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Sedona leaders present balanced housing strategy aiming to bring families and workers back
Summary
City staff proposed a 10‑year balanced housing strategy targeting roughly 775 new and repurposed units to restore working‑age families and reduce cost‑burdened seniors; council and the school board asked for safeguards to limit conversions to short‑term rentals and for next steps on site selection and incentives.
City staff on March 25 laid out initial results of a balanced housing strategy designed to reverse decades of demographic change and help replenish school enrollment and the local workforce.
"You have 10,048 people," said Community Development Director Tony Allender, presenting demographic and housing data that showed a notable COVID bump and a forecast that Sedona’s population will peak near 2030 then trend downward. Allender told the joint meeting of the Sedona City Council and the Sedona Oak Creek Unified School District that the daytime population (about 15,571) underscores Sedona’s role as an employment center.
Allender highlighted rapid aging and household shifts: "Today our median age is 64.1, and 48 percent of our population is age 65 or older," he said, noting children now account for a small share of the population and that household size has fallen to roughly 1.9 persons. The presentation showed that housing units have grown (22% since 2000)…
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