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Mailed-in bond A new 'challenge' election ballots hitting record BY WAYNE SCHUTSKY Progress Managing Editor
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ith two days left before the end of Scottsdale’s special 2019 bond election this Tuesday, voter turnout is already exceeding turnout in the last bond election back in 2015, by 25 percent. The election determines whether or not the city is authorized to issue up to $319 million in bonds to pay for infrastructure, public safety and parks projects throughout the city. The bond issue was not the only thing on the ballot for many Scottsdale voters. Voters within Scottsdale Unified School district boundaries, which primarily includes Scottsdale residents but also parts of Phoenix, Paradise Valley and Tempe, will decide
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FOOD ............................47 Who needs sliders? Meatballs coming!
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Sunday, November 3, 2019
Tonalea Elementary in Scottsdale last week held its first Challenge Day for 100 students. The widely implemented program is aimed at building self-esteem while challenging students to treat each other with respect. For details on the inspirational program, see page 28. (Chris Mortenson/Progress Staff Photographer)
Pot shop now needs 5-member Council OK BY WAYNE SCHUTSKY Progress Managing Editor
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proposed downtown Scottsdale medical marijuana dispensary will need the support of a supermajority of city council, after opponents employed a little-known legal mechanism to challenge the project. Zoning and conditional use permit applications for the Sunday Goods dispensary will go before the Scottsdale City Council Nov. 12.
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Sunday Goods is seeking to rezone a building currently housing a tattoo parlor near the Galleria Corporate Centre. The opponents – local property owners who continue to raise questions about whether or not the Sunday Goods dispensary project complies with city and state regulations – filed a legal protest with the city on Sept. 27, citing A.R.S. §9-462.04. The state law allows 20 percent or more of area property owners to protest proposed zoning amendments.
“If the owners of twenty percent or more of the property, by area and number of lots file a protest in writing against a proposed amendment, the change shall not become effective except by the favorable vote of three-fourths of all members of the governing body of the municipality,” according to the statute. Scottsdale's current Planning Director, Tim Curtis, said city staff determined the
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