By Kaila White | The Arizona Republic
A new library in Glendale; expansion of a water-treatment plant in Scottsdale; Avondale’s trail system and a fire-training facility in Gilbert. All have become victims of recent changes in state funding laws.
Across the Valley, big plans for new city projects — some going back more than a decade — are being shelved and stripped out of budgets as officials lose money they had earmarked to pay for them.
Glendale has stopped any progress on a new municipal court.
Legislation that passed in 2011, and which went into full effect in August, changed the way cities collect what are known as development-impact fees from builders and developers and redefined what they can build with that money.
