Sedona voters reject Safe Place to Park plan for local workers

Voters in Sedona overwhelmingly rejected the City Council’s plan to provide parking spaces at a city-owned lot for local workers to live in.

Proposition 483 came about after the city opted to rezone a park to allow for overnight camping. The proposition lost by more than 2 to 1, with 68% of voters rejecting the measure.

The city will not be looking at other sites for the program, said communications director Lauren Browne. "We value and respect the democratic process, in that residents do not want the zone change that would have allowed the Safe Place to Park program to exist at that site," she wrote in a statement.

The plan had called for the city to allow up to 35 people who work in Sedona but can’t afford housing to be given access to a parking lot with showers, restrooms and supervision so they could live out of their cars.