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Prescott council delays vote on petition to require voter approval before selling city open space
Summary
Council agreed to deny the petition as submitted and schedule a special voting meeting within three weeks to refine language after staff and department concerns about unintended limits on city infrastructure and emergency access.
The Prescott City Council denied a citizen petition to add a charter amendment requiring voter approval before rezoning, selling, leasing or otherwise encumbering city-owned open space, but set a special voting meeting within three weeks to refine the proposal.
The petitioners, Bonnie McMahon and Rod Moyer, asked the council to put an amendment on the ballot that would retain city-owned open space “in perpetuity” and require a majority vote of Prescott registered voters before any sale, lease or non-utility easement. McMahon said petitioners removed an earlier reference to the city’s 2008 Open Space Master Plan and limited the easement prohibition to exclude…
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