Comments on: Home Rule Meeting at Sedona Rouge

By: Braza Nojyani

Braza Nojyani — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 02:22:54 +0000

$800 rental employee on View when $1500 mo mortgage paid?
$$tell me where tax books compensate urself$$

By: Liz

Liz — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 21:19:08 +0000

The only thing you have to do for power is to convince someone else that they don’t have any.
Everything else is easy.

By: Tony Tonsich

Tony Tonsich — Sun, 22 Apr 2018 22:45:10 +0000

To paraphrase George Bernard Shaw, ” Some see Sedona as it is and ask why, I see Sedona as it could be and ask why not?”

Traffic does not have to be our destiny. Sedona can once again be the highest valued property in Arizona as it was in the past. We can change our path from bumper to bumper tourist trap to resident and tourist paradise.

I’m for :

Residents first
Don’t pave paradise, stop advertising for more tourists.
End excessive spending and no bid contracts.

I’m running for mayor. It’s your choice.

By: senile Steve segner

senile Steve segner — Sun, 22 Apr 2018 21:40:34 +0000

@ senile steve Segner, no matter how many times he is told how waste and expenses, including funds to the chamber will be cut he still can’t remember. He knows for a fact the billboards paid by the Sedona Chamber in Phoenix and Tucson never bring in a day tripper. He knows when ever someone sees a billboard they drop what they planned and drive up to Sedona immediately. They would never make a day trip on a weekend. Segner thinks commuters would deliberately drive into a traffic jam on their regular commute. Sure senile Steve. What do you expect for someone who does not use capital letters for his name. There is a funny thing about facts, they stand on their own. Read the traffic study for yourself, before they hide it.

poor poor senile Steve segner. He should go work on one of his many homes.

Ignore all the idiots. Look at the traffic study for yourself. You paid for it.

By: Richard Saunders

Richard Saunders — Sun, 22 Apr 2018 17:14:05 +0000

Thanks Tony T for once again being the “smartest man in the world” while being the biggest moron in Sedona….

Keep up the small minded thinking and fact twisting!!!

By: steve Segner

steve Segner — Sun, 22 Apr 2018 16:13:50 +0000

Tony, Look at appendix D. The study pinged every cell phone passing through
Yes, Tony and if you went to any traffic meeting you would know they go to flagstaff and back to Phoenix through Sedona… Or swim on oak creek….. Chamber advertising did not bring ” passing through” visitors going to flagstaff.
Perhaps you should work on stopping Flagstaff and the State parks from advertising. You said it your self visitors”passing through”.
Oh ya, Tony when the traffic study was being done there was no Advertising in Phoenix….. Going on…..
Tony you still have not told us how you will run Sedona for the better with $20,000,000 less in funding….. Easy to cut funding how will you pay the bills, pave the roads and fix the Y.
Show us the numbers….. We will be asking at election time … $20,000,000 may be low…. By the way day trippers are not a bad thing, they have a right to Sedona as much as you do …. And they pay taxes…

By: Tony Tonsich

Tony Tonsich — Sun, 22 Apr 2018 15:28:17 +0000

Look at the 2018 traffic study
http://www.sedonaaz.gov/home/showdocument?id=33738

Look at appendix D. The study pinged every cell phone passing through, as everyone has one now. The vast majority of traffic was just passing through, that means they were day trippers, not Air B&B.

The chamber is bringing in day trippers. The study proves it. The fact that the study is not easily visible on the city website and the most dramatic data is hidden in an appendix in the back of the study would tend to indicate someone does not want you to know the truth. Traffic is not our destiny.

By: Ouray and Durango

Ouray and Durango — Sun, 22 Apr 2018 04:28:34 +0000

The Colorado resort towns of Ouray and Durango were being clogged with tourists due to the state’s tourism advertising. The two cities demanded Colorado stop including them in their advertising. In two years traffic was back to normal.

Traffic does NOT have to be our Destiny !!

By: steve Segner

steve Segner — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 16:24:59 +0000

Mark says:if city resident’s want to AirB&B or rent rooms, it’s their right to exercise and not subject to your disapproval.
I don’t disapprove,
ha, you can’t have it both ways, Bitch about traffic and rent out you home to Air b@b that is all I am saying , the traffic jams this year were because of AB 1350 and 800 new rooms for rent … That is a fact…. The answer is to works on traffic,the city has a plan and the money…. Home rule will stop it…. That simple…. No one is Sedona bought there home with the understanding that nightly rentals will help with the rent until ab 1350 was passed.West Sedona traffic this year is all about Air b@b
Gary benefits from the city marketing of Sedona so he should support it.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 15:20:48 +0000

steve you ticked off gary big time, never ruffle a golfer during a game.

gary’s right about your failed attempt to make a valid point.

you gain by chamber expenditures to pay your mortgage. to extrapolate his point, every chamber employee pays their mortgage with city funding help, and so does every business.

residents don’t get the benefits, you do.

city residents (like gary) tax money is spent for your business to benefit. understand? it’s not yours, not city staff and council, not businesses, not chamber of commerce.

if city resident’s want to AirB&B or rent rooms, it’s their right to exercise and not subject to your disapproval.

steve you exercise the same right to rent rooms (you keep saying you live in that facility) but want to take it away from the city residents whose taxes pay your mortgage?

irony.