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SANDOVAL PLACITAS PRSRT-STD U.S. Postage Paid BERNALILLO Placitas, NM Permit #3 CORRALES SANDOVAL Postal Customer or Current Resident COUNTY ECRWSS NEW MEXICO SignA N INDEPENDENT PLOCAL NEWSPAPER St S INCE 1988 • VOL. 32 / NO 7 • JULY 2021 • FREE IVEN Bernalillo looks to D ILL the future with help —B of residents’ opinions ~BILL DIVEN Bernalillo residents have an opportunity to weigh in on how their town is doing and how to guide future growth. The results of a community survey, open through the end of July, will be one factor as the town updates its Comprehensive Land Use Plan, adopted in 2004. At the time, the population was about 6,600, and there was lit- tle residential development west of the Rio Grande. In 2020, the town population was estimated at 9,700, close to what the 2004 plan forecast for 2025. The first public meeting on a revising plan was held on June 23, with the next to be scheduled in October, after meeting comments and survey results are com- piled and draft goals and objectives for the plan are ready for discussion. Next, comes a draft of the new plan, expected to be The July 4 parade on State Road 165 through Placitas village brought out the red, white and blue ready for a third public meeting in February, 2022. If for kids and adults in 2018. The start time for this year’s parade has been moved up to 10:00 a.m. the schedule holds, the Town Council could adopt the with staging beginning at 9:00 a.m. at the entrance to Placitas Heights, west of the village. plan and put it to work in March or April. The town has contracted with Consensus Planning to assist in the process. The confidential 33-question survey, with room for Placitas ready to roll July 4 parade comments, is online at TownOfBernalillo.org and avail- ~SIGNPOST STAFF able in paper form at Town Hall, Bernalillo Community Independence Day takes on a little extra mean- enjoy this lively community event. His only Museum, the Martha Liebert Public Library, and senior ing this year as public gatherings resume and request is not tossing anything from vehicles and recreation centers. the Placitas Fourth of July Parade strolls up and not bringing floats that create hazards— Questions invite residents’ opinions on the town’s State Road 165 after being canceled last year. such as sending out flying water bottles, which quality of life, parks, and other town amenities, which New this year is an earlier start time—10:00 was an issue in the past. of those need improvement or expansion, current and a.m.—made in response to numerous requests, Staging for the parade begins at 9:00 a.m. at needed businesses and transportation services, and said James Madueña, the unofficial organizer of the entrance to Placitas Heights, just short of future economic development. the unofficial parade that neither has entry mile marker 6 on NM 165. From there, the forms nor requirements. parade will proceed east through greater down- “Everybody’s welcome,” he said. The public town Placitas. is welcome to bring camp chairs and coolers [For more Fourth of July festivities in the Corrales enduring and line the streets along the parade’s path to area, turn to page 9, this Signpost.] “Pain in the Asphalt ~SIGNPOST STAFF National journalism group Local folks who braved, and are braving, the U.S. Highway 550 project to support Bernalillo businesses honors the Signpost can sympathize with Corrales residents, now in the ~BILL DIVEN throes of a repaving of their main road. The state project covering the entire length of The National Federation of Press Women, published monthly by Barb and Ty Belknap. Corrales Road, one mile of one lane at a time, from during its annual conference in June, The NFPW also bestowed its Communicator Alameda Boulevard to State Road 528, began in early recognized the work of the Sandoval Signpost. of the Year award on Sherri Burr, president of June and appears destined to run past its forecasted 25 Co-publisher and editor Barb Belknap New Mexico Press Women. Burr, a retired pro- workdays to complete. Work is scheduled Monday- received a third-place award in the category of fessor at the University of New Mexico Law Friday, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., with warning signs Publication Regularly Edited by the Entrant, School, is recognized as an educator, writer, for the day’s location and a pilot car guiding drivers Newspapers. The Signpost earlier won first- broadcaster, and lecturer. through the work zone. place honors in the same category in the New “The Communicator of Achievement award is “This is going to be tough for our business owners Mexico Press Women’s annual contest, which the highest honor bestowed by NFPW upon who are now just recovering from the pandemic,” made it eligible for the national competition. those members who have distinguished them- Corrales Main Street President Jim Kruger said in a The Signpost was founded in 1988, and selves within and beyond their field,” the award news release. “But we will be open for business… through most of its over-thirty-year history, announcement read. “Burr taught for three Many of our merchants will be offering “Pain in the has been based in Placitas and owned and decades at the University of New Mexico Law Asphalt” specials and discounts to visitors.” —continued on page 3 While Corrales and its businesses remain open and accessible, commuters who consider the village a short- cut might consider an alternate route. 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