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Giants’ Papago Park construction draws lawsuit BY WAYNE SCHUTSKY Progress Managing Editor
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Sunday, January 24, 2021
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s Scottsdale resident Arthur Deal walks along a perimeter construction fence cutting through Papago Park, he shows off a picture of his grandfather on horse back on the same land in 1898.
Deal, who lives near the park, has been coming to Papago for 65 years – and now he is �ighting to preserve it. Deal and Tempe resident Lasse NorgaardLarsen have taken the cities of Phoenix and Scottsdale to court over a new San Francisco Giants training facility in Papago Park, the mountainous public space that straddles
the border of Phoenix, Tempe and southern Scottsdale. The �ight is nothing new for NorgaardLarsen, who has clashed with Tempe and Phoenix – which each own portions of the park – over the years to stave off new park-
Council: Public Generously grateful will have its say in General Plan
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BY WAYNE SCHUTSKY Progress Managing Editor
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cottsdale City Council reversed course on Jan. 19, deciding not to create a new citizen task force to review a draft general plan scheduled to go before voters in November. Just a week prior, Council voted 4-3 to consider the creation of a seven-member task force to review draft General Plan 2035 at the behest of Councilwoman Kathy Little�ield. The draft plan was already reviewed and edited over 10 months by a citizen review committee made up of 13 members of city
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