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The links below are for PDF files of various comparative documents showing costs for various services across the communities of the Verde Valley.

 

 

Comparative Development Resource Guide

Introduction to the VVREO Comparative Development Costs Resource Guide

 

Communities like those of the beautiful Verde Valley in central Arizona recognize that confronting common challenges and achieving shared goals happens more quickly, more comprehensively, and often only if we work together regionally. Fostering the policies, procedures, and practices that encourage the retention, expansion, and attraction of job creating yet compatible industries, while respecting each community's uniqueness and self-determination, is a goal of a successful regional economic organization. Equally important in achieving this goal is to consider the information required by the decision makers within potential companies.

ProfessionalsThe Verde Valley Regional Economic Organization (VVREO) recognizes that site selectors, once they have conducted their internal self-examination and have decided to expand, relocate, or both, want to know whether or not our greater community affords them an environment that is conducive for success. Every company has its own unique mixture of priorities to be compared against the qualities a community or region has to offer. To some degree that mixture will include important resources such as access to markets and raw materials, transportation to and from those markets and suppliers, the availability of needed talent and a trained or trainable workforce, and the educational institutions to produce them.

That mix will include the availability of land and the infrastructure supporting People at computerselectric power, natural gas, water, waste water, and communications. It may include a favorable tax structure and offer of incentives. And, it will include that difficult to define, but very important quality of life. How are the schools? What is the proximity to medical services? What is the availability of housing amenable to the CEO and affordable to the hourly worker? Is it a safe place to live and can my employees ride a bus to work if they need or want to? What can I do to relax and enjoy that very important leisure time and does the climate allow me to do those activities? Every company's internal self-examination will produce their own unique assessment of the level of importance of these very important criteria.

VVREO understands the importance of the site selection process to a company's success. The organization understands, too, the importance of accurate up-to-date information for that process. Our goal in conducting this survey and gathering this information has been multi-fold. We have provided comparative snap shots of information with Internet links to their source for expanded research and comprehensive comparisons of the Verde Valley communities. We have gathered the links and sources into a centralized set of documents to save the site selectors' time and encourage a good strong look at our communities and region.

Construction siteThis section on Comparative Development Costs employs fourteen Excel spreadsheets that work in concert with the profiles on individual communities both incorporated and unincorporated in the Verde Valley. Each spreadsheet explores site development topics that range from permitting requirement and steps, through how permitting costs are determined, project valuation tables, water and waste water hook-up and usage tariffs, development impact fees, and incentives. Where necessary, each topic is separated into single family residential, multi-family residential, commercial, and industrial. Specific information is provided where possible. Where more practical, links to pdf documents and web-sites are provided to allow the reader to have quick access to information that cannot be conveyed easily or accurately in a spreadsheet format. Each spreadsheet is designed to allow use with direct Internet access or to be printed with supported pdf documents if the user prefers.

The community profiles provide basic information on the individual areas with links to sources of information that provide answers to important site selection questions beyond development costs between communities. Information on demographics, crime rates, school systems, educational institutions, medical care, weather, utility companies, and much more is available through links to sites that update this information on a regular basis. The map included with each profile shows land use in that area and includes a legend to allow easy identification of use by the reader. Each profile includes links to that community's municipal government and Chamber of Commerce sites; plus charts and links to property tax, sales tax, and use tax for that community. Additional links provide a glimpse into the character and experience of the community that round out the readers' tour. Finally, links to the support documents of the Comparative Development Cost spreadsheets are available for easy download and printing.

The board of directors and members of the Verde Valley Regional Economic Organization invite you to explore the communities of the Verde Valley as your site selection process seeks to weigh the many variables that will contribute to your successful endeavors. VVREO seeks to provide to you the comprehensive economic development expertise, tools, marketing, and outreach needed. Please consider us your partner as you consider the Verde Valley.

Sincerely,

Robyn Prudhomme-Bauer, Chairman
Verde Valley Regional Economic Organization

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The links below are for PDF files of various comparative documents showing costs for various services across the communities of the Verde Valley.