In addition to the water issue, we have to wonder what 90,000 people are going to do to the area roads, air quality, and the vista to the west? My belief is that they’ll destroy it all for the profit of someone who lives elsewhere.
Water issue dominates hearing on development | Albuquerque Journal News
By Dan McKay / Journal Staff Writer
PUBLISHED: Thursday, May 29, 2014 at 12:05 am
Bernalillo County’s planning commissioners asked the same question over and over on Wednesday as they debated a proposed master plan for an enormous development on the far West Side.
Where’s the water going to come from?
“If the applicant can’t address the water situation, we’re wasting our time,” planning commissioner Lenton Malry said at one point.
At another, commissioner Joe Chavez, who presided over the hearing, put it this way: “We want to know where this water is going to come from. … I don’t think this commission is just going to vote on a blind thing that says, ‘We’re going to get it.’”
The questions centered on the proposed Santolina Master Plan, which would cover 13,700 acres southwest of Interstate 40 and 118th Street. It’s the largest master plan ever considered by the county, planners said.
More than 90,000 people might live there 50 years from now, under the property owners’ vision….
About 40 people attended Wednesday’s hearing. The commission didn’t make a final recommendation on whether to support the master plan.
The next Santolina hearing is scheduled at 9 a.m. July 30 in the city-county Government Center, One Civic Plaza NW.
Water issue dominates hearing on development | Albuquerque Journal News