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Oro Valley residents urge softer funding language for proposed performing arts center as feasibility study begins
Summary
Resident working group members supported keeping a performing arts center in the 10-year plan but overwhelmingly urged staff to soften draft language that would require the facility to be "completely financially independent." A local foundation has pledged $50,000 for a feasibility study due in January.
Malini Sims, a principal planner for the Town of Oro Valley, opened the resident working group's meeting by reviewing the 10-year general-plan process and the findings from the town's 60% community review. Sims said residents liked the idea of a performing arts center but were concerned about the town's role in paying for one; staff flagged a sentence in the draft requiring the center be "completely financially independent" as the evening's primary point of debate.
"It says 'completely financially independent' — is there possibly room for the town to subsidize private development in a way that allows us to move forward more easily?" asked Mike, a Parks and Recreation advisory-board member, echoing concerns from…
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