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New Council wants more General Plan work BY WAYNE SCHUTSKY Progress Managing Editor
NEIGHBORS .............. 17 Scottsdale nonagenarian pens 2nd kids book.
ARTS............................... 23 Artists to blitz Scottsdale at Holland Center.
FOOD..............................25 Honky-tonk menu comes to Old Town.
NEIGHBORS .......................................... 17 SPORTS ................................................... 21 ARTS ........................................................ 23 FOOD ........................................................25 CLASSIFIEDS ....................................... 26
Sunday, January 17, 2021
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cottsdale City Council opened the door to further delays in the process to approve a new General Plan, the city’s guiding development document that has not received a voter-approved update
in two decades. The current draft of General Plan 2035 was reviewed for months by a committee made up of members of city boards and commissions and the city planned to bring that plan before voters in November following a lengthy public review process required by state law.
Airport business Game on is �lying high in Scottsdale
But at Council’s Jan. 12 meeting, Councilwoman Kathy Littlefield asked her colleagues to consider creating a new nine-member task force charged with reviewing the recommended plan, gather citizen input and provide a new draft for Council review.
see GENERAL page 14
BY WAYNE SCHUTSKY Progress Managing Editor
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cottsdale Airport appears to have escaped the worst impacts of the coronavirus with both construction and operations booming in spite of the pandemic’s negative impact on the airline industry as a whole. The airport’s operations initially dipped in March and April due to COVID-19, dropping six percent compared to 2019, according to flight data from the Federal Aviation Administration. But that data shows activity recovered in the following months and the airport is
see AIRPORT page 6
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Scores of angry students and parents last Tuesday gathered at the offices of the Arizona Interscholastic Association to protest its Jan. 8 decision to cancel winter school sports. After an AIA executive board member changed his vote, the board gave the greenlight to winter sports, starting tomorrow, Jan. 18, but under strict health guidelines that include masks. Story on Page 21. (Pablo Robles/Progress Staff Reporter)
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