Visualizing Regional Growth

Maricopa Association of Governments

The Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG) partnered with the Urban Land Institute in a regional growth visioning exercise entitled AZ One: A Reality Check for Central Arizona. In the exercise, over 300 participants used Lego blocks to represent the growth of the region by an additional six million people and three million jobs. Legos represented new housing and employment. Maps used by exercise participants in the AZ One event were created by MAG.

The map depicts planned and existing transportation infrastructure, airport noise contours, and existing land use. MAG produced the existing land-use data, which was integrated with similar data produced by the Central Arizona Association of Governments and updated with land divestment information from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. State Trust land was added as an overlay, indicating areas potentially available for development.

Courtesy of Maricopa Association of Governments.

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