THE REPORT OF AN INTERNSHIP IN URBAN PLANNING AS PERFORMED AT THE PIMA COUNTY PLANNING DEPARTMENT TUCSON, ARIZONA, JUNE 15, 1965 TO SEPTEMBER 15, 1965 Item Type text; Internship Report-Reproduction (electronic) Authors Lusteck, Joseph Anton Jr. Publisher The University of Arizona. Rights Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author. Download date 30/09/2021 06:48:49 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10150/555393 THE REPORT OF AN INTERNSHIP IN IZZMi FWHNING AS PERFORMED AT TIE Pim COUHTY PLAtEMHO DEPARTHEtn* TUCSON, ARIZONA, JUNE 15, 1965 to SEPTEMBER 15, 1965 by JOSEPH ANTON LUSTECK, JR. An Internship Report Submitted to the COMMITTEE ON URBAN PLANNING . , In Bor+lol Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE In the Graduate College THE UNIVERSITY Of ARIZONA 1966 Approved: Date:_ Director of Internship STATS::;ir cv Aurim This Internship report has been submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements fer an advanced-doorco c t the University of Arizona and Is deposited with tiio Committee on Urban Planning to bo node- evollcblo to borrowers under applicable conditions to be set by them. DrIof quotations from this report ere allowable without special permission, provided that accurate ccunowlcdrcmant .of scarce is made. Requests fer permission fer extended quotation of portions of this manuscript ray be rranted by the cl*Imam of. the Committee on Urban Planning when in his judgement the propoeed uso of the meterloI is in the interest of scholarship. In oil other cases, however, this permission must be obtained from the author. SIGNED; Joseph A. Lusteck, J r. A0Kt:0::LE35r'HLT The author vlshca to express his appreciation to tho Pirn County Docrd of Supervisors for providing-tho opportunity to carry cut this Internship In tho office of tho Pins County Planning Dopertnont end to tho staff of that'deportment, especially John S. Tsaguris, Planning Director and Alex R. Garcia, Assistant Planning Director, for tiioir supervision end helpful suggestions during tho internship period, in addition. Dr. Andrew U. tJiison, Chairman of tho Ccmltlco cm Urban Planning, deserves special mention for hie guidance In the- preparation of this internship and throughout the intern’s college education. Finally, tho Intern wishes to thank his wife. Happy, for her encouragement end for tho many hours of secretarial assistance given to tho preparation of this report. Ill FURPC-SE The purpose of this report is to present on account of the author's activities and observations during a three month period of employment in tha office of the Plcn County Planning Department as an - Internship In Urban Planning. Tho report will bo presented in four parts. Pert one will contain historical background. Included In th is sect Ion will be s brief historical sketch of -Plm County- Arizona, o historical description of the development of the organization of Pima County and an account of the evolution of planning for its growth and development as a function of government. The section will Include on explanation of-county organization for planning and the orgcmlzation of tho County Planning Department along with the intern's ccnnsnts Thereon. Part Two will be a description of Tho intern's assignments and duties during tho three month period. It will contain an account of the Planned Unit Development Study as an example of tho work performed. Observations made during this period will be reported. Part throe will contain The intern's evaluation of the Internship particularly emphasising consideration of tho Planned Unit Development Study. Comments will ciso be rede upon the organization and methods used in carrying exit the study. Tho appendix will contain s copy of the study, ’’Planned Unit Development, Part 2, Local Application”, which the intern was assigned to proporo during tho internship period. Iv TABLE CF co-.TErrrs Paoo Stataw nt by Author - ■ ■ " . •' II •Aeknotflcdgnon-r • ; ill ■Purpcao , . ; . Iv Tablo of Ccntcntc _ v Lint of Tables vl List of iI lustrations vl I Historical Background of Pine County I Organization 8 County Organization for Planning 15 Description of the Internship 37 Evaluation of the Internship 40 Selected Bib!Iography 50 Appendix, "Planned Unit Development,Pert 11, Local ApplIcotlon" 50 v UST CF TACLCj Poga Teble I, Number of State and Local Govcrn::.cntoI Units 12 Table 2* Planning Coporhsont Personnel 53 Table 3» Comperetlve Personnel Ratios . 