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Sedona City Limits 101 with Eddie Maddock

SedonaEye.com columnist Eddie Maddock

SedonaEye.com columnist Eddie Maddock

Sedona AZ (July 15, 2015)For those of you who aren’t aware of Sedona City Limits, here are the approximate locations:

Coming North on SR 179, there’s a City Limits sign shortly before the Little Horse Trail Head. It jogs west, then turns north to Back O’Beyond Road, turning west again to Oak Creek. From there the City Limits follows Oak Creek northeast to a point where it turns west to include Vortex Elev. 4686, the Sedona-Oak Creek Airport, Carroll Canyon Arch, and crosses Red Rock Loop Road slightly south of, but to include, Sedona Red Rock High School and Sedona Cultural Park. Entering Sedona from Cottonwood, the City Limits sign is located shortly before reaching the high school.

Going East, from the designated sign before Little Horse Trail, City Limits ends pretty much where the USFS land begins, bearing north and bordering the Munds Mountain Wilderness Area to slightly beyond Schnebly Hill Road where City Limits bears to the east, then again turns north to a point slightly beyond Midgley Bridge. From Midgley Bridge going west, City Limits remain within the section designated from Little Horse Trail to Coffee Pot Rock, jogging at that point slightly south, continuing west again, then south, then west, then north, ending a short distance after the Dry Creek Boynton Canyon road split. This jogging section is around the Secret Mountain Wilderness Area.

Sedona AZ

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In a nutshell, City Limits lies within the area from Back O’Beyond, Midgley Bridge, Boynton Canyon, and Sedona High School. Continuing South on Red Rock Loop Road, City Limits cuts eastward to connect with Oak Creek Canyon and follows the route to meet up with Back O’ Beyond, then south around Cathedral Rock, continuing east to the point of City Limits entry on SR 179.

The source of this information is provided on a map of Sedona, a product of J & H Publishing LTD, copyright 2011 edition.

Sedona City Limits is not to be confused with the Sedona Fire District or the Sedona-Oak Creek Unified School District which include the Village of Oak Creek, incorporated Sedona, and outlying areas extending to Sedona Pines, Red Rock Crossing, Lower Loop Road, Elmersville, and 86336 zip codes in Oak Creek Canyon beyond Midgley Bridge, as was confirmed by Jody with the Sedona Fire Department.

Sedona City Limits does NOT include all 86336 mailing addresses.

Similarly, the Village of Oak Creek, although identified as “Sedona, AZ” by mailing addresses, does NOT have 86336 zip codes, but clearly does not lie within Sedona City Limits.

Please keep in mind that the original intent for incorporated Sedona was to include the same areas as our School and Fire Districts, which would have in fact included the VOC, Red Rock Crossing, and areas north of Dry Creek and Boynton Canyon Roads. Voters in those areas did not want to be included in incorporated Sedona when the vote was taken, therefore the reason for their omission.

Why do members of the Sedona City Council insist on extending their jurisdiction with unnecessary involvement beyond Sedona City Limits? State law indicates their charge is within the designated boundaries.

Why do the Chamber of Commerce, a regional member driven special interest group, Sedona City Council, and Sedona City Staff have such a difficult time ascertaining the physical location of Chamber members and residents within this very precise designated area?

Get a map. Check it out. “It’s too difficult” is not a valid excuse and should be unacceptable.

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157 Comments

  1. Andrew & Sally says:

    With the increase of “day-trippers” (most likely caused by misappropriation of funding the chamber of commerce received from Sedona city taxes?) it’s highly important and vitally necessary for the RR Crossing to be reopened ASAP.

    Number one consideration of all elected representatives should remain health, safety, and welfare of those who voted them in. We deserve better than what has been displayed in the past. NO MORE FAVORED TREATMENT TO SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS! And that includes the Sedona Chamber of Commerce and their Lodging Council!

    Stop the nonsense. Restore Red Rock Crossing – whether or not the VOC officially ever becomes part of incorporated Sedona.

    It is a matter of not IF but WHEN a natural disaster will happen! Floods and forest fires head the list. Those who persist in avoiding the issue should be held personally libel in the event their ill chosen priorities continue to ignore this obvious necessity. Any failure to do so should result in a class action law suit.

    Translated: Sue the socks off them!

  2. I agree Villager says:

    What you say is all true, but bottom line the county has far more say about the crossing…..And we all know that eye sore of a hotel would never had looked like the one in VOC had Sedona building rules had been in place!

    All the county cares about is tax money,( not looks or zoning) maybe we can turn the bridge into a toll bridge and the county would be all in? lol

  3. Jim says:

    Jeeps cross that crossing and nobody needs government interference to make it passable I. Emergencies. This government sucks too. They’re brain dead in Washington and print money like it really exists. Local council uses same accountants. Local elected offices supporting Washington policies need the boot.

  4. Kindle says:

    Red rock crossing doesn’t need to be opened ever cause we don’t need or want to cater to out of Townees that don’t respect us and our environment and our dark sky mandates. We need Sedonans to get out that don’t honor it too. We arent a tourist town we’re a town overrun by tourists. Send them packing! Don’t destroy a rock ever.

  5. Villagers says:

    Before Sedona incorporated all streets and roads with the exception of the two state highways were under the jurisdiction of either Yavapai or Coconino Counties. After Sedona became a “city” all of those roads/streets became “city roads”.

    Therefore if VOC and/or the area of Red Rock Crossing were to annex into city limits Verde Valley School and Upper Red Rock Loop Roads would belong to the city of Sedona. And little doubt that would include “the crossing” @I Agree Villager.

    Yavapai County would thus be stripped of the controversial issue and how do you know that wouldn’t be a huge relief to them? In fact, they might jump with joy and even be willing to share in funding the restoration of a crossing considering the dire need for an alternate route in this area.

    Ya just never know . . .

  6. Marv, Sedona says:

    Why do people outside Sedona City Limits contact members of the city council and attempt to interfere with city policies and affairs? Why don’t they make a move to annex their area into the city and make their input legitimate?

    Furthermore, why do members of OUR city council even listen to them?

    In the early days after Sedona incorporated if a person spoke at council meetings and gave their name and address, we had at least one council member showing the integrity to call them out when their address was outside of city limits.

    Want to participate in Sedona City politics but don’t live within city limits? Then take action and annex your area. And don’t try to use the excuse of owning property here that you do NOT actually live in. So do the countless other people that invested in short term rentals and reside in California, Colorado, and elsewhere.

    Unless you actually live here and declare your residence is within City Limits and are a registered voter IN THE CITY, then back off with your unwanted input!

    Which reminds me of a meeting years ago in the VOC. Then Mayor Alan Everett set up a meeting in the Village of Oak Creek Clubhouse for the purpose of encouraging the VOC to annex and become a legitimate part of incorporated Sedona.

    Well guess what. In a standing-room audience the majority of those attending were shouting at him things like “go home” – “we do not want to be part of your incorporated area.”

    It’s never too late. If the demographics have changed drastically and the current population feels differently, then take action and legitimately and officially become a part of Incorporated Sedona. Take action to annex! Otherwise stop dictating to OUR elected officials and butt out.

    Thank you.

  7. JD, West Sedona says:

    Thank you @Marv, Sedona. Here’s another point to ponder. Why do OUR elected city council members, and that includes the mayor, even listen to outsiders? NOT THEIR JOB. And the same goes for city staff!

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