Letter to the Editor: Don’t let misinformation decide the Regional Plan vote

Flagstaff voters are being asked to approve an updated Regional Plan, and as chair of the citizen committee that reviewed it before referral to the ballot, I want to correct several misleading claims circulating in our community.

Some context first. Arizona law requires every municipality to maintain and periodically update a long-range plan. Longtime residents have voted on previous versions. This is a routine update to the community’s long-term planning document, designed to give future land-use decisions a consistent framework rather than leaving them to ad hoc, project-by-project judgment.