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Please make plans to attend a special meeting with City Staff to voice your concerns about proposed revisions to the city’s General Plan that, if approved, will strip away many of the most important legal protections we currently have in guarding against unwanted and unneeded development in neighborhoods throughout the City.
Under the proposed revisions:
- Developers will have a much easier path for getting controversial projects, like the gas station at Pima and Dynamite, approved, because the concept of a major General Plan amendment is virtually eliminated.
- Neighborhood protections, provided by Character Areas like the Desert Foothills, are severely weakened.
- There is no vision of what the City will be and look like in the future, so we could easily be developed to look like Phoenix, without violating the plan.
State law requires that the General Plan be updated every ten years. Scottsdale voters will consider changes to our Plan in 2012, but the City Council will approve the changes this October. This means that most of the hearings will take place when many residents are away! This meeting is your opportunity to get the facts and voice your concerns about the draconian changes being proposed.
The meeting will be on Wednesday, April 6, 2011, beginning at 5:00 pm in the Appaloosa Library. Please mark your calendar and plan to attend.
Here is a link to the page on the city’s website where you can review the draft General Plan Update and proposed Major Amendment Criteria.
http://www.scottsdaleaz.gov/generalplan/update/2011draft |
