Residents urge Tempe to act on housing supply, oppose Charlemagne Golf Course rezoning
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Two Tempe residents used the public comment period to press the City Council on housing policy — urging faster local solutions to the regional housing shortage and urging the council not to rezone the Charlemagne Golf Course for high‑density housing.
During the council’s public comment period, two Tempe residents urged the City Council to act more quickly to increase housing supply and opposed a proposed rezoning at the Charlemagne Golf Course.
David Sokolowski, a Tempe resident, told the council that “all cities have to contribute their fair share in order to solve the housing shortage,” and warned that delaying local action could invite state intervention that overrides local control. He urged Tempe to pursue local policies such as a density bonus program rather than producing more planning studies.
Loretta O’Connor, who said she lives in the Shalimar neighborhood, told the council she and her neighbors are “against the proposed rezoning of the Charlemagne Golf Course.” O’Connor described the golf course and surrounding trees as valuable open space, argued the proposed 277 housing units would be “unaffordable,” and said the plan would worsen traffic, noise and urban heat in the neighborhood.
Neither comment triggered council debate during the meeting; the mayor closed the public comment portion after the speakers finished. The council did not take formal action on either speaker’s requests during the session.
