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Tea-Publican Tyranny: Micromanaging Cities and Counties
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
The Tea-Publicans from the state of Maricopa despise the City of Tucson and Pima County simply because we are a Democratic colony that they have not yet been able to subjugate under their harsh colonial rule.
The worst offenders, however, are the Tea-Publicans who come from Baja Arizona, the insurgents among us who do the bidding of their Tea-Publican masters from the state of Maricopa in an attempt to subjugate the City of Tucson and Pima County by micromanaging our affairs from Phoenix.
On Tuesday, the Pima County Board of Supervisors adopted two resolutions in opposition to the micromanagment from the state of Maricopa. County opposes 2 bills in Legislature:
The supervisors voted 4-0 to oppose HB 2416, which would force the city to extend water service to the proposed Painted Hills development in the Tucson Mountains.
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The board also voted 4-0 to oppose HB 2757, which would allow electronic billboards on state highways. Such signs are banned in Tucson and unincorporated Pima County.
Retaliation by our colonial overlords did not take long. On Wednesdaty, the House revived a bill requiring Tucson to give water to planned development:
A bill requiring Tucson to deliver water to the proposed Painted Hills development in the Tucson Mountains got a last-minute reprieve in the state House Wednesday.
Narrowly defeated last week on the House floor, the bill passed by a 32-26 vote on reconsideration Wednesday. Passage came after the bill's sponsor reached an agreement with other legislators in late morning to send the proposal to a joint Senate-House committee for further discussion. If it passes the Senate, it will come back to the House for final action.
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Bill sponsor Rep. David Stevens, R-Sierra Vista, said "This bill is trying to handle Painted Hills."
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Chris Avery, Tucson Water's chief counsel, was not pleased by the House's turnaround.
"There is a current bill out there that's a really poorly drafted piece of legislation and that is apparently what got through the House," Avery said. "Arizona can't afford bad water policy. It can't even really afford mediocre water policy, and this is horrible water policy."
As written, the bill prohibits a city or town lying inside a county of 500,000 to 1.3 million people from denying water to landowners outside the city boundaries who aren't in other water utilities' boundaries, if they meet certain conditions. Among the conditions is that they lie near pipelines or other water infrastructure owned by the city in question, or are "accessible" to that pipeline system or are substantially adjacent to the city or town.
The bill's population range limits its impact to Pima County. Its conditions clearly apply to the 284-acre, 260-home Painted Hills project, where Speedway and Anklam Road merge, that has been trying unsuccessfully for many years to get city water service.
[I]f the bill is limited only to Painted Hills, it will be illegal special legislation.
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