OLLI (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute) Sedona Community Forum will host Lisa Borowsky, co-owner of the Proposed Spring Creek Ranch Community, February 19
Sedona AZ (February 12, 2020) – Will there eventually be a new 282-acre Spring Creek Ranch community west of Sedona with 1500 single family residences, 400 apartments, an assisted living facility, a general store, clubhouse, restaurant, park area, fire station, and 60 acres of open space?
That plan, presented by Eric Borowsky, and his daughter, Lisa, requires a proposed zoning change, one that the Yavapai County Planning and Zoning Commission denied in a 5-4 vote.
Since then, the Borowskys have been carefully reviewing the Planning Commissioners’ comments and using them as a guide for improving their proposal. What modifications do they plan to make?
Find out when Lisa Borowsky will be the guest of honor at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s (OLLI’s) Sedona Community Forum program on Wednesday, February 19, from 12:30 – 1:30 p.m., in room 34 of Yavapai College’s Sedona Center.
The Borowskys purchased the property in 2004, and they installed water, power and fiber optics in 2006. Their original intent was to offer two-acre lots but, given the Verde Valley’s need for affordable workforce housing, their current proposal includes smaller lots sizes and more dwelling units. Spring Creek Ranch will not be age restrictive, nor will it allow short-term vacation rentals, and, it will be virtually unseen from Rt. 89A,
Residents will buy either a site built or manufactured home to place upon their selected lot (land lease), or rent an apartment. The Borowskys will be the owners, developers and operators of the project—so they don’t answer to shareholders. Their aim, to develop a long-term, amicable, sustainable community with very little turnover, should discourage unreasonable rent increases.
Lisa Borowsky graduated from Arizona State University and St. John’s University, School of Law. She was admitted to the Arizona bar in 1994 and the U.S. Arizona District Court in 2013. She practices law in Scottsdale, serving business, consumer, and non-profit clients across the Valley. She has extensive experience in construction-related matters—recently winning a class action construction defect case on behalf of over 2,000 homeowners in the Valley.
Ms. Borowsky served on the Scottsdale City Council from 2009-2013, and has served on numerous boards and committees, including the Scottsdale Water Subcommittee, the Scottsdale Convention and Visitors Bureau, the O’Connor House Avon Program for Domestic Violence, the National Advisory Council of TGen’s Center for Rare Childhood Disease Research, and actively serves as a member of the Scottsdale Charros Foundation Board.
To meet Lisa Borowsky and to learn more about the plans for the proposed Spring Creek Ranch community, come to OLLI at 12:30 Wednesday, February 19.
OLLI’s Sedona Community Forum is an enjoyable, informative, weekly community event that is free and open to all.
OLLI (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute) offers academic, not-for-credit programs for adults 50 years old or older at program sites at Verde Valley Campus, Sedona Center, and Camp Verde Library. OLLI at Sedona/Verde Valley is a program of the Division of Lifelong Learning at Yavapai College. Registration is now open until February 29 for the Winter 2020 Term. For information about OLLI at Sedona/Verde Valley, contact Linda Shook, Associate Dean Sedona Center and OLLI Director Sedona/Verde Valley, at the OLLI office, 928-649-4275, ollisv@yc.edu or visit the website at www.yc.edu/ollisedonaverde.
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Please Sedona folks, do not be fooled by this developer. Hundreds of people from Cornville and across the Verde Valley have attended several meetings on their first zoning change request which was even more dense than this, but this is still an outrageous amount of homes on pristine Spring Creek in Cornville, It goes against the current zoning of rural residential 2 acre minimum lot sizes to thousands of units! The sewer treatment plant is practically right against Spring Creek which flows into Oak Creek. The water is from a well which is on land “appropriated” by the City of Cottonwood. This is not going to be affordable housing. We’ve been all through this at the meetings we’ve all attended. She will not come to a Cornville Community meeting, and is trying now to bypass us by holding this meeting in Sedona. All of us who live here have moved here for a reason, and that reason is not to live in a Scottsdale sprawl. They cannot be granted a zoning change to a PAD, that will open a can of worms in our valley that cannot be undone. Please get all the facts. Thank you.
Ms. Ordean:
Our Cornville Community Meeting is scheduled on February 18th. As has been the protocol since we originated our Zone Map Change Application in September, we work through the CCA Board of Directors to schedule a time convenient for them. We have met with the CCA several times, including during their Board meetings, at our general community outreach meetings, and numerous other citizen participation meetings.
We understand that a master planned community with lots of great resident amenities, far removed from any other development (as you know, we are surrounded on all sides by thousands of acres of publicly owned land), is not for everyone. However, we do believe there is a significant portion of the Verde Valley population that our community profile will appeal to. Hopefully, those people (our future residents) will have that chance.
Mr. Friedman kindly invited me to address OLLI’s monthly meeting participants. I am looking forward to the opportunity to meet with Mr. Friedman and those in attendance. This most certainly is not intended to be our community outreach meeting. That meeting will be hosted again, on site, at Spring Creek Ranch on February 25th at 1 p.m. We have not yet announced this meeting so you are now the first to know 🙂
Have a wonderful weekend! Lisa Borowsky
Interesting Ms. Borowsky, because according to the Cornville Community Association, your first official meeting with the board only occurred yesterday, February 18th. Your comments here are staggering.
As Lynne said, please don’t be fooled. They are Not bringing affordable housing to The Verde Valley. A manufactured home on leased land is not affordable and it is rarely financable. The lenders who do lend on them are extremely expensive. It is another ploy for Lisa and her family to attempt to pillage the residents of our wonderful community. When proposed with how expensive it would be for residents instead of scraping that idea, they just said they would do fewer units. This cannot be allowed. As a community we need to stand together against those who do not and will not live here and only wish to profit off of us while making no positive contributions to our needs. Affordable housing is needed but this is not the answer. We do not have the infrastructure to support this proposal. Cornville is already well over run with too many vehicles on our small roads and Spring Creek as well as endangered fish will be destroyed with this plan. Vote NO to this and do not support this destruction of Cornville. Thank you from a 22 year Cornville resident.