City releases balanced housing strategy data showing aging population and proposes targets to add roughly 775 households over 10 years

City planning staff presented initial data from a new Balanced Housing Strategy at the April 7 Planning & Zoning Commission meeting, outlining demographic trends, housing stock changes and draft targets intended to stabilize and rebalance Sedona’s population and workforce.

Presenter (identified by colleagues as Tony) summarized core findings: the community’s median age has moved higher (presented near 64.1 years), households have grown even as population showed little change, and housing-unit growth (cited as roughly 22% since the prior comparison) has outpaced population change. Staff cited an average single-family home sales price of about $886,000 and said short-term rentals account for roughly 18.1% of housing stock, noting changes in the short-term rental market and a large increase in single-family homes used as short-term…