- Town council rejects zoning change request
- Zone change blocked by loophole, campaign promise, two councilors
- July 3, 2009
- A loophole and a three-year-old campaign promise won the day for neighbors opposed to a plan to allow 14 instead of seven homes in a forested area off Tyler Parkway.
- Volunteers, donors save parks programs
- Friends group prepares to mount renewed fund-raising drive to save kids programs
- June 30, 2009
- Six months ago, Payson’s parks and recreation programs faced devastation in the form of bone-deep budget cuts that had eliminated all the part-time and seasonal positions.
- County Probation Department holding community forum
- June 30, 2009
- Join the Gila County Probation Department for the first Community Forum held in Payson on Wednesday, July 22 from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Payson Town Hall, 303 N. Beeline Highway.
- Mike Vogel rotates into Payson’s vice mayor position
- June 26, 2009
- Town councilor Mike Vogel was appointed last week by a unanimous council to the largely ceremonial position of Payson vice mayor. He succeeds Councilor Ed Blair.
- Payson budget shortfall grows, $1M needed
- Insurance jump, legislature’s budget, Humane Society funding prompt town to siphon off water department’s reserve funds
- June 19, 2009
- The Payson Town Council voted Thursday to take a million-dollar gulp out of the water department’s reserves to make up a fresh projected shortfall in next year’s budget.
- Hope gleams for opening of natural bridge
- State parks board orders staff to determine cost of reopening travertine arch for weekend visitors
- April 7, 2009
- The Arizona State Parks board Friday asked staff to investigate whether Tonto Natural Bridge could reopen during construction work on the lodge, salvaging the crucial summer travel season.
- Town lays off top employees
- Finance manager, parks director, fire marshal among those being let go
- November 25, 2008
- The fiscal bloodletting at Payson Town Hall started Monday, with layoff slips to the parks and recreation director, finance manager, fire marshal, town manager’s assistant, grants manager and two people in the building and planning department.
- Community Development Department
- What’s Happening? Design Review Board Recognizes Local Achievements
- October 9, 2008
- The Town of Payson Design Review Board, commissioned by the Town Council one year ago wants to make sure local business and property owners are appreciated for their continuing efforts to make Payson a desirable place to live, work and play.
- October is National Community Planning Month
- Celebrate How Planning Benefits Payson
- October 9, 2008
- How do you get to work or school? Where do you live? Where do you shop? Many citizens do not realize that these decisions are all impacted by planning.
- Where is the Payson Area Trails System (PATS) Today?
- October 9, 2008
- In the past 3 _ months since the Payson Town Council included implementation of the Payson Area Trails System (PATS) in the 2007/08 budget, much has been accomplished on an administrative level in order to begin building PATS in an organized, professional manner.
- Impact fee delay: Friendly or foolish?
- October 8, 2008
- Despite citizen and council objections, the Payson Town Council will give the water department the ability to stretch impact fees out over 10 years.
- Payson keeping fingers crossed
- Town approves $311,000 study for 13.5-acre airport land purchase hoping FAA will cover the tab
- October 7, 2008
- Payson last week crawled out a little further on the limb of a hoped-for federal grant to buy land near the airport, pausing nervously as the wind picked up.
- Residents’ concerns about airport exchange street changes go unanswered
- October 3, 2008
- Property owners expecting to express their concerns about proposed changes in neighborhood streets feeding into the airport exchange land, instead had their questions redirected to the planning commission Thursday night.
- Crackdown needed on killer weed
- October 3, 2008
- The Payson Town Council heard an impassioned plea from the U.S. Forest Service urging the town to crack down on careless property owners who are letting a noxious, horse-killing, land-wrecking weed get rooted.
- Residents decry Airport Road plan
- October 3, 2008
- The “appealing” plan to extend Sherwood Drive and Wagon Trail to serve recently swapped land near the Airport would “destroy” existing neighborhoods, residents insisted Wednesday at a contentious meeting of Payson’s Surface Transportation Advisory Committee (STAC).
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