Flagstaff’s hotels don’t like the timing of tonight’s public hearing on a plan for a new 164-room competitor.

Mark Ross, president of the Flagstaff Innkeepers Association, said he was dismayed the public hearing on the Courtyard Marriott would be heard by the City Council less than a week before Christmas, saying some residents will be unable to voice their concerns about the project.

“It is being pushed through awful quick,” Ross said….

….Nackard pleaded no contest to charges that he illegally cut down hundreds of trees on the site that hindered his plans for a conference center. He paid a $9,000 fine.

City staffers acknowledge that the current plans for the proposed three-story hotel would be difficult to implement if the trees had never been cut down.

Concerns over the hotel’s proposed roofline and revegetation of the denuded limestone hillside dominated the planning and zoning commission hearing in late November, prompting commissioners to attach a long list of conditions to the rezoning request before approving it.

The commissioners had tabled making a decision on the hotel earlier in the month, saying they were troubled by the height of the lodge-style hotel.

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