54 Table 4, Education of Professional Planning Staff 54 vi LIST Or iLLU31P»AT3C:,!3 : Peso Figure' I, Orronlzotlcml Chert, Pine County, 1020 : II Figure 2, Crgontza-Mcnal Chert, Pine County, 1053 14 Figure 3, Functional OrganIzotlcnal Chert, Pirn County Planning Department 35 Figure 4, Personnel Organizational Chart, Fima County 'Planning Department • 35 vii HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF PIMA COUNTY PlrnD County v;os ono of tho four original counties Into which the territory of Arizona was divided In l£G4, ito boundaries were then cot as follows: "On tho cast by the 109th meridiem of lemgltudo, on the line of the territory of New Mexico, on the north by tho middle of the main branch of tho Gila River, on tho west by tho line of II3°20* west I longitude, end on the couth by the Sonora lino." The lands described above were acquired by Spain through dtewvery and exploration In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and by occupa­ tion In the eighteenth and nineteenth. They become pert of Mexico in IG2I by tho Mexican tier of Independence with Spain, end were rode part of the United States through tho Gadsden Purchase from Mexico which was proclaimed In 1894. Plro County Included all of Arizona south of the Gilo River, 2 north of tho Mexican boundary and east of Yura County. This crca Is nearly all of tho Gadsden Purchase. The City of Tucson has oIways been the County Scat. Previous to 1054 most of Pima County, as originally termed, and all of tho County, as It ncv.' exists, had been port of PJmerle 3 Alta, the northern portion of Sonora under Spain and Mexico. Tucson was 1. Horry L. Hopkins, Administrator, Inventory of tho County Archives of Arizona. No. 10, Pima County; Phoenix, Arizona: Works Progress Administration, July, 1938. p. 3. 2. Jbl<L. % M d . I a proaldlo on tho Apacho frontier end tho principal cottlcniont, above the present Sonora lino, in Finerla Alto. No non-lndlon settlements ere known to have existed prior to 1054 In what Is now Arizona north of tho 81 la River, or boyond Plncrle Alt®. Th® region was named for the Pina Indians native to It and Pina County’s name too tho sarao origin. Tho none Tucson Is derived from the PInan "Sluyk-son" which means dork or 4 brown spring. DeMIzs explored Pima County In about 1540. Coronado and his army crossed It In 1540. A century and a half later tho Jesuit, Father Kle®, extended his explorations and tho mission field from Finerla Baja north­ ward to tho Oil®, making his first ontrada across tho modern Sonora lino In 1691. In 1692 Kino addressed 800 Sobaipari Indians end baptized sons of their children at a largo rancher Io which ho named Son Xavier dot Bee. In the vaclnlty of this rancherIa. Kino laid tho foundations of tho noted mission of the same nan© In 1700, Son Xavier del Bac, nine miles from Tucson, received Its f ir s t permanent missionary In 1701, and became tho 5 greatest mission In what Is now Arizona. It Is maintained to this day by the Franciscan Order. For protection against the Indians, a presidio was established a t Tubac In 1752, which was moved about 1776 sene fifty miles north to 6 tho Puebllto do San Augustin do I Tucson on the Santa Cruz River. Tho 4. Jack Cross, Elizabeth Shaw end Kathleen Scholflol, Arizona. Its People and Resources. Tucson, Arizona: The University of Arizona Press, I960, p. 74. 5. Hopkins, on. c l t ., p. 4. 6. Ibid. 5 presidio VS5.lotcr. moved c short distance, to the site where the court­ house in Tucscn now stands, end there an edebe pueblo and church end a wall twelve feet high with towers end firing platforms for defense were b u ilt, Spanish rule was overthrown by Ivowlco in 102! end by IC4G Mexico was et war with the United States ever their northern possessions. After the conquest of Mew Mexico, Lieutenant Colonel Coehe of the Moreen Dotal I ion . 7 leek Tucscn in December, IC40 driving the Mexicans from the presidio. After the Gadsden Purchase was red!fled by Congress Dona Ana County was 8 attached to the Mow Mexico Territory. Military possession of this terri­ tory ves effected by the United States on March 10, 1050 by stationing four companies of Dragoons In Tucscn. I# 1850-ICOO the B utterfield Overland Stage Route passed through Tucscn which contributed to the Increase; of the American population to several thousand. Initial settlers wore dissatisfied with being joined to distant Mot; Mexico which resulted in a convention in 1056 a t Tucson which rxaoriollaed Congress fer organisation of the territory of Arizona end elected o delegate to Congress, 9 Who was not seated. A subsequent convention hold in IEGO at Tucson formed e provisional government to exist until the Territory of Arizona was created end a constitution and laws adopted and officials elected. Judicial districts and counties were laid out. The proceedings of th is convention 'were printed at Tucson end ere the first public document of this type printed In what is today Arizona.