By Parker Leavitt | The Republic
Fallout from a fervent battle over rural desert preservation in north Scottsdale has derailed the city’s latest effort to draft a new General Plan, four years after Scottsdale voters rejected a similar update in an unusual show of disapproval.
A divided City Council earlier this month denied a grass-roots proposal to include stricter development rules for low-density areas, a decision some feared could cast a shadow over the entire document and lead to another failure at the polls.