Meeting Summaries
Scottsdale · 2025-05-20 · council

City Council | Special Meeting and Possible Executive Session - May 20, 2025

Summary

Key Decisions & Discussions

  • Mayor Lisa Barowski called the May 20, 2025 special meeting and announced a proposed executive session.
  • Roll‑call confirmed presence of all council members, the city clerk, city manager, attorney, and city treasurer.
  • A motion was made (seconded) to adjourn the meeting to an executive session for a confidential discussion with the city’s attorneys.
  • The executive‑session agenda will cover legal advice on Senate Bill 1543, its implications for the city’s single‑family and multifamily zoning, and related zoning‑code‑policy documents.
  • The motion to adjourn was carried unanimously (“All those in favor indicate”).
  • No votes were taken on any other business during the public portion of the meeting.

Brief Overview

The council convened a special meeting on May 20, 2025, where the mayor solicited and obtained a unanimous motion to move the discussion into an executive session. The purpose of the executive session is to consult with the city’s attorneys regarding the newly enacted Senate Bill 1543 and related zoning and housing legislation, as well as to review the council’s prior zoning case and pending referendum concerning property at the intersection of I‑101 and Hayden Road.

Follow‑up Actions / Deadlines

  • Conduct the executive session (date and time to be scheduled).
  • Prepare briefing materials for the city’s attorneys on SB 1543 and its impact on local zoning and policy.
  • Review and update zoning‑code‑policy documents in anticipation of potential legislative changes.
  • No specific deadlines were announced during the meeting.

Transcript

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[Applause]
Good afternoon. I'd like to call the May
20th, 2025 special meeting and possible
executive session of the well
definfinite well proposed executive
session of the SC Scottsdale City
Council to order. Uh city clerk Ben
Lane, please uh do a roll call for me.
Thank you, Mayor. Mayor Lisa Barowski,
present. Vice Mayor Jandy Bosquez here.
Council members Barry Graham here. Adam
Quasman
here. Kathy Littlefield here.
Maryanne McCallen here. And Solange
Whitehead here. City Manager Greg
Kaitton here. City Attorney Sher Scott
here. City Treasurer Sonia Andrews here.
And the clerk is present. Thank you,
mayor. Thank you. And uh there's a
proposed executive session uh for the
council to discuss and consult with the
city's attorneys for legal advice.
discuss and consult with the city's
attorneys and representatives to
consider position and give possible
instruction regarding recently enacted
state legislation Senate Bill 1543.
These matters also relate to Axon's
previously approved zoning case and
development agreement for property
located near the intersection
of 101 the 101 and Hayden Road as well
as the pending referendum regarding the
same and to discuss and consult with the
city's attorneys uh to consider legal
advice related to recent state housing
and zoning reg legislation including but
not limited to the legislation that will
impact the city's single family and
multifamily residential land uses, the
related related zoning code regulations
and policy documents that are likely to
be impacted and the city's potential
response to this legislation. Does
anyone have a motion? Motion.
Second. Thank you. All those in favor
indicate.
I thank you. We are adjourned to
executive session.