{"id":522651,"date":"2026-01-17T11:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T11:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/522651\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T11:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T11:29:12","slug":"speak-up-seven-story-apartment-building-approved-near-scottsdale-and-bell-roads-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/522651\/","title":{"rendered":"Speak Up: Seven-story apartment building approved near Scottsdale and Bell roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before the Phoenix City Council voted Jan. 7 to approve a general plan amendment and zoning change to allow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourvalley.net\/stories\/seven-story-apartment-building-approved-near-scottsdale-and-bell-roads,651749\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a seven-story, 315-unit apartment building to be built<\/a> on 4.32 acres near the southwest corner of Scottsdale and Bell roads, Mayor Kate Gallego took notice of the lack of opposition to project, though that wasn\u2019t always the case. \u201cThis sure started with some very upset letters but we\u2019re pleased to have resolved concerns. Perhaps one could say, the process worked,\u201d she said. Not everyone was thrilled, however. Here\u2019s a selection of what Independent readers had to say on NextDoor: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cIncreases traffic \u2026 lessens safety.\u201d <strong>\u2014 Jane Neuheisel <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>\u201cKind of looks like a prison!\u201d <strong>\u2014 Kathy Dana <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before the Phoenix City Council voted Jan. 7 to approve a general plan amendment and zoning change to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":521768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,11096,5643,1587,103750,2556,7065,1589,314,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-522651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-apartments","10":"tag-arizona","11":"tag-az","12":"tag-congestion","13":"tag-development","14":"tag-housing","15":"tag-phoenix","16":"tag-traffic","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115910211436326312","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}