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Downtown parking debate heating up BY WAYNE SCHUTSKY Progress Managing Editor
NEWS..............................10 Short-term rental task force planned.
ARTS................................ 26 Beloved artist's work goes on display.
Sunday, March 14, 2021
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year after Scottsdale City Council called for changes to the city’s downtown parking code, one member is calling for a moratorium on new developments until the issue is resolved. In February 2020, Council directed staff
Scottsdale debaters on global stage
to perform the study and investigate ways to improve the parking situation, which had been criticized by some local businesses and property owners concerned that new large developments would eat into existing public spots. Since that meeting, no study or parking proposal reached Council. Randy Grant, Scottsdale Planning and
Development director, told local business owners that proposed amendments to the city’s parking code would go before the City Council this June. “With COVID impacting everyone’s life and influencing how public outreach is conducted it seemed prudent to keep the focus
Big step forward
see PARKING page 6
BY KRISTINE CANNON Progress Staff Writer
FOOD.............................. 28 Vegans get a voice on Scottsdale menus.
NEIGHBORS........................................... 21 BUSINESS............................................... 24 ARTS......................................................... 26 FOOD........................................................ 28 CLASSIFIEDS........................................30
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wo Valley high school debate teams, including one in Scottsdale, are among only 16 teams around the world remaining in the 2020-21 International Public Policy Forum competition. The speech and debate team from BASIS Scottsdale and the team from Hamilton High School in Chandler will compete next month virtually in the IPPF Finals, vying for a $10,000 grand prize.
see DEBATE page 12
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Retired U.S. Marine Major Jim Geiser is taking a big step in his effort to build a memorial to fallen soldiers at Scottsdale City Hall near the existing Chaplain sculpture. To see what he is doing, turn to page 4. (Pablo Robles/Progress Staff Photographer)
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