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Bernalillo County commissioners approve a new plan and a new park for Mountain View neighborhood
An industrial area in the Mountain View neighborhood in Bernalillo County in 2023.
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The Mountain View neighborhood will get a new sector plan and could be home to a new park.
The rural neighborhood to the south of sa国际传媒官网网页入口, just north of Pueblo of Isleta and near the Rio Grande, is also home to industrial businesses.
The Bernalillo County Commission unanimously agreed to spend $1.25 million from the county general fund to create a new sector plan and an environmental improvement plan for the neighborhood and to acquire land for and start designing and building a new public park.
The environmental improvement plan should document pollution in the neighborhood and aggregate data from work that different entities, such as the New Mexico Environment Department and Environmental Protection Agency, are already doing in the area, said Commissioner Eric Olivas, who sponsored the measures.
鈥淭his is a front-line community that really lacks a lot of community investment,鈥� Olivas said. 鈥淲e have a community center there that鈥檚 just been named, and that鈥檚 about it. ... There鈥檚 the Valle de Oro (wildlife refuge) there, there鈥檚 the bosque, but that鈥檚 a very different green space than a park. You don鈥檛 play soccer in the bosque. The bosque is a beautiful place, a wonderful place to recreate, but they鈥檙e very different.鈥�
The money will not be enough for the full cost of a park and may not be enough to purchase land for a park, said Commissioner Steven Michael Quezada, who sponsored the sector plan motion. Mountain View is in District 2, Quezada鈥檚 district.
鈥淚 think this is a start, and I鈥檓 hoping that when I鈥檓 gone Vice-Chair Olivas will continue to keep advocating for the money and follow through on the park for the design, the build, which will probably end up being somewhere around the ballpark of about $3 to 4 million,鈥� Quezada said.
The sector plan will not change any zoning in the area but should help the county plan ways to attract different kinds of businesses to the neighborhood, Quezada said.
鈥淚f you鈥檝e been in Mountain View all these years, then you know that it has been historically earmarked for the polluting type of industries, whether it鈥檚 ground or whether it鈥檚 air. ... What we鈥檙e trying to do is incentivize through a sector plan bringing in different types of industries,鈥� Quezada said.
