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Guest Comment : Improve regional planning to help Sahuarita grow
By Mayor Lynne Skelton
Your alarm clock rings. You wake up and see the sun coming over the horizon and powering the electricity in your house.
As you get ready for work, you mentally run through the day ahead, looking forward to your family’s weekly Wednesday night tradition of riding your bicycle to the Farmer’s Market at the Town Center.
Time to go to work. You leave by 7:50 a.m. to arrive at your office just down Sahuarita Road promptly at 8 a.m.
Sound like a utopian fantasy? This is my vision for Sahuarita in 20 years.
I am confident that by working together with proper regional planning, this idea will become reality.
Let me tell you a few steps that your Town is taking to accomplish this vision:
With this plan, we will build on the strengths that the Town’s highly educated workforce has to offer and bring more employment opportunities to the community, allowing Sahuarita to be a community where people can live and work.
On Oct. 27, the Sahuarita Town Council approved a General Plan amendment for 16 square miles of State Trust Land to the east of Town.
This area is critical for our future and for giving the Town room to grow, especially for employment uses identified in the Strategic Plan.
The Town is also moving forward with transportation projects that are key to our future.
In the next few months, we will break ground on the Sahuarita Road improvement project paid for by the Regional Transportation Authority.
This project will transform the look of our Town Center area, making travel through Sahuarita safer and more efficient.
Land use planning also plays a role in our social and educational future.
Want solar energy or renewable water?
What about schools to continue to develop our highly educated workforce?
We must work now to accommodate these goals in our land use plans and develop the infrastructure.
These goals cannot be accomplished in a vacuum, which is why Sahuarita is also planning regionally.
Town officials and staff collaborate with our regional neighbors to make sure that our local decisions also benefit the greater community.
As Mayor, I invite you to join me in order to make Sahuarita a thriving, sustainable community where people live, work and play.
Let’s embark on this vision to capture and preserve Sahuarita’s distinctiveness while planning for its future.
On Dec. 3, I will participate in the Tucson Regional Town Hall Community Conversation on Land Use.
Please join me at this important public forum to discuss how we can move forward in the right direction and the critical role that land use planning plays in our collective vision.
For more information on the Tucson Regional Town Hall, please visit www.tucsontownhall.org.
I hope to see you there.
To attend the Tucson Regional Town Hall on Land Use, call 800-321-5011 or email Shelia.hamilton@uli.org.
Lynne Skelton was chosen unanimously by the Sahuarita Town Council to be Mayor in June 2006. She has served on the Town Council since 1999 and has been a Sahuarita resident for more than 15 years. Skelton’s favorite things about Sahuarita are the people and the diversity that everyone brings to the community.
The views expressed are the writer’s own and do not necessarily reflect those of this newspaper.
As you get ready for work, you mentally run through the day ahead, looking forward to your family’s weekly Wednesday night tradition of riding your bicycle to the Farmer’s Market at the Town Center.
Time to go to work. You leave by 7:50 a.m. to arrive at your office just down Sahuarita Road promptly at 8 a.m.
Sound like a utopian fantasy? This is my vision for Sahuarita in 20 years.
I am confident that by working together with proper regional planning, this idea will become reality.
Let me tell you a few steps that your Town is taking to accomplish this vision:
The Sahuarita Economic Development Commission, Town Council and staff have been developing the Strategic Plan for Economic Development.
With this plan, we will build on the strengths that the Town’s highly educated workforce has to offer and bring more employment opportunities to the community, allowing Sahuarita to be a community where people can live and work.
On Oct. 27, the Sahuarita Town Council approved a General Plan amendment for 16 square miles of State Trust Land to the east of Town.
This area is critical for our future and for giving the Town room to grow, especially for employment uses identified in the Strategic Plan.
The Town is also moving forward with transportation projects that are key to our future.
In the next few months, we will break ground on the Sahuarita Road improvement project paid for by the Regional Transportation Authority.
This project will transform the look of our Town Center area, making travel through Sahuarita safer and more efficient.
Land use planning also plays a role in our social and educational future.
Want solar energy or renewable water?
What about schools to continue to develop our highly educated workforce?
We must work now to accommodate these goals in our land use plans and develop the infrastructure.
These goals cannot be accomplished in a vacuum, which is why Sahuarita is also planning regionally.
Town officials and staff collaborate with our regional neighbors to make sure that our local decisions also benefit the greater community.
As Mayor, I invite you to join me in order to make Sahuarita a thriving, sustainable community where people live, work and play.
Let’s embark on this vision to capture and preserve Sahuarita’s distinctiveness while planning for its future.
On Dec. 3, I will participate in the Tucson Regional Town Hall Community Conversation on Land Use.
Please join me at this important public forum to discuss how we can move forward in the right direction and the critical role that land use planning plays in our collective vision.
For more information on the Tucson Regional Town Hall, please visit www.tucsontownhall.org.
I hope to see you there.
To attend the Tucson Regional Town Hall on Land Use, call 800-321-5011 or email Shelia.hamilton@uli.org.
Lynne Skelton was chosen unanimously by the Sahuarita Town Council to be Mayor in June 2006. She has served on the Town Council since 1999 and has been a Sahuarita resident for more than 15 years. Skelton’s favorite things about Sahuarita are the people and the diversity that everyone brings to the community.
The views expressed are the writer’s own and do not necessarily reflect those of this newspaper.
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