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Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Spring Creek Development
By John Little | Scottsdale Independent
American fiction writer John Gardner once observed “History never looks like history when you living through it.” And so it has always been in our fair city.
Architects, urban planners, builders and artists rarely begin their work with the intention of making history. Their sole thought is to do their best work and put forth their most inspired effort in the hopes that they have added something valuable to our collective experience.
In today’s culture we are consumed by the here and now. Because of our obsession with the present we frequently fail to honor either our history or spend any time imagining the future.
Case in point — our nearly 20-year-old General Plan. Our attention and interests are myopically confined to the present.