You do not live with all the air traffic going directly over your roof. My friends in other parts of town find it hard to believe we even have that much air traffic in Sedona. This is because the air traffic is not above 89A or Uptown. According to the airport website we have 40,000 flights per year and it was 80,000; half of those flights occur directly above my home with large glass windows. I am home all day, so there is no escaping to work to get away from the noise. I and my neighbors have developed extremely high levels of lead poisoning since living here from breathing leaded AV gas. I thought I was living in a rural, safe, quiet, clean place- I WAS WRONG. I was also not told there was air traffic in my area, it was in Mystic Hills which is why I did not buy a house in Mystic Hills.

Airports ruin property values and the quality of life for those who live with the noise and air pollution they produce, that is all well and good in a slum but not inside Sedona, Arizona. To have the amount of air traffic we suffer under is ludicrous and absurd.

Your remembrances of airplanes as a kid are quaint but irrelevant to my situation. I used to fly around the country on a private jet when I lived in South Florida but that does not make me love 100 decibels in my bedroom, home and yard. Then when I go out on the land in my area there is still non stop noise, so there is no relief from the noise unless I go to another part of town.

Rob Adams has hundreds of people calling to complain about aircraft, they all obviously live in high flight traffic areas. No one will want to buy a multi million dollar home with aircraft flying over the roof. We can either stop this now or wait until it is so obscene that the town is dead and there is no hiding the facts. Sedona is already is a noisy, tourist trap and over commercialized. A lot of people simply will not come here and if they do they leave as quick as they can.

Regards,
Kristin

As a citizen you certainly have a right to express yourself, as we all do. To make it clear, I do not agree with your insistence that the Sedona airport be closed. I have lived in Sedona for 19 years and have hiked most every trail at one time or another. I can honestly say that neither me nor any of my fellow hikers share your views. I will also say, unless I can be convinced otherwise, I would support a petition to keep the airport.

Now, I also find it interesting to see why it is, as citizens, that we have such diverse points of view. Depending on the subject, opinions by some may be based simply on an emotional basis, typically self-serving. Others may be based on the environment that they grew up in and are comfortable with.

For example, thinking back there was a small airport about 3 miles from the house where I grew up. I was fascinated with the planes as a kid, and I guess I still am. Perhaps this is why now, as a citizen of Sedona, the planes do not bother me. Either way, with all due respect, your Sedona is not my Sedona and I like the planes. However, like one of our founding fathers, James Madison, I reserve the right to change my mind if ever enough evidence of the airport being a nuisance can be produced to convince me otherwise, however unlikely it may seem at this time.

Regards,
Brent Maupin

AND….I find it interesting the photo she uses to portray Sedona is of a time or place where/when no humans occupied the land……she can start recreating this view she finds so attractive….by removing herself!

Every person who steps in front of a car stops the entire traffic flow. The pedestrians should be forced to wait and only cross once every ten minutes on busy days.

Cars parking on main street also block traffic. Of course we could charge a toll to drive the scenic canyon and I’ll bet that would cut the flow of endless cars.

It’s free to get off the highway and drive Oak Creek Canyon and 179 and then get back on the highway; a free drive through a scenic park. The city and the homeowners pay the price. If someone had an emergency in the canyon or needs to get out they are trapped heading south.

“Here again, Sedona has been lied to, sold a bill of goods, and the taxman will soon have his hands deeper into our pockets. We were told that this was for safety, when we were already safe as long as we were vigilant drivers. This is the nanny state at work. We look to uptown, a pitiful mess after millions of dollars of “improvements.” There was little improvement: the traffic still backs up into the canyon and behind the twin round-abouts, visitors still find the need to jaywalk, and people still stop in the middle of the street looking for parking spots. The round-abouts are a joke, especially the two were 179 dead ends into 89a – right at the “Confusion vortex” as if someone wanted to make a point of it. There was no compromise here. Sedona was blackmailed into accepting lights that were originally purchased for a defunct housing tract in Flagstaff. ADOT looked to Sedona to bail out the State, and we did, which makes me wonder who counted those votes. Things have not changed in the many years I have been here. This is a repeat of Rachel’s Knoll, the Cultural Park and 179. We have no voice at all.”