Comments on: Spring Creek and Villa Bellagio housing brings 10K new residents to Sedona doorstep

By: Wes

Wes — Sun, 22 Dec 2019 19:48:03 +0000

It seemed P&Z didn’t care about us or our opposition at the hearings. Believe it. Dollars in pockets are Talking louder?

By: Ron, west Sedona

Ron, west Sedona — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 21:52:24 +0000

Read this today searching for other information. Couldn’t resist it. After reading this post I found a good place to submit it to help keep the lights on in AZ.

He nailed it. California isn’t the same anymore and anyone who wants a looney monolithic political base, go to Illinois because you’ll be welcome there and nowhere else. You want growth? You’re insane.

https://calmatters.org/commentary/so-long-california/

By: Gretchen, Cottonwood

Gretchen, Cottonwood — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 19:36:37 +0000

I’m against this. We don’t want it. We don’t like Sedona to begin with and can’t and don’t want to be like those snots. We don’t need a bunch of people in Walmart or Safeway causing restaurants to raise prices that locals can’t afford to eat or have to get in lines to sit down. Let them stay where they live now and make it better instead of ruining our homes like they did theirs. We HATE Californians here and they better stay in Prescott and Sedona. Everyone is a jerk that doesn’t care about how things are done here and yack about how it’s done there BUT THEY’RE HERE AND NOT THERE AND WE WANT YOU THERE AND NOT HERE. Don’t they get it how stupid they sound? Don’t they understand we KNOW why you’re here because you couldn’t afford to stay there.

By: Pat

Pat — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 17:02:47 +0000

Where are progressives, Sierra Club, KSB, Democrats of Red Rocks, socialists, environmentalists? For shame you don’t care about this and that makes me madder than hell.

By: Joseph "Jack" Graham

Joseph "Jack" Graham — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 20:22:35 +0000

Mr. Williams,

I sincerely hope that the information that’s been surfacing regarding the Villa Bellagio and Spring Creek Ranch Projects have not been approved, let alone considered.

The principal consideration in projects of this magnitude has to be WATER. Where will water come from to support communities of the size that these two projects advertise? The devastation to our landscape and further encroachment upon our ecological space is of equal importance. Additional considerations have to focus on the impact to the infrastructures of surrounding communities that are not capable of handling the existing influx of people into the Verde Valley.

While tourism has long been a major consideration to the revenue of Yavapai County, it would seem that the above projects would diminish the very reason tourists come to Yavapai County which is to see the beauty and uniqueness of the area they plan to build upon.

Information that is surfacing indicates that the developers are not Arizonans and I personally encourage these developers to pursue their “dreams” in their own areas and leave what is left of our great State to the votes, considerations and wishes of its residents.

Respectfully,

Joseph “Jack” Graham
Cottonwood Arizona

By: Matt, Sedona

Matt, Sedona — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 16:49:18 +0000

There’s no proof we need housing,a bogus lie to get grant money that we don’t qualify for without that lie. Airbnb just announced yesterday they’re instituting a new policy to homeowners & rules for renters that makes it more difficult. Keep up Sedona. Things don’t stand still.

By: Build-it.

Build-it. — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 20:00:46 +0000

New blood in the valley! Build-it! Hypocrisy abounds.

By: @Steve segner

@Steve segner — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 23:55:40 +0000

if that were true why are you converting employee housing into overflow rooms?

By: Steve Segner

Steve Segner — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 14:30:03 +0000

Gene, Sedona says:
Gean I the one fighting for work force housing, we need smaller lots for smaller homes.
Sedona Is working on housing and I support what their are doing,
I supply subsidized work for housing now and I want to build more, but to do that we need some land use changes.
Developers will be coming they are not evil people they are just doing what they do” build homes” and I hope small affordable ones for purchase not all rental.
Counties promote growth, there are no “No growth counties” in Arizona so we need to work with our county and city leaders to get the developments we want and need NIBMY talk will not work with city ot county.

By: Gene, Sedona

Gene, Sedona — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 03:38:12 +0000

I’m w/Paul C. Yes, it’s ok to build bigger homes, Steve Segner, some even as big as yours, because small, medium and large and big mac and tiny homes are fine with America, we’ve earned the right with our hard work and wise choices. I’ve seen homes in SF that’re beautiful, but the s*** on the sidewalks make them worthless for the s******* and the s*** ons. Protecting the environment means protecting the environment. A civil society means that the society is based on rules and consequences.

Your arguments @Steve always deflect away from the educated and lean toward the uneducated, possibly a reflection of your own state of brain? You as well as the rest of us in Sedona know that homes not commercial are the bread and butter of the developers and builders and government here and that (with a few exceptions we all know) pride goes in the designs and quality of workmanship. Most of the homes here have voluntarily kept the viewsheds from being ruined by minimizing their impacts on the desert, Sedona homes are ecologically friendly called “low and no show” while under-educated people might want “slash and flash for my cash” are discouraged and rarely seen here.

Beautifully designed and built homes are lived in by all socioeconomic peoples here in Sedona and not all are well educated or well heeled. Factually, the majority of our homes are lived in by under-earners who join together to rent rooms long term, making a community of residents. You are ignorant of these arrangements because you like to verbally pontificate and mislead about Airbnbs or short term rentals like the BnBs you own. I guarantee that your canyon home is inhabited by many others when you aren’t there, proving my point about under-earners benefitting from big homes.

Segner, it is imperative that you realize that your wealth was realized utilizing the principles of free choice and free will and opportunities created by others. You maximized others efforts for personal gain and like most well heeled fascists you want others to believe you’re self made and rose above the ashes of no education and poverty. What you did, Steve, was ride the gravy train built by others, and good for you. That’s what American opportunity is. If you want to drive from the canyon into town, do it, and if I want to drive from Flagstaff for most of a year because my girlfriend prefers it and not live in Sedona, I’ll do it. Don’t think or decide for me, that’s my education.