About 50 Cornville residents attended the nonprofit Cornville Community Association’s first quarter annual meeting at Oak Creek Primary School on Tuesday, Jan. 14, followed by City Hall with James Gregory, Yavapai County District 2 superintendent. [R] County staff.

Gregory led by addressing the Committee of the Board of Supervisors on October 18, 2023, expanding Windmill Park to purchase approximately 80 acres of federal land under the Township Act, adjacent to Oak Creek and Windmill Park.

“We were planning to trade cottonwood land for 80 acres next to Oak Creek in Windmill Park. Well, it took 20 years to get that process done,” Gregory said. “By the time the reviewer came out, one person rated it [what] The county owns for $13 million, what the county wanted, is Windmill Park on the other side of Oak Creek, valued at $3 million for offset. we [had] To support the transaction. ”

Gregory said the county will begin the process of purchasing 80 acres in person and will work with the Coconino National Forest on expanding the park.

“We set aside $3 million in the county budget to buy 80 acres,” Gregory said. And we plan to work with you all and hopefully put in a community center, some resources.

Gregory also introduced the newly elected Yabapai County District 3 supervisor Nikkicheck [D] To the participants.

“We currently have five dispatch centers in the county for police, fire and medical care,” Gregory said. “Our game plan is that we have something else. We’re doing another research to consider it to condense into two. [dispatch centers]. One for the Verde Valley and the other for Prescott. Doing that will give you a more efficient response. You consolidate your resources and not all of us are paying the dispatcher in the middle of the night. Literally you can put them in one place. ”

Gregory then said he expects the final draft of the study to be released in the coming months.

“I would like to thank you for the letters you wrote in support of the Upper Verdewild and Scenic River designations,” Cic told the audience. “It’s actually one of the best supporting letters we’ve received, and I’m going to continue working on that issue as a future manager.

The director of Roads Verl Cook said the county spent “a little over $230,000” on regular maintenance of roads around Cornville last year.

“There’s one project in the Cornville area this year,” Cook said. “It’s Roy Lane. It’s off the chick road in the market. We’re turning it into a paved road. It’s about a tenth of a mile. We’ve completed the suburbs. We have plans to pave next week.”

“My fingers are crossed and I’m thinking about building a summer,” Cook said regarding the roundabout time frame proposed at the intersection of Cornville Road and Tissau Road.

Audience members asked Cook if the county had plans to fix the pothole in front of the post office, and Cook replied that he did not say “it’s not a public road.”

“Last year, we issued over 5,400 permits, which led to a crazy amount of development in the county,” said Jeremy Dye, Director of Development Services. “Last year we issued 192 permits to the Cornville area, including one new home and three new manufactured homes. The other 192 permits, for the garage, and it was something like that.

Dai said the county has a five-month backlog to approve clearance of the cleanup system permit at the start of 2024, but the backlog has been cleared and now “we’re turning them within a week.” He also discussed county homes in my own program. It offers landowners a free home plan to speed up construction and has recently added three new designs.

Yabapai County is considering updating Section 603 of its Planning and Zoning Ordinance to include provisions relating to LED lighting.

“The dark sky ordinance, I would like to enter the board of directors by this spring for approval,” Dai said afterwards.

Yabapai County is also in the process of rewriting the zoning ordinance, which was first adopted in 1968.

“In some cases, there are documents that don’t match what we’re trying to do in modern times,” Dai said. “We are working on a full update, so it will be a three-year process that has been revised, updated and rewritten and adopted by the next board of supervisors.”

The county said it now said it hopes consultants have written an updated zoning ordinance and then have a public outreach schedule for discussion of planned updates “by early summer.”

For more information about the Cornville Community Association, Non-Government 501(c)(3) Non-profit organizations, visit cornvilleaz.org.