By Corina Vanek | Phoenix Business Journal
Scottsdale City Council narrowly voted 4-3 Tuesday evening to repeal city ordinances allowing zoning changes, a development agreement and purchase and sale agreements it approved in December for the SouthBridge 2 project.
The move came after Carter Unger of Spring Creek Development, which is behind the project, requested the repeal. The development plan had been strongly criticized prior to a vote as residents and some Council members opposed the proposed height and scale of the proposed development.
The project initially was approved to contain nearly 1.7 million gross square feet of new buildings, including up to 570 residential units, 200 hotel rooms, 119,000 square feet of office space and 86,000 square feet of retail space across several parcels totaling about 10 acres. The total cost of the project would have been more than $700 million.
The project had narrowly passed through Council in December, with Mayor Jim Lane and Council members Suzanne Klapp, Virginia Korte and Linda Milhaven voting in the project’s favor. The original plan was amended to lower some maximum building heights. The same four were the ones to vote in favor of the repeal Tuesday night.
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