development plan was not passed. The plan will be revised, presumably without proposed relocation of Old Spanish Trail, and Mayor and Council will revisit the matter and likely pass it.
Neighborhoods when energized can alter a development plan. This group expressed feelings similar to those that surfaced during the El Con hearings.
More details..... (links to press reports and to M-C documents)
Ordinance No. 9293 was passed at the Mayor and Council Meeting of September 27, 1999, as a modified version of the options developed by the Planning Commission. It became effective on 11/11/99. Various court and other tests followed its adoption. All were defeated, and the ordinance stands.
The full text is given in a single 16-page PDF file of Ordinance 9293 (1164 Kbytes) and as a shorter typescript version (27 Kbytes), which also includes Ordinance 9666 at the end of the document.
[The PDF file was generated with TIFF images from a scan of the document. The TIFF images were converted by use of OCR software to the typescript version (.txt format), which is quick to download and can be edited but lacks indentation and other formatting of the parent document.]
Resolution No. 18489 was passed at the Mayor and Council Meeting of February 14, 2000 [see below]. It became effective on 3/19/00.
The full text of the resolution with attachments is given in four PDF files:
The text of Resolution No. 18489 (file 1) and the Conditions (file 4, Exhibit C) are also given as a single short typescript file (46 Kbytes).
[The PDF file was generated with TIFF images from a scan of the document. The TIFF images were converted by use of OCR software to the typescript version (.txt format), which is quick to download and can be edited but lacks indentation and other formatting of the parent document.]
Ordinance No. 9345 was passed at the Mayor and Council Meeting of February 14, 2000 [see below]. It became effective on 3/19/00.
The full text is given as a ten-page PDF file of the Ordinance and El Con Mall Conditions (1189 Kbytes) and as a shorter typescript version (16 Kbytes). The Conditions are identical with those of the attachment Exhibit C ( PDF file 4) of Resolution No. 18489 [see above].
[The PDF file was generated with TIFF images from a scan of the document. The TIFF images were converted by use of OCR software to the typescript version (.txt format), which is quick to download and can be edited but lacks indentation and other formatting of the parent document.]
Adoption of the El Con Mall Development Agreement brought about suspension of a public and fierce battle between the owners of El Con Mall and residents of the surrounding historic neighborhoods. [One expects hostilities will resume, in view of continuing requests by owners of the Mall for variances and the eagerness of the Mayor and Council to grant them, presumably with the understanding that, if there is even only a prospect of favoring commerce, to break an agreement brings no dishonor.]
More details..... (links to press reports and to M-C documents)
The essentially identical Arizona House and Senate bills HB2250 and SB1114, respectively, set the assessment ratios for all classes of property at 10 percent of full cash value for purposes of computing and levying secondary property taxes. The effect is to shift significantly the tax burden from owners of commercial property and agricultural or vacant land to owners of residential property. For owners of historic residential property, for which the current assessment ratio is 5 percent, the effect of the legislation would be to increase in the property tax bill by 40 percent.
More details..... (with links to explanatory documents)
by J. A. Velina
[edited by John Rupley]
We report here a theoretical treatment of the well-known Developer-Neighbor (D-N) problem. Our analysis provides deep understanding, explains observed effects, and predicts the optimal resolution of the problem.
We address the D-N problem through the Ising model.
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by John Rupley
This web page is sketchy, in near outline form, and comprised principally of links to websites or articles or simulations. It was constructed from a set of notes, in the form of logged websites, assembled out of curiosity about what's been happening in the modeling of traffic flow and not with the intent of developing a careful review of the field. Please expect a significant number of the referenced URL's to be dead, owing to instability of university and local government systems.
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by John Rupley
We are surrounded by Luddite mobs. Pity our children, it will get worse.
Before WWII the industrial revolution had reached an equilibrium. Rousseau was a dead white male, Californians weren't moving to Alaska for the simple life (there becoming mass murderers), Greens were not with us, nor was Nader. The horror of WWII did not destroy the pre-War world view. During the 50's America prospered; Western Europe and Japan were rebuilt as free democracies. The 60's and 70's, however, were from another mold. One can't blame those times on the atom bomb, perhaps, but it was then that opposition to nuclear weapons, rational behavior in which many leading physicists indulged themselves, evolved into wide-spread opposition to nuclear power. A small number of activists, not the aforementioned physicists, were able to play the fear and ignorance of a majority of the population of this country into a halt on construction of nuclear plants.
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The website of the Tucson Police Department provides crime statistics online for dates from January 1, 1999, to the present. The following examples are statistics for El Encanto Estates:
Some flavor of Unix is the typical operating system on workstations and supercomputers, is commonly found on servers, and is increasingly likely to be used on personal machines, in the form of Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, etc. Following are some pages that list frequently-used Unix commands, with the intent of helping a Unix novice begin use of a Unix system.
If you need to learn Unix above the bare-bones simplest level, e.g., in order to be comfortable with it as the operating system on your main machine, the few pages listed here are unlikely to be helpful and you should consult the person or books recommended by the system administrator. Acquiring a high comfort level with Unix requires some effort: the learing curve is sigmoidal -- disappointingly slow at first, then a burst of gain in confidence and competence, becoming after some time asymptotic in that Unix lore and practice is inexhaustible.
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