What makes Sedona undesirable and Flagstaff more desirable to tourists and home owners? Flagstaff is a real town that caters to the people who live there. Sedona is a tourist trap that caters to the time shares and tourist businesses.

Flagstaff is quiet, there are no airplanes and helicopters constantly flying over people’s homes or the US Forest. In Sedona multimillion dollar homes are harassed all day long by airplanes, jets and helicopters, when you go out in the woods to find peace and quiet you get more noise, even in Wilderness.

Think anyone will ever build at the Bella Terra property or Amara with stunning views of the Cathedral Rock airport flight path? How about the beautiful vacant lots on Verde Valley School Rd.? Helicopters fly over their homes and the lots all day long.

Who wants to build a 1.5 million dollar estate and have no privacy or solitude? Sedona has been turned into a circus show for a few businesses at the expense of the rest of us. It’s really not a place to live anymore.

The few greedy business owners will never stop, they will destroy our town until no one even wants to visit anymore. Then people will drive through, take a few photos and leave disgusted; we are at that point now. Frankly these business owners don’t care what happens to Sedona, they are living off the red rocks. A lot of people refuse to stay here or come back due to traffic and noise, they cut their trips short and head to Flagstaff or the Grand Canyon; that’s really good for business!

I can’t even say “not in my back yard” because this is a commercial zone, all of it, not a “back yard.” Most back yards have been taken away and if its not the noise it is the pollution from the cars, jets (benzene. iso-octane, 3- methylpentane, toluene, etc.) and airplanes (lead.)

Are you wondering what pollution? Just go look at the blood test posted on the front page of the closetheairport.com website. People are being poisoned to death in beautiful, pristine Sedona. Here is the source of the cancer in our young people and old alike. Sedona is not a safe, healthy or peaceful place to live any longer. I expect the cancer rates to keep getting worse due to progressive exposures and the land geology that traps the pollution.