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Southern Scottsdale Community Area

Southern Scottsdale Community Area Plan

CAPSouthern The Southern Scottsdale Community Area encompasses approximately 14 square miles of the southernmost portion of the city. The area is bordered by Phoenix and Paradise Valley to the west, Tempe to the south, and the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community to the east.  The area contains approximately 40% of Scottsdale’s population.  Most of the housing stock and commercial facilities in this area are 30-50 years old, making it important to preserve and protect these neighborhoods while still moving towards tomorrow.

The Southern Scottsdale Community Area includes ten public schools, three community facilities, and numerous churches. The award- winning Indian Bend Wash runs for six miles through the center of the Community Area and provides a continuous chain of lakes, parks, golf courses, ball fields and pedestrian-bike paths.  Substantial employment development is located along many of the major thoroughfares; most notably the well-established automotive sales business along the Motor Mile between Scottsdale Road – 64th Street and on McDowell Road, and the new SkySong, Arizona State University Scottsdale Innovation Center at Scottsdale Road and McDowell Road.


Downtown Scottsdale is surrounded by the Southern Scottsdale Community Area. The Downtown Plan is in the process of being updated. It will not be included in the Southern Scottsdale Community Area Plan. 


GET INVOLVED


Southern Scottsdale - Virtual Open House

Southern Scottsdale Visions and Ideas - ONLINE SURVEY


If you would like to be notified of upcoming Southern Scottsdale Area Plan events, news and opportunities to help, please provide us with your contact information.

 

RELATED RESOURCES

Summaries and PAST INVOLVEMENT


Southern Scottsdale Vision Themes and Priorities Workshop  - May 7TH & 8TH, 2008
Summary coming soon!

Themes and Priorities Workshop PowerPoint Presentation
(pdf/1mb/40pp)

Southern Scottsdale Vision Week: March 26TH – March 29TH, 2008

Vision Week Summary
(pdf/812kb/14pp)

Vision Week Workshop PowerPoint Presentation
(pdf/1mb/32 pp)

Working with the Hartley and Ruth Barker Branch of the Boys and Girls Club, the Advance Planning Team asked the children to design a creative and unique logo to help create a Southern Scottsdale “identity”.  The design needed to contain images that are most important to Southern Scottsdale and could represent both things that exist now and things desired for the future.  

The logos will be used on outreach material for the Southern Scottsdale Community Area Plan and one logo will also be used on the completed plan.

Vision Week Youth Logo Design – Submittals
(pdf/3.5mb/27pp)

Questions or Comments?

Contact the Advance Planning Team at 480-312-7990 or e-mail planninginfo@scottsdaleaz.gov.