The MISSION of the Verde Valley Regional Economic Organization is to expand the regional economy through business attraction, retention, expansion and quality job creation while maintaining a sense of place.
The VISION of the Verde Valley Regional Economic Organization is a collaborative partnership with a structure and strategy for sustainable regional economic prosperity.
CORE VALUES
I. Regional Economic Wealth Development
Guiding Principles:
Future planning should promote a broad spectrum of business and employment that serve diverse community needs and encourage the personal growth and wealth development of residents as part of a healthy regional economy.
Local, state and tribal leaders should work together to strengthen local and regional opportunities for business growth and diverse economic development. Future planning should encourage regional economic cooperation to be more effective in a climate of increasing global competition.
Sustainable economic development and vitality should be an integral goal of future local planning activities.
II. Stewardship
Guiding Principles:
Future planning should recognize that clean water and clean air are essential elements of public health and quality of life for Verde Valley residents, visitors, and future generations. These vital resources should be preserved and protected, and future land use and infrastructure planning should incorporate this recognition.
Natural open land and native wildlife have intrinsic value and are critical to maintaining the character, identity, and health of Verde Valley for residents, visitors, and future generations and should be accommodated in all future planning decisions.
Effective stewardship of natural areas is essential to preserve and protect their intrinsic character and beauty and should be integrated in all future plans.
III. Sense of Place
Guiding Principles:
Future local plans should be based on a “vision” of each community’s future that incorporates citizens’ input and reflects the community’s desires within a regional context.
Strengthening and preserving each community’s culture, history, and vitality are important to residents and the attraction of future residents and should be important considerations
The public and private sector should partner to preserve and/or conserve special places and provide reasonable access to them.
Communities of diverse character and heritage define our region; and future regional and local plans and investments should conserve, value, and respect each local community’s “sense of place” and promote distinct community identities and unique contributions to the region.
Access to undeveloped, public, natural areas is critical to maintaining the character and identity of the Verde Valley and its many differing geographic areas and should be included in all future development plans.
The myriad of consequences, both short-term and long-term, some unintended, resulting from zoning and density decisions must be thoroughly and carefully evaluated as a part of the local planning review process for such decisions.
IV. Quality of Life
Guiding Principles:
Future planning and development should assure the availability of a range of choices in housing, employment, education, recreation, healthcare, and other essential services. Safe, secure circumstances to enjoy these opportunities are a fundamental requirement of all future planning.
Future local plans should consider and incorporate the need for school sites and facilities in conjunction with other development activity.
V. Infrastructure
Guiding Principles:
Meeting each community’s long-range needs for adequate essential infrastructure such as water, waste and waste water management, power, communications, and transportation systems as well as safety and public facilities, in a timely and responsible manner should be an essential objective of all future plans.
Future local planning efforts should encourage public and private organizations, working cooperatively, to efficiently and effectively develop and use community infrastructure and to develop methodologies that provide for the cost of this essential infrastructure to be borne equitably by all beneficiaries.
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