Last Friday (10/24) there was a letter in my mailbox, hand addressed and properly postmarked. However, two inches had been chopped off the left end thereby eliminating a return address as well as two inches from the right hand side of the two sided letter enclosed, thus making it difficult to clearly interpret the message although the gist was well defined.

The subject was “Draft New Community Plan” and throughout what I was able to read reference was made to “LAND USE ACTION PLAN” and development by the City Attorney of a “brand new bag of Property Acquisition tools.”

There appears to be a plea to advise property owners to pay attention to what will soon be a finalized production of the proposed “New Community Plan” which will go before voters in March of next year.

This very afternoon, Wednesday, October 30th, at 3:00 PM in Council Chambers, the “Special Business” at hand is “Public hearing/discussion regarding the October 2013 Draft New Sedona Community Plan as forwarded by the Planning and Zoning Commission.” It will be aired on Cable Channel 4.

The contents of the letter I received further cautioned that P & Z now has other plans for those “PLAN” designated properties and refers to the new tools in motion as “a blank check to acquire Private Property Development Rights.”

Because of the “missing text” my report here is sketchy at best but IMO well worth sharing especially in light of the article under which this comment is posted.

Please property owners, residential and commercial, pay heed to what is before us. Sedona has seen many changes since incorporation but from what little I’m able to ascertain from this letter it may very well only be a drop in the bucket of things yet to happen.

When I took the letter to the Post Office the Postmistress wasn’t available but one of the clerks made a copy of the envelope and torn up contents and I had already offered the date it was received.

Although the sender remains unidentified apparently due to damage caused by the mailing process, this is an opportunity to express my appreciation for having received a very abbreviated (due to missing contents) of a message that appears to obviously be critical to the residents and property owners of incorporated Sedona.

Eddie S. Maddock