Update: Summary of Scottsdale Planning Commission Outpost Meeting, October 28th
By Cindy Lee I attended with interest the two Open Houses and two Scottsdale Planning Commission meetings on The Outpost proposal to place a commercial planned neighborhood center designed by Vern Swaback Partners into a rural neighborhoods site at the northwest corner of Pima Road and Dynamite Boulevard. I listened with open mind to what was communicated by all parties involved: the applicants, Scottsdale citizens, City Planning...
Save the Desert Foothills Scenic Drive: Do you see red?
By Cindy Lee AZ State Land Department (ASLD) has a proposal, Case 19-ZN-2014, to shift 40 acres of commercial rezoning plus 26 acres of resort/tourism rezoning from a Suburban Neighborhood location into state trust land zoned Residential Rural Neighborhood on the east side of N. Scottsdale Road between Happy Valley and Jomax Roads. This transfer is stated to be consistent with the City of Scottsdale General Plan (GP) 2001 ratified by...
Save Scenic Drive: Stay True to Scottsdale General Plan & Character Area Plan
By Cindy Lee AZ State Land Department has a proposal to transfer 40 acres of commercial rezoning and 26 acres of resort/tourism rezoning into state trust land on the east side of N. Scottsdale Road between Happy Valley and Jomax Roads. This land is currently zoned Residential Rural Neighborhood. It is also the location of the Scenic Drive Exhibit area. The state claims the land use rezoning is consistent with the 2001 General Plan...
Sneak Peeks: Commercial Development Moving Into Desert Foothills Scenic Drive?
By Cindy Lee In 2015 a new shopping center anchored by Sprouts opened on the east side of Scottsdale Road at the south corner of Pinnacle Peak Road. This shopping center represents 17 acres of new commercial development just 1 mile south of the entrance to the Scenic Drive in North Scottsdale. Scottsdale’s Desert Foothills Scenic Drive is a 6.2 mile scenic stretch on N. Scottsdale Road from Happy Valley Road continuing...
Save the Scenic Drive: What Scottsdale Voters are Saying
By Cindy Lee A Scottsdale homeowner new to the neighborhood—husband, and father of a young family—wrote to express how he feels about the proposed up-zoning change to the Desert Foothills Scenic Drive area along the east side of Scottsdale Road between Happy Valley and Jomax Roads. The proposed change would switch 26 acres of resort/tourism zoning and 40 acres of commercial zoning into the Scenic Drive area that was zoned...
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