The Sedona City Council voted unanimously on Aug. 13 to approve a zoning reversion for six parcels of land adjacent to Oak Creek and the Sedona Arts Center from planned development to a combination of commercial, multifamily and single-family residential. The property, which is being purchased from Axys Capital by the Stevenson family, owners of Ambiente Hotel, is planned to be developed as the 50-unit Ambiente Creekside hotel.
The Stevensons’ request for a zoning reversion proposed that the council either revert the PD zoning applied to the parcels when they were planned for development as the Preserve at Oak Creek, which would allow a 36-unit hotel under commercial zoning and a lodging waiver, or that the city enter into a development agreement with them to allow a 50-unit hotel on the site in combination with a public park.
The zoning reversion proposal was complicated by the city’s revision of the Land Development Code in 2018, which eliminated the previous C-1 commercial zoning category, replacing it with CO commercial zoning, and by the city’s 2023 removal of fewer than seven lodging units per parcel as a use in commercial zones.
Attorney Nick Wood, representing the Stevensons, pointed out that th …
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