Interview with Grady Gammage - Central Arizona Project

There’s really two. There’s “Growing Smarter” and there’s “Growing Smarter
Plus” because it was done over a period of time. But we’ve revised our statues a
bunch about growth.
Q. There’s been other legislation more recently trying to reform how the State Land
A. Right.
is sold and regulated.
Q. Do you think there will be future . . .
A. Yeah. It’ll come back around again. I think it will be less aggressive next time. I
was strongly in favor of Prop 106 in this last election. It was too complicated and
people weren’t willing to do it. Now the other thing I’m talking about is Prop 207
which passed which I thought was extraordinarily misguided and says that, says
we have to compensate people if we put any new regulation on their land use.
Well, if you’re serious about a relationship between water and growth and need
to manage those kinds of things on into the future, I’m concerned that Prop 207
may limit our hands in terms of what we can do about water conservation
measures in the future. There’s certainly an argument and nobody knows
exactly what its impact is. I just wrote a chapter in this book for the Arizona Town
Hall that’s coming up on land use about Prop 207.
Interview with Grady Gammage
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