“All Roads Lead to Rio Rancho” was the title of Thursday morning’s Rio Rancho Roundtable NAIOP meeting at Premiere Cinemas and, orange barrels aside, there was some good news for area motorists with much more to come, when funding is found. Probably the biggest news is that the two-year US 550 project, which includes an innovative “continuous-flow” merge from NM 528, is nearing completion. That project is expected to wrap up next month, according to project manager Patsy Najar of the New Mexico Department of Transportation.
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Editorial: Support all RR workers no matter their income
Story by Editorial | Apr 4, 2021 | Editorial, Opinion |
Income level does not determine a person’s value or level of morality.
Nor should a community be closed to new people.
Why, then, do the ideas of apartments and someone with a lower income living nearby seem to terrify many people in Rio Rancho, especially when apartment tenants must pass background checks?
Over and over in public meetings, some people with nice homes on large lots fight proposed development of apartment complexes and neighborhoods with smaller lots.
Some concerns, like traffic, are legitimate, should be addressed and can often be mitigated with infrastructure improvements.
Officials, experts discuss effects of medium-density housing
Houses go up in Broadmoor Heights last week. Gary Herron photo.
The debate is becoming more common at Rio Rancho Governing Body meetings: Is it good to rezone undeveloped residential land to create smaller lots?
With a booming housing market and a demand for smaller lots, developers have been asking city government for land-use zoning changes to allow creation of neighborhoods with more homes on lots smaller than originally designed. Nearby residents with larger lots have expressed concerns about how that move could affect their property values and lives.
In the 1960s and ’70s, developer AMREP zoned 90,000 acres into more than 85,000 residential lots, said City Councilor Bob Tyler in an email.