Dedicated to the residents of Paradise Valley

                                                                                                                                             who care enough about their town to get involved....

Someone has to mind the store!

We lost the opportunity to hold the line on the building of high-density housing last Tuesday but 2166 of you voted to maintain the quality and character of our Town. This voice must be heard and we need more voices.

Over four thousand drank the developer's kool-aid because POP could not come close to matching over $150,000 that the developer spent buying h'ordourves, fancy ads and hiring high priced public relations outfits.

From Highground's website (Five Star's PR outfit): "In Paradise Valley, Highground's team, with the help of Integrated Web Strategy and Rose and Allyn Public Affairs, won the town's first-ever land use referendum with 66.87% for the Ritz-Carlton." The lobbyists won. Eight per acre won.

We all must remain vigilant to protect our property rights, our open spaces, our views, the character of our Town and all that it stands for.

"Mountain Shadows owner Crown Realty put the 68-acre resort and golf course on the market this week, but a quashed Ritz could also have quashed a deal for a new developer to resurrect Mountain Shadows," said former Town Councilman Dan Schweiker according to an article this week in the Scottsdale Tribune.

"This was a mandate to make sure Paradise Valley remains a bastion of high-end resorts," Schweiker said.  "The people had a voice, and we heard it loud and clear. Now developers who look at Mountain Shadows will know what they can and can't do on the property."  He neglected to say that 8 two-story duplexes per acre were also given the green light.

Schweiker's logic postulates 68 Mountain Shadows acres minus 25 acres for a Ritz-Carlton like resort leaving 43 acres upon which over 300 two-story condo-like duplex units may be built at eight per acre just like the Five Star/Ritz-Carlton project.

The Town's condo genie has now been uncorked and unleashed from the bottle.  Where in our town will it happen next?

POP will remain mobilized in an effort to safeguard the values of the Town of Paradise Valley. We need your help.  More to follow.

                        —Hugh Downs, Paradise Valley Resident

Is this high-density development the precedent for PV's future planning?

 

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1. Make check payable to POP. Mail to:

POP

Suite C4, Box 110

6929 N. Hayden Rd.

Scottsdale, AZ 85250

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• Five-Star/Ritz-Carlton Property History  read more

• Direct from the "An Exclusive Property by Five Star Development" website:  "The Residences® at The Ritz-Carlton, Paradise Valley are not owned, developed, or sold by The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C.
  Five Star Development Communities, L.L.C. uses The Ritz-Carlton marks under license from The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C."