Questions:

1. Arizona law mandates that the Pinal Comprehensive Plan contain an element addressing water resources.

Specifically, Title 11 Section 806 of the Arizona Revised Statutes requires that the Pinal County Comprehensive Plan include an "analysis of how the future growth projected in the county will be adequately served by the legally and physically available water supply or a plan to obtain additional necessary water supplies."

Your draft plan does not contain any such analysis. In fact, your draft plan does not even have a section on water resources. 

Since this is a draft plan and because there is no section addressing the Water Resources Element of your plan, it is reasonable to conclude that your Pinal Planning & Development department does not yet have a draft of the Water Resources Element defining "how the future growth projected in the county will be adequately served by the legally and physically available water supply or a plan to obtain additional necessary water supplies."

However, your draft plan does contain a land use map indicating that Pinal Planing and Development is proposing massive development in Area 4B by authorizing developments that will house over 117,000 people¹.

1. Please explain why you have planned to put over 117,000 people in Area 4B, before you have a draft for a plan assuring that there is an adequate water supply to support them as required by A.R.S. 11 § 806. 
2. If your decision to put over 117,000 people in Area 4B was supported by a draft Water Resource Element for your Comprehensive Plan, please explain why you failed to publish it in your draft Comprehensive Plan. 
3. Please identify any and all individuals or organizations, with the exception of Pinal County employees, that have helped your department in any matter related to the Water Resources Element of your Comprehensive Plan. 
4. Please disclose the costs to Pinal County to hire the individuals or organizations that have helped your department in any matter related to the Water Resources Element of your Comprehensive Plan.
5. For each individuals or organizations that have helped your department in any matter related to the Water Resources Element of your Comprehensive Plan, please disclose the date that that person or organization began work on the Water Resources Element of the Pinal County Comprehensive Plan.
6. Please list the individuals or organizations that have helped your department in any matter related to the Water Resources Element of your Comprehensive Plan that currently work for or are under contract with any of the landowners and/or developers involved with any proposed development in Area 4B. 
7. If any of these individuals or organizations that work for or are under contract with any of the landowners and/or developers involved with any proposed development in Area 4B, please list the developer(s) and/or landowner(s) using that individual or organization.

2. As you know, the Pinal County web site has both on-line and printed questionnaires to allow residents to provide input to the Pinal County Comprehensive Plan. 

As of this writing, the Pinal County web page that provides residents access to these questionnaires leads residents to believe that the county-provided questionnaires cover all of the information needed to make the Comprehensive Plan viable (emphasis supplied)²: 

Your Involvement with the Comprehensive Plan...
  Pinal County needs your help in gathering all of the information needed to make this a viable Plan, and a Plan that reflects the needs of its citizens. Below are the two forms you can download and fill out to voice your opinions and comments. Return information is listed at the bottom of both forms for your convenience.

However, neither the on-line nor the printed questionnaires currently available on the Pinal County web site address the issue of a sufficient water supply.

During your meeting to gather input for your Comprehensive Plan held at the Oracle Seniors Center July 18, 2001, Joe Bidwell³ asked you why the questionnaires available on the Pinal County web site failed to address the issue of a sufficient water supply.

You told Bidwell that this omission was a "clerical error" and suggested that he make a note to the effect that the questionnaire did not cover water resources on his questionnaire and submit it to your department.

1. In light of the facts:
1. That you were told that your questionnaires failed to allow residents to offer input to the Water Resource Element of your Comprehensive Plan on 7/18/01 
2. That you explained this omission as a "clerical error," 
3. That the questionnaires available through the Pinal County web site have remained unchanged since 6/27/01⁴ 
4. That the Pinal County web site continues to falsely imply that residents have the opportunity to offer input on "all of the information needed to make this a viable plan," even though you were made aware that the questionnaires fail to address the Water Resources Element on 7/18/01, some 7 weeks ago,
 
It appears as though you and your department are attempting to mislead residents into believing that they have the opportunity to input to all the elements of the plan, when you know that they do not.

Please explain why you failed to correct the questionnaires to allow residents to input on your Water Resources Element of your Comprehensive Plan when you knew that the questionnaires were flawed at least 7 weeks ago.

Please explain why you have allowed the Pinal County web site to continue to falsely imply that residents have the opportunity to offer input on "all of the information needed to make this a viable plan," when you knew that the Water Resources Element was missing from the questionnaires at least 7 weeks ago.
 

2. In light of the fact that the Pinal County web site says that Pinal County needs the help of residents in gathering all of the information required to make the Comprehensive Plan viable, please explain why you believe the Comprehensive Plan will be viable since residents have not been able to input on the Water Resources Element of your plan.




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1: See Appendix A for basis of estimate
2: http://www.co.pinal.az.us/PlanDev/PDCP/CPInfo.html
3: Bidlwell lives on his property located very close to the proposed Willow Springs development and is a 17-year resident of the area.
4: The document information for the PDF form of the questionnaires available on the Pinal County web site, show that the last update was 6/27/01