At least a portion of the vast 730-acre site containing the former Las Cruces Country Club may be given over to new residential and commercial development in years to come, according to a blueprint moved forward by the city’s Planning and Zoning Commission.
Located at 2700 N. Main Street, the country club itself ceased operations in 2011, while some 30 acres of the property was eventually developed by the Omaha-based Tetrad Property Group as a medical campus.
Now, the Las Cruces Planning and Zoning Commission has given its stamp of approval to zoning changes that will allow for mixed-use development at the larger site.
In 2018 the City Council adopted what is known as the Apodaca Blueprint, which specifically permits the construction of single-family homes, townhouses, and defined green space.
In approving a new staff report on the conditions of the Apodaca Blueprint, the planning commission was also agreeing to a recommendation stating that no future development shall take place at the site without using the blueprint as the “guiding master plan.”
That plan, the staff report added, is specific to “roadway design, trail and pedestrian connections, land use, and building placement.”
The staff report additionally stipulates that “dwelling types shall be limited to single-family detached dwellings, patio homes, townhomes, duplexes, and quadplexes,” and that no building shall exceed two stories.
The redevelopment plans now go, once again, to the City Council for a final vote.
By Garry Boulard
