Pima County Administrator - azttca.org I-11_Presentation-082913.pdf · FUTURE INTERSTATE 11 International Trade and Transportation Corridor Presented by Chuck Huckelberry Pima County

FUTURE INTERSTATE 11 International Trade and Transportation Corridor

Presented by

Chuck Huckelberry Pima County Administrator

Infrastructure Investment Drives Economic Expansion

The Past

• Inland waterways: Erie Canal completed in 1825.

• First Transcontinental Railroad – completed in 1869.

• Arizona’s dams. Roosevelt Dam, completed in 1911, and Hoover Dam completed in 1936.

• Interstate highway system: Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956.

• The Information Highway (Internet). Worldwide Web goes public in 1991.

The Future

• An International Trade and Transportation Corridor

Mexico is an Emerging Economic Engine Driving Air, Rail and Truck Logistics

• $300 billion infrastructure investment over next 6 years

• Planned Port of Guaymas expansion

• 240 aerospace companies

• Mexican visitors spend $7.2 million per day in Arizona

• World’s leading exporter of tomatoes – $2.03 billion (2011)

• World’s leading exporter of beer – $2.02 billion (2011)

• Automotive, electronics and aircraft engines

• Growing Mexican middle class demand for goods

Canamex to Interstate 11 What’s Beyond the Interstate 11 Designation: Southern Arizona Connectivity

Source: ADOT 2013

Established 1995

IMPACTS • Right of Way , 2035 acres Ownership Acres %

State Trust 827 41

City, County and Federal

716

35

Private; mostly vacant agricultural

492

24

• Residential Structures 47

• Mitigation Obligation

4,964 acres to buffer public reserves and protect wildlife corridors

INTERMOUNTAIN WEST INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORTATION AND TRADE CORRIDOR: FUTURE INTERSTATE 11

ONE ALTERNATIVE WITH MEASURED IMPACT

LENGTHS IN PIMA COUNTY Future I-11 Option

1 to 2 = 56 miles Aerospace/Sonoran Corridor

21 miles Sahuarita to Mexico

47 miles

1

2

3

County Conservation Land System (CLS) Impacts and Mitigation

Designated Wildlife Corridors

Conservation Land Category

Acres

Percent

Mitigation Acres

Multiuse Management Area 1,003 49 2,006

Special Species Management Area 347 17 1,390

Biological Core Management Area 345 17 1,382

Agricultural Inholdings 170 8 0

Outside CLS 121 6 0

Important Riparian Area 47 2 187

Totals 2,035 100 4,964

Desired Alignment for the Southern Arizona Future Connectivity Segment of I-11

The I-19 and I-10 Connection: Aerospace/ Sonoran Corridor

Linking the region’s largest employers and facilitating an air, rail and truck logistics center

Why a new transportation and trade corridor?

Connect the Dots: $490 Million Already Invested in the Trade Corridor Extend Interstate 11 from Phoenix to Nogales

Recommendations

1. Fund and build State Route 189 – the Mariposa to I-19 connection.

2. Designate the Intermountain West Corridor from Nogales to Phoenix, through metro Tucson, as the anchor leg of a future Interstate 11.

3. The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) should designate a new state route along the Aerospace/Sonoran Corridor connecting I-19 to I-10 functioning as an auxiliary interstate highway.

4. Request that the Arizona Congressional delegation identify and fund the I-11 segment from Phoenix to Nogales, as well as the auxiliary interstate highway along the Aerospace/Sonoran Corridor connecting I-19 and I-10, in any future federal surface transportation legislation.

5. Support air, rail and surface transportation improvements to develop regional logistics services, including a second runway at Tucson International Airport and rail/freight interfaces at the Port of Tucson and Red Rock.