You put enough restrictions on it and people leave. Bagwell said the growth plans could be amended at any time during the 10 years to accommodate more growth. You can change them after one year, two years, five years . . . Gordon's study assumes that all new construction would cease in the second year after approval of Proposition 202 and then come back very slowly. There is no moratorium on new construction in the initiative.
Construction can continue on land that already has been zoned.
But until voters in a community adopt a growth plans, rezonings would require a four-fifths vote of a city council or county board of supervisors. Capitol Media Services reporter Howard Fischer contributed to this story. About three dozen candidates for the Legislature were omitted from a booklet sent to Arizona voters, prompting the possibility of a lawsuit. He said only the 181 candidates who did respond are listed. Shaffer said the commission has done nothing wrong.