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Population Overturn
It has been quite obvious. The City of Albuquerque is growing up. But what about the future of growth in the south end of the city. Albuquerque's South Valley is falling within the cracks. Half want it to be rural and half want city. What do you think.
1. Should Albuquerque spread south?
2. Should it stay moving west.
1. Should Albuquerque spread south?
2. Should it stay moving west.
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by mombat on -
The south valley is fine the way is. Yes, it could some infrastructure improvement and a little clean up. Perhaps new development clustered to preserve land make services easier.
I love that there are goats and cows 15 minutes from downtown.
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Permalink Reply by Jacqui Lewnes on -
I love having access to goats and cows (baby turkeys too!) 15 minutes from me. It would be great too when I'm ready to buy a house in a couple of years that the south valley will look pretty much the same.
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Permalink Reply by Hairy McLairy on -
We love living down here in the South Valley. I dont know if you could say its "falling between the cracks", take one look at the huge development of Medical & Dental facilities at Centro Familiar, and you can see that mucho money is being invested down here building community infrastructure.
The whole annexing the South Valley is an interesting concept. Would it want to Annex, probably not, however, the Valley could then get to charge the City of Albuquerque for the Landfill use, Sewer treatment surcharge etc $$$.
Keep the sprawl in the West and Rio Rancho, the land down here is too valuable anyways.
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Permalink Reply by Brendan on -
1. No.
2. No. No more spread!
Anybody catch the PBS documentary on the cancerous growth that is Phoenix? That's what sprawl gets you (And we don't have the Colorado river to make it feasible). The fact that Albuquerque's population is growing doesn't mean its square mile footprint needs to grow. Infact, we need just the opposite.
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Permalink Reply by shotsie on -
The problem isn't with large city annexation - it's when smaller, unincorporated areas (like the South Valley for instance) decide to incorporate, and then get interesting offers from developers who would "offer" to plan, design & build subdivisions with a "hands-off" approval from the local government. Thus, in the Phoenix area, you have many bedroom communities surrounding the city of Phoenix , each with their own development rules (or none) and any in-fill issues that Phoenix has get ignored in favor of building yet more subdivisions 20 or 30 miles away. Downtown Phoenix is pretty rundown for such a large metro area.
I would suggest that South Valley might be better served by making zoning deals with Albuquerque, especially around the river, setting aside land for parks and schools, and then joining Albuquerque. The South Valley then can get things it lacks, like sidewalks, streetlights and better roads using the ABQ tax base, instead of begging developers to provide these items when they build new subdivisions.
It's not a distance issue - it's an extension of the city into the valley that we past by when we go to Journal Pavilion or get used auto parts. Annexation would lead to controlled growth, not sprawl.
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Permalink Reply by suz on -
Yes, I did see the show (wasn't it called 'The Meaning of Place'?) And before the recent sprawl, the Hohokam discovered the same disease of growth in that area. As cocoposts pointed out, Chilili is possibly the only local area that has successfully dealt with growth ;-)
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Permalink Reply by Atrisqueño on -
If it moved west wouldn't it be the south mesa?
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Permalink Reply by Brendan on
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In my nightmares, 20 years from now, there are pueblo style yuppie condos built into the side of the sandias. Twitch.
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