New mayor Lisa Borowsky said she wants new developments in Scottsdale to represent the city’s “high-end reputation” and “upscale community.”
PHOENIX — After defeating incumbent David Ortega, Lisa Borowsky has been elected to serve as the mayor of Scottsdale, the Valley’s sixth-largest city.
In a sit-down interview with 12News, Borowsky said she has big ideas for new development in Scottsdale and wants new projects to fall in line with the “high-end reputation” the city has earned. That means fewer apartment complexes.
“We don’t want to be average, we don’t want to be downtown Phoenix. We don’t want to have a ton of high density in our community,” Borowsky told 12News. “We’ve had really an overrun of apartment complexes that have come across all parts of the city and it’s really, it has not been thoughtful in that a lot of cities, they focus it in one certain area, so it’s …