Title
Code Text Amendment
The Board of Supervisors on October 15, 2013, continued the following:
Co8-11-06, RENEWABLE ENERGY INCENTIVE DISTRICT (REID)
An ordinance of the Board of Supervisors of Pima County, Arizona; amending Section 14.04.010 REID Site Maps of Chapter 14.04 Maps of Title 14 Renewable Energy Incentive District (REID) of the Pima County Code to correct several Scrivener's mapping errors, replace the existing ordinance maps with more readable maps, and present the ordinance before the Board of Supervisors for an annual review. The Renewable Energy Incentive District (REID) ordinance designated specific sites where utility-scale solar facilities may be developed more expeditiously; specified REID site criteria; established performance standards and an incentive plan for the facility development; and provided a process for amending REID site criteria and designating new REID sites.
1. The scrivener's mapping errors requested for correction are:
a) Removing the area designated "Important Riparian Area" according to the Pima County Comprehensive Plan's Maeveen Marie Behan Conservation Lands System as REID sites within Tax Code Parcels 303-09-0030 and 305-01-0030. Areas designated as "Important Riparian Areas" do not qualify as REID sites. The subject parcels are located on the west and east sides of Wilmot Road and two miles south of the Old Vail Connection Road. The Tax Code Parcel 303-09-0030 is within the Swan Southlands Specific Plan site and the other parcel is east of the specific plan site. Inclusion of the areas was an inadvertent error made during the development of the REID ordinance process; and
b) Correctly reflecting on the "Northwest" REID ordinance map, the Board of Supervisors decision on April 3, 2012 to remove Tax Code Parcels 208-41-036F, 208-41-036G, 208-41-046D, 208-41-060A, 208-41-060B, 208-41-036D, and 208-41-0510 as designated REID sites. The subject parcels are located near Manville Road and west of Sandario Road. The sites were inadvertently left on the REID ordinance map for that area and should have been removed.
2. The proposed ordinance map replacements will be more readable than the current ordinance maps and will delineate Tier 1 REID sites from Tier 2 REID sites.
3. The ordinance shall also be presented to the Board of Supervisors for an annual review. Section 2 of Ordinance 2012-16 states: "This ordinance shall be reconsidered by the Board of Supervisors with respect amending the REID site and/or amending the criteria for designating REID sites approximately one year after its adoption date".
On motion, the Planning and Zoning Commission voted 7-0 (Commissioners Poulos, Membrila, and Holdridge were absent) to recommend APPROVAL. Staff recommends APPROVAL. (ALL DISTRICTS)
If approved, pass and adopt: ORDINANCE NO. 2013 - 46