Tempe wrote Phoenix director of aviation services Chad Makovsky a letter dated Wednesday that said: Tempe said a 1999 updated Noise Compatibility Plan - one that was requested by the Federal Aviation Administration when the Arizona Cardinals were pushing to build a stadium nearby - was not agreed upon. But Tempe believes the agreement only included single-family homes, which are not part of the entertainment district plans currently on the table. Phoenix believes all residential units fall under the agreement, including single- and multi-family residences. They and Tempe have different interpretations of that 1994 intragovernmental agreement. Phoenix and Sky Harbor have been at odds with the Coyotes’ arena plans that received a 5-2 “yes” vote to continue in June. Please see my statement below concerning a mailer that was sent to Tempe residents from the City of Phoenix/Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport regarding the proposed Tempe Entertainment District: /ZLnHgaTnFd “I don’t want that kind of thing repeated,” he told KTAR News 92.3 FM. ![]() Woods on Thursday released a public statement with the hopes it would stop the neighboring city and its airport from distributing mailers that threaten his residents. That agreement aimed at allowing the airport to continue growing while keeping residents in all of the flight paths around it safe and away from noise. If Tempe builds more residential units in the flight path, the airport said it would have to also break a prior intragovernmental agreement from 1994 between Phoenix and Tempe. The airport stressed that the east flight path requires planes to fly over the Salt River bed before being able to turn after the Loop 101 to protect residential noise. Sky Harbor said it sent the mailers to another city’s residents “so they understood the risks associated with Tempe’s upcoming decision and have an opportunity to participate in the process,” a spokesperson told KTAR News 92.3 FM. The parties are in an exclusive negotiating window to determine if Tempe wants to move forward with planning a hockey arena, as well as hotels, offices, retail and residential spaces. WOW – the City of Phx is sending this mailer to everybody in south Scottsdale (& north Tempe, I assume) threatening that a proposed AZ Coyotes arena & entertainment district east of Sky Harbor will cause flight paths to get rerouted & may result in “planes flying over your home.” /5FsGispaYFĬurrently, Tempe has not approved any plans for the Coyotes-led entertainment district. “As a matter of fact, I have a meeting with the aviation director at the city of Phoenix within the next week and I’m looking forward to sitting down with him and having a conversation.” If people want to have a conversation with myself or members of the city council of Tempe or our city manager’s office, we are always willing and ready to have those conversations. “That to me is a scare tactic in an effort to try to concern my residents in terms of their safety and well-being - or their property values, perhaps,” Woods told KTAR News 92.3 FM. ![]() Arizona Coyotes arena plan: Tempe City Council votes to enter negotiations
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