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    Sedona City Talk: City Manager’s Office

    April 12, 20191 Comment4 Mins Read
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    By Marty Macurak, Communications Manager  

    City of Sedona ArizonaSedona AZ (April 12, 2019) – After careful study and planning, and many surveys, open houses, public meetings and council meetings over the course of more than two years, the city is ready to begin construction on a major Sedona in Motion transportation project: Uptown roadway improvements.

    Sedona residents have repeatedly told us that improving traffic is their highest priority and we are excited to begin this important work. Our contractor, Eagle Mountain Construction of Flagstaff, will break ground after Memorial Day and anticipates completing work before spring 2020.

    In its entirety, the Uptown project includes a combination of street, hardscape and landscape improvements designed to control and improve traffic flow and mitigate a variety of causes of delays. The project includes:

    • Additional southbound lane on 89A from the north end of Uptown to Forest Road
    • Roundabouts at Jordan Road and north of La Petite Hotel that will include public art
    • Connection between southbound 89A and parking on Schnebly Road
    • Landscaped, decorative median on 89A through Uptown that will include art elements
    • Decorative median on Forest Road between 89A and Wilson Road
    • Extended sidewalk on the north side of Forest Road between 89A and Wilson Road
    • New crosswalk across Forest Road  at Wilson Road
    • Removal of the crosswalk at the southwest corner of Forest Road and 89A,  and creation of  additional pedestrian space at the northwest corner crosswalk

    If you attended our March 18 Uptown open house, thank you. We appreciate you, and your input informs all of our project decisions. In the case of Uptown construction, we received input from business owners and residents on construction hours and days, best seasons for work, and best ways to help business owners maintain customer access. The city and Eagle Mountain Construction are committed to minimizing disruption and noise, and maintaining business access throughout the construction period. Eagle Mountain has experience working in the downtown corridors of Flagstaff and Winslow, and a track record of maintaining good communication with business and resident stakeholders.

    You, too, have a role to play in the successful completion of this major improvement project. Stay informed, be patient and continue to maintain dialog with us and our contractor. Sign up for Sedona in Motion updates at sedonaaz.gov/simnews. Visit the project website at sedonaaz.gov/simuptown to get details, view the median design concept, and access documents. To receive real-time construction information once construction begins, text the word SIMUPTOWN to 888777; opt out any time by replying to any text message with the word STOP.  

    Once construction is underway, please make a point of catching a breakfast, lunch or dinner at an Uptown restaurant, and perhaps purchasing a gift for a friend or relative from an Uptown shop. There’s no getting around the fact that construction projects do affect foot traffic to nearby businesses. Your patronage during construction CAN make a difference to our small business owners.   

    The work will be worth it, and Uptown is just the beginning. There is no one solution to Sedona’s traffic congestion because addressing just one congestion pinch-point only pushes the bottlenecks somewhere else. All of the Sedona in Motion transportation projects, big and small, are designed to work together to improve traffic flow throughout all of Sedona. Other active project work involves studying expanded public transit opportunities for residents and visitors; studying a possible Forest Road extension; providing real-time travel time data to drivers; coordinating traffic signals; facilitating pedestrian crossings near Tlaquepaque; and improving traffic flow through the Y.

    Also on the horizon is an amazing idea to build a community asset to benefit every resident of Sedona, young and old. As we celebrate the start of work to mitigate the impacts of vehicular traffic, I encourage you to learn more about a plan to improve mobility by keeping people out of cars. It’s a plan to build interconnected, shared-use walking and bike-riding paths throughout greater Sedona; how wonderful would it be to walk or bicycle from one end of our beautiful city to the other on quiet, maintained urban paths, surrounded by nature? Visit the GO Sedona webpage at sedonaaz.gov/go to learn more.   

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    1. PEGGY SANDS on April 15, 2019 11:49 pm

      Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t we do this about 10 years ago? Widen 89A uptown, sidewalks, put in roundabouts?

      Wouldn’t it make sense to come up with a solution that lasts awhile?

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    Dear Sedona,

    The moment is upon us. The time for a united effort to shift the focus back to our community is now.

    The ability to thrive in our community, our environment, our workforce, and the tourist industry, is entirely possible because we have all the resources needed for success.

    Still, we need a council that isn’t afraid to ask the hard questions, that makes decisions based on data and facts, and through discussion, rather than moving and voting in group unison as they so regularly do.

    This is my home. I have been a part of the Sedona community for 28 years. I witnessed the road debacle, the lack of planning, the city circumventing the local businesses ability to thrive, while making choices to expand the local government and be in direct competition with private industry.

    I am a unique candidate because unlike the incumbents, I don’t believe the government should expand in size, nor in operations, nor would I attempt to micromanage every aspect of our community.

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    Where are the arts? Where is this organic thriving element that we allege to be animated by. Where is our culture? Where is our community?

    The discord between the decision making process and the desires of the community have never been more clear. It has been nearly a decade in the making.

    It is time for a new era of energy to take charge. An energy that is reflective in the ability to succeed rather than be trapped in out of date consciousness.

    It has been a great honor meeting with each of you. I hear your concerns over the insane and out of control spending and I echo them. A budget of $105,000,000 in a town of 9700 residents is completely unacceptable. A parking structure (that looks like a shoe box) originally slated to cost 11 million, now projected to cost 18 million, is incomprehensible. Especially, considering there is no intention of charging for parking.

    For those who are concerned that I lack the political experience within our established system- that is precisely what Sedona needs… Not another politician, but instead a person who understands people, who listens to the voices within the community, and who will act in service on their behalf with accountability, for the highest good of Sedona. What I am not, will prove to be an asset as I navigate the entrenched bureaucracy with a fresh perspective. Business as usual, is over.

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    • Does this decision benefit the local businesses?
    • Does this decision actually help the environment?
    • Will this decision sustain benefit in the future, or will it bring more problems?

    What we have now is a city government that expands to 165 employees for 9700 residents. Palm Desert has 53,000 residents and 119 city employees. Majority of our city department heads are not even in town. I find this problematic.

    Efforts towards championing in and courting new solutions for our medical needs are imperative. We are losing our doctors. We must encourage competition with other facilities rather than be held hostage by NAH, who clearly have their own set of dysfunctions.

    We must remember that so many move to Sedona for its beauty, hiking, and small town charm. Bigger, faster, and more concrete does not, in broad strokes, fit the ethos of Sedona.

    The old world must remain strong here in balance, as that is what visitors want to experience. Too many have noted that Sedona has lost its edge and charm.

    As Mayor I will preserve the rural charm of our community, and push back against the urbanization that is planned for Sedona.

    As mayor I will make it a priority to create opportunities to support our youth.  After school healthy, enriching programs should be created for our kids, and available to the Sedona workforce regardless of residency and regardless of school they belong to.

    As Mayor, I will create an agenda to deliberately embody the consciousness of our collective needs here, allowing private industry to meet the needs of our community rather than bigger government.

    I hope to have your vote on Aug 2nd. I am excited and have the energy to take on this leadership role with new eyes, community perspective, and the thoughtful consciousness that reflects all ages of the human spectrum.

    Thank you deeply for your consideration.

    Sincerely,

    Samaire Armstrong

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