By Lorraine Longhi | Arizona Republic
Scottsdale Planning Commissioner Kelsey Pasquel resigned Friday amid conflict-of-interest complaints related to her comments about a development in which her new husband is involved.
At a planning commission meeting last week, Pasquel suggested that opposition to the Papago Plaza project in south Scottsdale was “fake.”
Pasquel’s husband, George Pasquel, is one of the planners for Withey Morris, a real-estate firm working on the project.
Pasquel did not return requests for comment from The Arizona Republicon Thursday. By Friday morning, a city spokeswoman confirmed she had resigned.
In her resignation emailed to the city, Pasquel said that she had decided to move into her husband’s home in Phoenix, and would no longer meet the residency requirement to serve on the commission.
