After hearing from the public for more than seven hours, Valencia County commissioners approved a controversial overlay zone on a 3-2 post-midnight vote.
In the hopes of drawing more responses to a request for proposal to build a hospital in Valencia County, the county commissioners pushed the deadline to respond out by 60 days.
Most who spoke expressed concerns about water use and future water quality, the impact to the environment, as well as overall quality of life, if oil and gas drilling and fracking hydraulic fracturing came to Valencia County.