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By Jason Rose | Scottsdale Independent
On July 4 America will celebrate Independence Day. A day later let’s hope Scottsdale will be able to celebrate a different kind of independence, that from the divisiveness and political debilitation of the Desert Discovery Center/Desert Edge.
On July 5 petition signatures will be due forcing the project to a public vote. If and when the grassroots organization behind the effort is successful, the most impressive such movement in Scottsdale history besides the launching of the McDowell Sonoran Preserve itself, Scottsdale politics and policy will finally be liberated from the cancerous concept the DDC has become.
For too long it has impacted votes for critical public infrastructure and council cohesiveness itself. DDC advocates will surely try to sue to upend the amazing work of volunteers and others who have collected the signatures and done what few thought possible.
