Arizona Laws 9-461.08. Authority, scope of specific plans
A. The planning agency may, or if so directed by the legislative body shall, prepare specific plans based on the general plan and drafts of such regulations, programs and legislation as may in the judgment of the agency be required for the systematic execution of the general plan. The planning agency may recommend such plans and measures to the legislative body for adoption.
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 9-461.08
- General plan: means a municipal statement of land development policies, that may include maps, charts, graphs and text that set forth objectives, principles and standards for local growth and redevelopment enacted under the provisions of this article or any prior statute. See Arizona Laws 9-461
- including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- municipality: means an incorporated city or town. See Arizona Laws 9-461
- Planning agency: means the official body designated by local ordinance to carry out the purposes of this article and may be a planning department, a planning commission, a hearing officer, the legislative body itself, or any combination thereof. See Arizona Laws 9-461
- Street: means streets, highways, freeways, expressways, avenues, boulevards, parkways, roads, lanes, walks, alleys, viaducts, subways, tunnels, bridges, public access easements and rights-of-way. See Arizona Laws 9-461
- Subdivision regulations: means a municipal ordinance regulating the design and improvement of subdivisions enacted under the provisions of article 6. See Arizona Laws 9-461
B. Specific plans may, in addition to recommended zoning ordinances and subdivision regulations, include:
1. Regulations determining the location of buildings and other improvements with respect to existing rights-of-way, floodplains and public facilities.
2. Regulations of the use of land, buildings and structures, the height and bulk of buildings and structures and the open spaces around buildings and structures.
3. Street and highway naming and numbering plans in order to establish the official names of streets and highways, to remove conflicts, duplication and uncertainty among such names, and to provide an orderly system for the numbering of buildings and properties.
4. A plan and regulations determining the location of infrastructure service area boundaries, consistent with the growth areas element of the general plan, beyond which the municipality may limit or prescribe conditions on publicly financed extensions of water, sewer and street improvements that are necessary to service needs generated by new development. The plan and regulations shall consider all elements of the general plan, including the circulation and public facilities elements. For purposes of this paragraph, publicly financed does not include special taxing district financing other than municipal or county improvement district revenues or bonds. The regulations shall also provide for:
(a) Assigning or delegating administrative functions, powers and duties to municipal officers.
(b) Establishing the procedure for the initial infrastructure service area boundaries and the methodology and procedures for adjusting the boundaries.
5. Measures required to insure the execution of the general plan.
6. Other matters which will accomplish the purposes of this article, including procedures for the administration of such regulations.