Assigned to TAT AS PASSED BY COMMITTEE
ARIZONA STATE SENATE
Fifty-Sixth Legislature, First Regular Session
AMENDED
FACT SHEET FOR S.B. 1313
general plan; transportation; independent study
Purpose
Prohibits a general plan from including policies or projects that reduce overall system
capacity for motor vehicle traffic and modifies the required elements of a general plan, as outlined.
Background
Each planning agency and governing body of each municipality must adopt a
comprehensive, long-range general plan for the development of the municipality. The general plan
must consist of a statement of community goals and development policies and include land-use
and circulation elements.
For a city or town with a population greater than 2,500 persons but less than 10,000 persons
and whose population growth rate exceeded an average of two percent per year for a 10-year period
and for a city or town with a population of 10,000 or more persons, the general plan must, and for
other cities and towns the general plan may, include open space, growth area, environmental
planning, cost of development and water resources elements.
For a city with a population of 50,000 persons or more, the general plan must, and for a
city with a population of less than 50,000 persons the general plan may, include conservation,
recreational, circulation, public services and facilities, public buildings, housing, safety, bicycle,
energy, neighborhood preservation and revitalization, and conservation, rehabilitation and
redevelopment elements (A.R.S. § 9-461.05).
There is no anticipated fiscal impact to the state General Fund associated with this
legislation.
Provisions
1. Prohibits a general plan from including transportation or land-use policies or projects that
reduce overall system capacity of motor vehicle traffic.
2. Requires a municipality, if the general plan includes a reduction in the level of service of any
arterial street, to conduct an independent study on the impact on emergency vehicle response
times.
3. Specifies that a reduction in the level of service of any arterial street includes reducing the
speed or capacity of the arterial street. FACT SHEET – Amended
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4. Removes specifically identifying those areas, if any, that are particularly suitable for planned
multimodal transportation from the growth area element of the general plan for a city or town
with a population:
a) greater than 2,500 persons but less than 10,000 persons and whose population growth rate
exceeded an average of two percent per year for a 10-year period; and
b) of 10,000 or more persons.
5. Removes, from the required components of the general plan for a city or town with a population
greater than 50,000 persons, a bicycle element consisting of proposed bicycle routes, bicycle
parking areas and designated bicycle street crossing areas.
6. Makes technical and conforming changes.
7. Becomes effective on the general effective date.
Amendments Adopted by Committee
• Removes an adverse impact on emergency vehicle response times from the prohibited
transportation or land-use policies of a general plan.
Senate Action
TAT 2/13/23 DPA 4-3-0
Prepared by Senate Research
February 14, 2023
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