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Council shrinks but does not settle Prescott expansion map; Williamson Valley residents urge exclusion
Summary
Council debated the proposed future land‑use map and agreed in principle to remove already developed county neighborhoods from the planning boundary while retaining undeveloped land sections; Williamson Valley residents strongly opposed inclusion of their neighborhoods.
City of Prescott council members spent a large portion of the June 3 workshop debating the proposed future land‑use map and where the city should reserve planning influence outside its corporate limits. Council reached tentative consensus on removing already developed county neighborhoods from the planning boundary while keeping nearby undeveloped sections and adding targeted commercial/employment nodes, but made no binding decision on annexations.
Chelsea, a city planning staff member, opened the map discussion by saying the map "sends a message" about how the city would like adjacent areas to develop and emphasized that the map is a planning tool rather than an automatic annexation. "Just because a property is depicted as being on this map does not mean it's contractually obligated in any way to…
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