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NEIGHBORS .......20 Scottsdale restaurateur one of 10 locals who like to make an impact this year.
BUSINESS............ 22 A place to wine, dine and play pickleball among 2023's new businesses.
Sunday, JANUARY 1, 2023
Rio Verde begins adjusting to city water cutoff BY J. GRABER Progress Staff Writer
K
athy and Russell Cox moved into their retirement home in Rio Verde Foothills on Dec. 22, 2021. They loved their home, and still do, but about a month after moving in they got a letter from their builder with news no one wants to hear: It said they had a year before the City of Scottsdale would turn off the water to the hauling company that serviced their house. “I called them and they said ‘don’t worry about it, this has been going on for 10 years,’” Kathy said. But they couldn’t just not worry about it. see
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As some 700 of Rio Verde Foothills’ 2,200 households start the new year today with uncertainty over a regular water supply, Russell Cox hopes he can trap enough rainwater for now for himself and his wife Kathy. (David Minton/Progress Staff Photographer)
Water is Scottsdale’s top issue in 2023, mayor believes ARTS ........................ 24 Scottsdale has a lot to get excited about this new year. NEIGHBORS ...............................20 BUSINESS ................................... 22 ARTS ............................................24 CLASSIFIEDS ............................. 27
BY J. GRABER Progress Staff Writer
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ater may be the defining issue for Scottsdale in 2023, according to Mayor David Ortega. “I am cautiously optimistic as Arizona and Scottsdale face the challenges of the mega drought, but my belief is that by holding true to our values
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... our family friendly neighborhoods and business-centered hospitality, (we) will continue to thrive and cherish our unique sense of place we know as Scottsdale,” Ortega said. The Federal Bureau of Reclamation has declared a Tier 2A shortage on the Colorado River effective today, Jan. 1. That means Arizona will take a 592,000-acre-foot cut to its allocation,
which is an additional 80,000 acre-feet above last year’s Tier 1 shortage. Even at that cut level, Scottsdale would not advance beyond Stage 1 of its drought management plan, which calls for a voluntary water use reduction of 5% by the city’s private and commercial users. But a Tier 2B or even a Tier see
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