Ajo Copper News, July 13, 2022, Page 10
Scheduled Meeting of the
Pima County Board of Supervisors
This is a notice to inform you that a public hearing (meeting) will be held
on Tuesday, August 2, 2022 at 9:00 AM, at the Pima County Admin-
istration Building - East, Board of Supervisors Hearing Room, 130 W.
Congress St., 1st
Floor, Tucson, AZ 85701, regarding the following
case(s):
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENTS
P22CA00001 STINSON FAMILY TRUST – S. HEADLEY ROAD PLAN
AMENDMENT
Stinson Family Trust, represented by Projects International Inc., re-
quests a Comprehensive Plan amendment of approximately 15.5
acres from the Low Intensity Urban 3.0 (LIU-3.0) to the Medium Low
Intensity Urban (MLIU) land use designation, located on the east side
of S. Headley Road, approximately 1,400 feet south of the intersection
of W. Valencia Road and S. Headley Road, and addressed as 6725 and
6765 S. Headley Road (parcel numbers 138-24-0310 and 138-24-
0320), in Section 15, Township 15 South, Range 13 East, in the South-
west Planning Area. (District 5)
P22CA00002 BELL WARREN JESSICA LIVING TR – W. INA ROAD
PLAN AMENDMENT
Warren/Jessica Bell Living Trust, represented by DEIH Architecture, re-
quests a Comprehensive Plan amendment of approximately 0.83
acres from the Low Intensity Urban 1.2 (LIU-1.2) to the Medium Intensity
Urban (MIU) land use designation, located on the north side of W. Ina
Road, approximately 200 feet east of the intersection of W. Ina Road
and N. San Anna Drive, and addressed as 1722 W. Ina Road (parcel
number 225-47-0070), in Section 34, Township 12 South, Range 13
East, in the Catalina Foothills Planning Area. (District 1)
If you are interested in this case, information and an agenda listing all
cases may be found on the Clerk of the Board’s website at:
https://pima.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx. During the meeting, a case
may be approved, denied, or continued to a future date. If an item is
continued, the new hearing date will be announced at the meeting. Writ-
ten support or protest to the request may be submitted to the Clerk of
the Board at: COB_Mail@pima.gov or to the Development Services De-
partment, Planning Division, 201 N. Stone Avenue, 1st
Floor, Tucson,
AZ 85701, and at: DSDPlanning@pima.gov or by contacting the Plan-
ning Division at (520) 724-8800.
You are advised that if you wish to attend, guidelines are implemented
by the Clerk of the Board. For information, see: https://pima.le-
gistar.com/Calendar.aspx, contact the Clerk of the Board at 724-8449,
or via email COB_Mail@pima.gov
The Board Hearing Room is wheelchair and handicapped accessible.
Any person who is in need of special services (e.g., assistive listening
device, Braille or large print agenda material, signer for hearing im-
paired, accessible parking, etc.) due to any disability will be accommo-
dated. Please contact the Clerk of the Board at 520-724-8449 at least
three (3) business days prior to the Board Meeting.
Scheduled Meeting of the
Pima County Board of Supervisors
This is a notice to inform you that a public hearing (meeting) will be held
on Tuesday, August 2, 2022 at 9:00 AM, at the Pima County Admin-
istration Building - East, Board of Supervisors Hearing Room, 130 W.
Congress St., 1st
Floor, Tucson, AZ 85701, regarding the following
case(s):
ZONING CODE TEXT AMENDMENT
P22TA00001 – NEW AND REVISED MARIJUANA REGULATIONS
AN ORDINANCE OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF PIMA
COUNTY, ARIZONA, RELATING TO ZONING (TITLE 18); AMENDING
THE PIMA COUNTY CODE CHAPTER 18.03 (GENERAL DEFINI-
TIONS), SECTION 18.03.020 (DEFINITIONS), TO REPEAL DEFINI-
TIONS OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA DISPENSARY AND MEDICAL MA-
RIJUANA DISPENSARY OFFSITE CULITIVATION LOCA-
TION, ADOPT DEFINTIONS OF MARIJUANA DISPENSARY, MARI-
JUANA DISPENSARY OFFSITE CULITIVATION LOCATION, AND
MARIJUANA PRODUCT MANUFACTURING LOCATION, AND
AMEND THE DEFINITION OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA QUALIFYING
PATIENT CULIVATION LOCATION; AMENDING CHAPTER 18.13
(RH RURAL HOMESTEAD ZONE), SECTION 18.13.030 (CONDI-
TONAL USES), TO ALLOW MARIJUANA DISPENSARY OFFSITE
CULTIVATION LOCATION AS A CONDITIONAL USE; AMENDING
CHAPTER 18.43 (CB-1 LOCAL BUSINESS ZONE), SECTION
18.43.030 (PERMITTED USES), TO ALLOW MARIJUANAMARIJU-
ANA DISPENSARY, MARIJUANA DISPENSARY OFFSITE CULITIVA-
TION LOCATION, AND MARIJUANA PRODUCT MANUFACTURING
LOCATION AS PERMITTED USES; AMENDING CHAPTER 18.45
(CB-2 GENERAL BUSINESS ZONE), SECTION 18.45.040 (CONDI-
TIONAL USES), TO REPEAL THE REQUIREMENT THAT MARIJU-
ANA DISPENSARIES AND THEIR ASSOCIATED USES REQUIRE A
TYPE III CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT; AND AMENDING CHAPTER
18.51 (CI-1 LIGHT INDUSTRIAL/WAREHOUSING ZONE), SECTION
18.51.030 (PERMITTED USES), TO ALLOW MARIJUANA DISPEN-
SARY OFFSITE CULTIVATION LOCATION AND MARIJUANA PROD-
UCT MANUFACTURING LOCATION AS PERMITTED USES.
