Almost 14,000 City of Tucson residents and others responded to the City of Tucson’s survey about the proposed Reid Park Zoo expansion. Here’s the results: https://www.opentownhall.com/portals/310/Issue_10562/survey_responses?scope=all On May 4 the Tucson Mayor & City Council will be discussing these survey results and hopefully will make a decision as to how to proceed. The Reid Park … Read more
PETITION UPDATE Victory! Jess Flax Tucson, AZ, United States MAR 10, 2021 — “Earlier today, the Mayor and Council voted 6-1 to suspend the contracts for 45 days so that the Reid Park Zoological Society can work with the community to identify other locations for their expansion. There is still a lot of work to … Read more
Tucson Mayor Regina Romero has issued a letter today seeking common ground between the Reid Park zoo and the Save the Heart of Reid Park activists, about the proposed zoo expansion which would destroy the south duck pond and Barnum Hill. I wrote about this conflict back in December against this destruction: (https://blogforarizona.net/save-the-heart-of-reid-park) and the … Read more