02 June 2023

Arizona limits construction around Phoenix as its water supply dwindles; Rose Law Group Founder and President Jordan Rose comments

What have we here -- Rose Law Group Founder and President Jordan Rose 
Here's a flashback to December 2019

Jordan Rose: In Real Estate We Trust > How-To-Turn Land Holdings Into Pay-Dirt

Here's Jordan Rose - a feature in one of today's posts that covers a lot of territory all about real estate development. In particular it's about one pending project in Southeast Mesa named Hawes Crossing.
If you're wondering what Jordan Rose does, she tells you herself in less-than-a-minute is a streaming video uploaded to YouTube last year . . . "she [and The Rose Law Group] gets governments to do of not to do something. . ."
Vague enough. . .QUESTION: What's that something?
And how does her law group get all the goodie$ delivered?
Here's just the most recent media report by Jim Walsh that tells you what that "something" is all about:
Millions of dollars ride on E. Mesa vote        
By Jim Walsh, Tribune Staff Writer
East Valley Tribune | 2019-12-15T01:00:00-07:00
"After months of public meetings, the massive Hawes Crossing development is heading toward a vote by the Mesa City Council in January, with only one member opposing it and millions of dollars riding on the decision. . . "

WHO IS JORDAN ROSE? Let her tell you herself >
She says personally she gets governments to do or not to do something
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Arizona limits construction around Phoenix as its water supply dwindles; Rose Law Group Founder and President Jordan Rose comments

Arizona limits construction around Phoenix as its water supply dwindles; 


By Christopher Flavelle, Jack Healy | New York Times

Arizona has determined that there is not enough groundwater for all of the future housing construction that has already been approved in the Phoenix area, and will stop developers from building some new subdivisions, a sign of looming trouble in the West and other places where overuse, drought and climate change are straining water supplies.

The decision by state officials marks the beginning of the end to the explosive development that has made the Phoenix metropolitan region the fastest growing in the country.

Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix and its suburbs, gets more than half its water supply from groundwater; most of the rest comes from rivers and aqueducts as well as recycled wastewater. In practical terms, groundwater is a finite resource; it can take thousands of years or longer to be replenished.


The announcement of a groundwater shortage — what the state calls “unmet demand” for water over the next hundred years — means Arizona would no longer give developers in areas of Maricopa County new permits to construct homes that rely on wells for water.

Phoenix and nearby large cities, which must obtain separate permission from state officials for their development plans every 10 to 15 years, would also be denied approval for any homes that rely on groundwater beyond what the state has already authorized.

The decision means cities and developers must look for alternative sources of water to support future development — for example, by trying to buy access to river water from farmers or Native American tribes, many of whom are facing their own shortages. That rush to buy water is likely to rattle the real estate market in Arizona, making homes more expensive and threatening the relatively low housing costs that had made the region a magnet for people from across the country.

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“It’s important to remember this does not affect industrial development and there are still hundreds of thousands of lots in central Arizona that can be developed without any water challenges. We have enough supply for some time, until we solve this problem for good through technological advance.” 

– Jordan Rose, Rose Law Group founder and president 

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We just need to prioritize demand

Opinion: An alarming prediction about Pinal County facing a water shortage is a myth that’s based on outdated assumptions and incomplete data.
By Jordan Rose and Tom Galvin, opinion contributors | azcentral
Mark Twain once wrote of his difficulty with math by ascribing a quote about the flexible power of numbers to British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
Farmers, developers, landowners, residents and elected officials in Pinal County are now empathetic with Twain because we are trying to dispel a growing notion that Pinal County is out of groundwater.”
The Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR) is working on revising a model based on outdated assumptions and incomplete data that have perpetuated the myth that Pinal County is facing a water shortage. In fact, Pinal County has plenty of water for today, tomorrow and 100 years from now.
Farmers and cities are good stewards
The agricultural and municipal sectors rely on substantial and robust aquifers and are responsible stewards of water for today’s needs and for future demand.
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FROM JULY 2019
Dairy farmers and State Land work together to plan vibrant mixed-use Mesa community,

Jordan Rose and dairyman Jim Boyle, Jr. talk to Phoenix Business Journal about Hawes Crossing project
Posted by   /  July 12, 2019
Homebuilder’s eye state land for growth
By Angela Gonzales | Phoenix Business Journal
No group may have a more intimate view of the struggle to develop homes and businesses using Arizona-owned land than dairy farmer Jim Boyle Jr. and his cows.
Boyle is among a group of dairy farmers in Mesa working to transform their property into a 1,200-acre master-planned community — a process that’s taking years to accomplish.
The path isn’t getting easier. Of the 1,200 acres the farmers plan for the development, about half are state land, said Jordan Rose, zoning attorney with Rose Law Group, who is working with Boyle and the other dairy farmers to get their property and the adjacent state land rezoned.
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