(ALL DISTRICTS)
If you are interested in this case, information and an agenda listing all
cases may be found on the Clerk of the Board’s website at:
https://pima.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx. During the meeting, a case
may be approved, denied, or continued to a future date. If an item is
continued, the new hearing date will be announced at the meeting. Writ-
ten support or protest to the request may be submitted to the Clerk of
the Board at: COB_Mail@pima.gov or to the Development Services De-
partment, Planning Division, 201 N. Stone Avenue, 1st
Floor, Tucson,
AZ 85701, and at: DSDPlanning@pima.gov or by contacting the Plan-
ning Division at (520) 724-8800.
You are advised that if you wish to attend, guidelines are implemented
by the Clerk of the Board. For information, see: https://pima.le-
gistar.com/Calendar.aspx, contact the Clerk of the Board at 724-8449,
or via email COB_Mail@pima.gov
The Board Hearing Room is wheelchair and handicapped accessible.
Any person who is in need of special services (e.g., assistive listening
device, Braille or large print agenda material, signer for hearing im-
paired, accessible parking, etc.) due to any disability will be accommo-
dated. Please contact the Clerk of the Board at 520-724-8449 at least
three (3) business days prior to the Board Meeting.
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Pima County adopted budget
The Pima County Board of Supervisors, July 5 approved the com-
bined County budget for fiscal year 2023, which started July 1. The
new $1.93 billion budget includes $67 million for road repairs and $24
million to begin construction on a new, modern facility for the County
Medical Examiner.
The overall County budget is a combination of several separate funds
with their own taxes. The new combined rate is 13¢ per $100 of as-
sessed value lower than the current year and the fifth consecutive year
the Board has reduced the combined County tax rate. The rate for next
fiscal year is 91.32¢ less than the $5.9784 rate in fiscal year 2018. Those
five years of reduced tax rates have allowed County property taxpayers
to avoid millions of dollars in taxes.
Many taxpayers will still see a slight increase in their county property
tax bill due to increased property valuations. Property values have been
increasing steadily the past several years, with overall County property
values up nearly 5% in the valuation year used to set this year’s tax rate.
There are two components to Pima County property taxes – a prop-
erty’s assessed value set by the County Assessor, and the tax rate, which
is set by the Board of Supervisors. Using formulas set by state law, rates
for the different County property taxes are multiplied by the assessed
value to determine the tax bill. The County imposes four types of prop-
erty taxes, and the board took separate votes on the rates for all of them.
The board:
• Voted 4-1 to approve the primary tax rate, which funds the General
Fund that pays for most County services; Adopted tax rate: $3.8764
(same as FY2022)
• Voted 5-0 to approve the Library District budget and tax rate, which
can only be used to fund public library operations; Adopted tax rate:
$0.5453 (an increase of $0.01 from FY22)
• Voted 5-0 to approve the Regional Flood Control District budget and
tax rate, which can only be used to fund flood control projects in the
County; Adopted tax rate: $0.3235 (a decrease of $0.01 from FY22)
• Voted 5-0 to approve the debt service tax rate, which can only be used
to pay back voter-approved general obligation bonds that were used to
fund the construction of County facilities and infrastructure; Adopted
tax rate: $0.32 (a reduction of $0.13 from FY22).
The nearly $67 million in road repairs in fiscal year 2023 is part of
the County’s 10-year PAYGO plan to repair all unincorporated county
roads to good condition by 2030. The county is following a “worst first”
criteria to fix the roads. The county has spent $177 million on road re-
pairs over the past three fiscal years. The county’s interactive map does
not show any work in Ajo at this point. Follow the progress of road re-
pairs by going to https://pimamaps.maps.arcgis.com/home/gallery.html
and choosing Pima County Transportation. To request repairs, go to
www.pima.gov/SeeClickFix or download the SeeClickFix mobile app
for Apple or Android.
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brief, preferably 300 words or
less (the Arizona Daily Star lim-
its writers to 160 words). Long
letters may be held until there is
room. Not all letters to the editor
are published.
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sonal attacks on individuals.
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face the community. Letters on
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and the surrounding area may not
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Ajo Copper News, PO Box 39,
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Covid-19 in 85321
The Zip Code section of
the Arizona Department of
Health Services’ Covid-19 Data
Dashboard showed a cumulative
total of 837 positive cases in the
85321 area as of Wednesday, July
6, an increase of 10. The 85321
area includes Ajo, Why, and a few
of the villages on the western side
of the Tohono O’odham Nation.
The total does not include unre-
ported positive home tests.
The count for Zip Code 85341,
which includes the Lukeville area,
remained at 30 cases.
The count for Zip Code 85634,
which includes a large area of
the Tohono O’odham Nation, in-
creased by 49 to 2580.
The Arizona Department of
Health Services now posts its
Covid-19 data dashboard on
Wednesdays. Because the Ajo
Copper News is sent to the print-
ers – and to digital subscribers
– on Tuesday night, this newspa-
per’s coverage of cases in these
zip codes will lag a week behind.
Readers who want the most cur-
rent data are encouraged to visit
www.azdhs.gov online.
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