A sizable project that will see the building of both new residential and retail space on the west side of Albuquerque has cleared a final important hurdle.
As proposed by the Albuquerque-based company Tierra West LLC, the development will go up on a currently vacant ten-acre site near the intersection of Seven Bar Loop Road and Coors Boulevard and will include a dozen two-story townhomes as well as restaurant and office space.
The project, which has been in the planning and talking stage for more than a year, previously received the approval of the city’s Environmental Planning Commission. But that approval was subsequently challenged by a group called the Bosque del Acres Neighborhood Association.
The association contended that an amended site plan for the project indicated a development that was too large and dense for the site. Complaints were also aired that one of the retail spaces in the proposed project would be given over to a cannabis retailer.
A city Planning Department memo later asserted that the size of the project was within the accepted legal proportions for the site, while a “cannabis retail use is a permissive land use” in the zoned district.
Launched in 1986, Tierra West specializes in land use planning, civil engineering, and development management. Its projects run the gamut from small infill development work to the design of large community subdivisions.
By Garry Boulard
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