Northern Arizona mayors say short-term rentals hurt communities, want limits

AI-assisted summarySeveral mayors from northern Arizona municipalities met in Prescott to discuss problems caused by short-term rentals.Sedona Mayor Scott Jablow estimated that almost 30% of homes there are short-term rentals.Lake Havasu City passed an ordinance to track and manage short-term rentals in 2014, but a state law overrode it two years later.Longtime Sedona residents are…

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Could cloud seeding ease Arizona’s drought? Lawmakers renew debate over ‘geoengineering’

A measure to ban geoengineering in Arizona has been amended to allow cloud seeding, which has been under study for years. A bill in the Arizona Legislature would ban geoengineering and certain other weather modification measures, though it excludes cloud seeding.Cloud seeding has been the subject of studies and experiments in Arizona for many years…

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