Bob Littlefield, one of our Scottsdale Council members, is my hero this week for standing up for those of us in South Scottsdale who prefer not to have high density neighborhoods. It seems the City Council voted 4 to 3 to approve zoning for a 99 unit, five-story condominium complex on a 2.5 acre site near Earll Dr. and 73rd St. The area currently sports vacant warehouse buildings but is surrounded by low-profile neighborhoods. More and more South Scottsdale is becoming home to multistoried high density housing which is ruining the beauty and simplicity of our area. Downtown Scottsdale is now full of huge towering condominiums that make you wonder if you’re not in downtown Phoenix.
During a heated discussion before voting on the project Councilman Littlefield pointed out to Mayor Manross that this project would never be approved in North Scottsdale. She didn’t like his pointing out the truth and so sparring began between the two of them. It’s odd that the four members of the council, including the mayor, said they were not thrilled with the project but they voted to approved it anyways. I don’t think South Scottsdale deserves to be treated with such disrespect by our mayor and council members.
Bob is right — the Council never would’ve approved this for a North Scottsdale neighborhood. Council members Bob Littlefield, Tony Nelssen and Betty Drake were the only ones to vote against the project because they said “the city would be better off waiting for a more inspiring project that had less mass to it.”
GG likes to sleep in this basket ever since I threw out all the miscellaneous papers that were stored there. It’s very hard and prickly, but perhaps she likes the confined-ness of sleeping there. My other cat, Miss Ellie, doesn’t sleep in this basket, but I have seen her sleep in one that I have outside which is even harder and has more sharp edges than this basket does. Cats can definitely be strange sometimes!
A couple of days ago Norm and I woke up to rain cloud filled skies. I didn’t really think much of it until I got out of the shower and looked out the bedroom window to see a beautiful rainbow spread across the sky behind our house. Rainbows are beautiful and Norm and I discussed rainbows and how much we enjoy seeing them as he snapped this photo. Right away Norm said it was a sign of God’s promise. Anyone who’s read the Bible or knows the story about Noah and the great flood knows that God put the rainbow in the sky as a reminder of his promise not to destroy all life on Earth by a flood.