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http://www.arizonarepublic.com/arizona/articles/0106nebriefs06.html

Napolitano aide to talk to preservation group

CAREFREE - The national resources and environmental policies of the state's new administration will be discussed at the annual meeting of the Desert Foothills Land Trust at 7 p.m. Jan. 15, at the Carefree Resort and Villas, 37220 N. Mule Train Road.

The guest speaker will be Lori Faeth, Gov. Janet Napolitano's policy adviser for natural resources and the environment. RSVP by Jan. 13 to (480) 488-6131.

http://www.azlcvedfund.org/people/lori.html

Lori Faeth

Lori Faeth is the Director of Government Relations for The Nature Conservancy of Arizona. She has worked for the Conservancy since 1992 and has experience in creating and passing funding initiatives for conservation at the state and local level, as well as developing public policy measures to further conservation. She represents the Conservancy's Arizona program before the state legislature and Congress and oversees the chapter's public policy program.

Prior to moving to Phoenix, Arizona in 1997, she worked for the World Wide Office of The Nature Conservancy as part of the Government and Community Relations Division. Lori studied Real Estate as part of the Pennsylvania State University continuing education program and left a successful residential and investment real estate practice in central Pennsylvania to relocate to the Washington D.C. metro area, where she joined the Conservancy.

She lives in Phoenix with her two sons and in addition to spending time with her teenagers enjoys reading, movies, hiking with her dog Rio and running.

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The Desert Foothills Land Trust has been working with Jane Hull's Agenda 21 Smart Growth folks since as far back as June1998, as shown here. Napolitano following her lead. Republican? Democrat? Does it matter?

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The "Growing Smarter" plan also includes several significant reforms to planning and zoning statutes for cities and counties. These include requirements that general and comprehensive plans be updated every 10 year; that rezoning be in conformity with the plans; that amendments pass with a two-thirds super-majority vote of the governing body; that open space, environmental and growth areas be part of the plans; and that development be required to pay its "fair share" toward the cost of additional public facilities or service needs.

Representatives of groups from across the state identified parcels of State Trust land they hope to preserve through the Arizona Preserve Initiative process, including P.A. Seitts of the Desert Foothills Land Trust in Cave Creek; Luther Probst of the Sonoran Institute in Tucson; and Carla of the McDowell Sonoran Land Trust in Scottsdale. Also present was Anne Coe of the Superstition Area Land Trust in Pinal County, which officially endorsed the Growing Smarter plan at the press conference. In addition, Phoenix Mayor Skip Rimsza said the funding may help the City of Phoenix to implement its comprehensive open space plan.