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Who They Are: Cochise County

Larry Saunders

Commissioner, District 3 · Planning and Zoning Commission, Cochise County

How
Appointed

What the office does

State law requires each county board to form a planning and zoning commission to consult with and advise it on planning, zoning and subdivision platting; the commission reports and makes recommendations on development matters. In a county with three supervisorial districts it has nine members, all qualified electors of the county: three appointed from each district by that district's supervisor, no more than one of the three living in an incorporated city or town. Members serve without pay, apart from reasonable travel expenses.

Under the county's zoning regulations, the commission is also the decision-making authority on special use applications like SU26-22: a majority vote approves, approves with conditions or denies, and the decision is final unless appealed to the Board of Supervisors, the county says.

Source: A.R.S. § 11-802; Cochise County, Data Centers.

In our reporting

Not yet named in a report.

See the whole chart: Cochise County.

Seat details: official page.

Who They Are was researched and written by Nicholas De Leon with Claude Opus 5.5 from the official pages, election canvasses, statutes and contracts linked on each chart; the reports naming each person are matched by code from What They Decided, and no model wrote any of it. Last updated 8:10 AM MST on November 12, 2026. Read more about how this is made.