By J. Graber | Daily Independent
A Scottsdale planning commissioner says someone claiming to be part of the taser-maker company Axon reached out to his employer after he voted not to extend the consideration period on the company’s plans for a new headquarters campus on 74 acres near Hayden Road and the Loop 101.
Planning commissioner Christian Serena made the claim in an email to Scottsdale City Attorney Sherry Scott’s office last week.
“I am writing to document an incident the occurred after the planning commission meeting Wednesday, January 24, 2024,” Serena wrote in his email to Scott’s office dated February 14.
“The morning of Thursday, January 25, 2024, I was contacted by the leadership at my place of employment,” he continued. “They asked me questions about the previously mentioned commission meeting. I was told that a person who claimed to represent Axon’s leadership contacted my employer wanting to discuss my public comments about the applicant’s case during the course of the meeting.”
While others, have said it may have been an attempt to intimidate Serena, he is not using that word. He said he simply wants to know why the call was made.
“Axon’s call to my employer was a first,” Serena said. “During the almost six years that I’ve served on the planning commission and the numerous cases I’ve heard, an applicant has never called my employer to discuss their concerns about my comments about their case.”
