SedonaEye.com columnist Eddie S. Maddock addresses city of Sedona polls and whether those surveys will have impact and value.
Sedona AZ – Results of city of Sedona’s most recent survey in conjunction with 2024 budget planning were recently released. Sedona claims a population of 9,684 residents, 682 (7.0425%) of whom responded to the city survey.
Considering only the first twelve on the lengthy list offered in the City report, in order of importance, maintaining “Open Space” was at the top: Other options did not come close to matching even half the passion displayed for the desire to pursue vacant land conservation!
Following Open Space as No. 1, they are in order of importance:
Workforce Housing;
Parks & Recreation;
Indoor Recreation Center;
Cottage Communities;
Neighborhood Commercial Facilities;
RV Park or Campground (to serve local or seasonal workforce);
Art Museum;
Business Space for Economic Diversification (office space, low impact manufacturing/production, etc.);
Conference Center;
Homeless Shelter;
“Other.”
Clearly the hot topic of the future of the Cultural Park by preserving its open space remains the overwhelming preferred option with multi-family reasonably priced rentals a lukewarm consideration.
The choice of “other” options for the Cultural Park included 33% preferring restoration of the original use for which the property was acquired – its restoration as a venue for arts and music.
“No” to subdivision road connections prevailed, and ongoing and obvious excessive traffic conditions maintained high ranking on the list of polled complaints.
Along with Open Space, Oak Creek preservation remained important for receiving city funding.
And the idea of electric vehicles and related accommodations ranked last.
As for “housing for the homeless,” the unanswered question of why beggars hang out on street corners when “Help Wanted” signs are posted on so many businesses, remains a mystery.
Also in the report, isn’t it somewhat curious why the mention of the vast city owned acreage in the vicinity of the waste water treatment plant never arises during these efforts to allegedly “find solutions to the ongoing and unanswered problem of reasonably priced workforce housing?”
“Many people often use the word survey to refer to a questionnaire, but it also refers to the entire process of conducting market research by gathering and analyzing data. Poll, however, has a much narrower and more specific definition. It simply means a study in which you ask people their opinions. To be clear, a poll is a type of survey, but not all surveys are polls.”
But let us not forget perhaps the most familiar definition of the term “poll”: “The place where votes are cast or recorded – usually used in plural (at the polls); a counting of votes cast.”
Now here is the Big Question: How will the City Council interpret the results of their own recent survey? By addressing the will of the majority or displaying perceived impropriety by continuing to pursue high density development of the Cultural Park and make other decisions based what they think is best? But that’s their option leaving the voters with really only one safe passage: Vote at the city election polls where it counts. At least we hope – but nowadays even that process is under scrutiny!
To view the city of Sedona poll on its website, click here. Be sure to read poll respondents written comments below the graph.
Thank God for social media. Good old and no brainer Biden is in the basement with Kamala holding the key to his straight jacket while MSNBC NYT FB busy recreating Harris ignorance into AI liar not Lmao
Left wingers saying JD Vance wants more white children after saying childless women pushing low population agendas have political and personal biases is proof of left wing extremism and racism and weirdness – JD Vance’s children are biracial you creepy cat women
she can run but she can’t hide from past bc her real track record hurts every peraon bc never friend of persons of color
So let me get this straight. Your upset with her because she was prosecuting the laws of her state? Damn thats odd, would you be more upset if she didnt do her job? I dont understand this place…Either blatant lies, stupid statements or just bigots being racists? Hey that on you and your creator, best of luck! lol
People are blaming Fed when it’s Bidenomics and Biden administration new and old wars. Market crashing and it’s not Fed fault, it’s Biden Harris policies. Own it Democrats. Keep calm and know you’re losing a lot now. Elect Trump to get it back. That’s my survey and that’s my poll. If you believe Democrats policies in the past you better smarten up for the future and know Harvard economic policies stink. My advice is Trump to your alumnae dollars until universities change lightbulbs in admin offices and work for capitalism. Socialism increases inequality and your portfolios are reflecting that fact.
So your smarter then stick analyst I guess… I guess your another Trump believer.. guess what you and Trump going down
Harris raising and now beating Trump various nationwide polls.. what lies you gonna make up now ring kissers… your to stupid and racist to even visualize Trump’s gonna lose
This is how Ive come to see from reading and listening and hearing people talk and emails and news and meetings. Kind of based on SF and LA California friends and family and listening to what is said or shown or known there indirectly, what’s it about except good lives? Have Heard that VP Harris followed or follows quietly her mother’s India religion like her sister anyone know if any truth there? Have heard Powerful academic and politicos and others advised her to join a black church with great political force when she moved back to California years after her mother removed them from America to Canada for an India-expat community to get a better life with no poor or her father around or bad schools. She went to local Canadian schools and finally two years at Canadian college before going to DC to “rediscover” her black side maybe? Have heard her father had no influence on her until then, and she follows his communist ideology to make him like her which he doesn’t, as he needs to overcompensate for his own slave holding Jamaican background? Lots of gossip there no wonder webs of psychosis in that White House, eh? If the Democrats want to throw sticks and stones at JD Vance, an American success story of poverty to cum laud Yale that includes his beautiful wife cum laud and children (her parents came from India also and raised their daughter who excelled at Yale and is a personal success like JD)? The difference between Ms. Harris and Ms. Vance is intelligence, Ms. Vance is by far most intelligent (Ms. Harris failed her bar exam the first time) and Ms. Vance is a professional who has three young children like a young Jackie Kennedy and also a career that shows her ability to emphasize and articulate dreams for her future like JD Vance. Finally a beautiful intelligent woman with true brains and children in the White House, eh? The fact the Vance’s are married prove how fantastic they are as individuals because they will not allow others to define them as victims of racism or sexism or discrimination.
JD Vance family to Kamala Harris family is a no brainer preference with Harris’ anti America and Vance’s pro America lifestyles.
Have heard of a need for new blood for VP in White House and not old has been climbers with no real sense of American history and culture of exceptionalism.
That’s my European take on what America has forgotten is we envy its history to save the world for the better. The rest of the world would still be colonized without American independence and exceptionalism. Students learn and grow your history of being proud.
Revere free speech advocates. If I’m wrong about the above, in America unlike my country, it will be subjected to critical scrutiny.
lot to comprehend. will give effort
Food prices up over 40% in California under Biden Harris Newsom administration and they won’t carry Cali votes and he would’ve lost it for sure.
CAL not stupids, taxes out of control and crime and homelessness targeting poor and middle class Californians, Cities dirty, Beaches filthy, neighborhoods unsafe, machetes in hands of babies, schools don’t teach, cars and roads don’t work, electricity doesn’t turn on, Hollywood sucks, Disneyland overrun with perverts, people dying from drugs and gang violence, tourism and taxpayers fled the state.
Universities spew hate and lies and allow radicalization of students by not countering lies with truth.
Time to bring back morals and virtues and principles and clean up California social psychos messes.
SNOOZE….
Survey said Joe shafted by Harris
#hashtagharris
Pelosi says she wants Joe on Mt. Rushmore is same Pelosi last year that wanted Mt. Rushmore torn down because Washington and Lincoln are on it? Nancy No Morals.
Far leftist Kamunism aided by the new Chinaboy Wallz is front and center at the DNC don’t count on my views or vote. Harris voted to Raise Taxes on the poor and middle class tips with Democrat Senate voting yes and Republicans voting no. Most majority too dumb to know it, and pretend the problem is somebody else doing it is schoolyard behavior. Get out of the sandbox fools. Joe and Kamala raised your taxes not the rich and you better genuflect because the rich pay for your benefits. Soon they’ll take more.