[Source: Kate Nolan, Arizona Business Gazette] -- A plan to obtain special campus zoning for the 490-acre Taliesin West campus has raised concerns with Scottsdale because its owner, the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, did not file the paperwork by late September, as agreed. In April, the foundation made a deal with the city to apply for the zoning to get a Scottsdale historic preservation designation for a 10-acre parcel of the campus. The goal was to keep the property from being developed for any use that didn't support the foundation's mission to further Wright's ideas.Members of the city's Historic Preservation Commission became concerned in August when the Wright Foundation fired the executive handling its zoning application and communications on the zoning request ceased. Unsure whether the group was still seeking the zoning change, the commission asked the foundation to provide a progress report. At a subsequent meeting with the commission, Phil Allsopp, the foundation's CEO, said the rezoning request was moving forward. The foundation also agreed to submit a required historic preservation plan, but that has not been provided. [Note: To read the full article, click here.]
