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TAB briefing: new residential short‑term rental layer, traffic 'pain‑cave' mapping and upcoming Forest Road and kiosk milestones
Summary
Staff presented updated research at the April 16 TAB meeting showing a new residential short‑term rental data layer, an analysis of congestion ‘pain‑cave’ thresholds at three city entry points and forthcoming operational milestones including a May Forest Road connection and a kiosk test drive.
At the April 16 Tourism Advisory Board meeting staff presented research updates including a new short‑term rental (STR) data layer limited to residential zones, updated lodging metrics, and a new traffic analysis that maps moments of severe congestion — described by staff as a “pain cave” threshold — at Sedona’s three main entry corridors.
Data and methods: Staff said the city’s analytics team worked with GIS to restrict scraped Airbnb/VRBO listing data to residentially zoned parcels. That change reduced commercial‑zone listings (hotels/timeshares) from the STR scraping dataset and increased the…
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