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Spring 2018 Spring the zoning stone CLOVIS/CURRY COUNTY ...We’re Coming Your Way to “Rock On”! The Publication of the New Mexico League of Zoning Officials Table of Contents Letter from the Desk of 04 the President The Evolution of 06 Urban Planning Regional water plans reveal 10 sobering water future Photo Credits: Front Cover: Marty Bernard Corrales City Council Kills Pot Ban ATSF Alco PA-1s 14 power for Train #76, The California Special on ready track at Clovis, New Mexico. Taken from cab of Uber’s Flying Taxis of Tomorrow F&A 306L pulling 17 Train #2, The San Francisco Chief on August 27, 1967 Bond Backers: Rural Identity 20 Table of Contents: at Stake Taos Pueblo—Ansel Adams Drop-In Center for Homeless 24 Back Cover: Students Opens in Ruidoso U.S. Airforce CV-22 Osprey—Stock Image Curry County History 26 All photos provided without credit are open sourced, and free for commercial use. No attribution is required. 28 Interesting Facts About Clovis 29 NMLZO Certification The Zoning Stone 2 BOARD OF DIRECTORS PRESIDENT Michael Garcia, CZO, CFM Assistant Planner Rio Arriba County PRESIDENT-ELECT Loretta Hatch, CZO, CFM Planning & Zoning Administrator/ Flood Plain Manager Village of Bosque Farms VICE PRESIDENT Stella Rael , CZO Photo Credit: City of Clovis Planning and Zoning Administrator City of Alamogordo IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT Clyde “C.B.” Strain, CZO NMLZO Planning Director City of Gallup SEMI-ANNUAL MEETING/WORKSHOP SECRETARY/ TREASURER William F. Fulginiti Executive Director It’s time to make plans to attend the Spring 2018 New Mexico Municipal League CITY BOARD MEMBER Semi-Annual Meeting/Workshop of the NMLZO. Bradford Dyjak Community Development Director It will be held in Clovis on May 2-4 at the Village of Ruidoso Clovis Civic Center located at INTERIM COUNTY BOARD MEMBER 801 Schepps Blvd., Clovis, NM 88101. Samantha J. Mendez, CZO Interim Planning Director Lincoln County You can download a copy of the meeting documents—Preliminary Program, hotel information, and the separate registration form from INTERIM MEMBER-AT-LARGE the NMML website at www.nmml.org/subsections/zoningofficials. John Miller, CZO Senior Planner The upcoming Meeting/Workshop will offer an interesting line-up of Town of Taos timely issues that effect all of us dealing with Planning, Zoning, and/or Code Enforcement. Persons interested in contributing articles to this publication are encouraged to contact a member of the Board of Directors. The NMLZO reserves the right to edit any and all submissions. Hope to see you in Clovis — May 2-4! The Zoning Stone 3 A NOTE FROM THE DESK OF Michael A. Garcia President, New Mexico League of Zoning Officials Greetings, What a great conference we had in the beautiful Village of Ruidoso, New Mexico last September. I want to thank everyone that attended the NMLZO Fall Conference, especially Bradford Dyjak, Village of Ruidoso Com- munity Development Director, for his assistance in coordinating this event and leading the main street tours. I hope everyone learned something new about the Village of Ruidoso and the rewards of promoting your lo- cal main street and accelerating economic development in your community. Planning and Zoning is very de- manding and sometimes frustrating. However, the rewards are the great pride and satisfaction when you see the difference a positive effort reflects on your community. Use the opportunity at the conferences to net- work and learn best practices from around the State from other like-minded colleagues dealing with similar situations faced in their communities. The upcoming Spring Conference will be held May 2-4, 2018, in Clovis, New Mexico, at the Clovis Civic Center. We look forward to visiting the City of Clovis and Past President Louis Gordon. Mr. Gordon will host this event coordinating interactive tours of the Rock & Roll Museum, Lyceum Theater and the Hotel Clovis, so don’t miss out on this educational opportunity. We want to continue to bring the very best presenters that will challenge your knowledge, educate and train the new and not so new planners, “zoners” and code en- forcers. This would not be possible without the coordination of the NMLZO Executive Board, Linda Alire-Naranjo, NMML Program Director, Erica Jiron, District Representative Committee Chairperson, and Ron Vonderhaar, Advisory Board Member for their dedication and hard work in promoting and making the NMLZO Confer- ence’s a success. I encourage the membership to pursue the Certified Zoning Official (CZO) designation and Certification re- newal through the Continuing Certification Program (CCP) as well as to increase the NMLZO membership to expand this great organization’s training and education throughout the State. Respectfully, Michael A. Garcia Certified Zoning Official, Certified Flood Plain Manager, President, New Mexico League of Zoning Officials The Zoning Stone 4 news. Hillcrest Park Clovis, NM The Zoning Stone 5 The Evolution of Urban Planning NICK ROUTLEY FOR WWW.VISUALCAPITALIST.COM on January 20, 2018 at 10:11 am Urban planning has been around for as long as cities have existed, but the 20th century saw a number of bold ideas that radically changed the make-up of our urban centers. Urban planning has changed a lot over the centuries. Early city layouts revolved around key elements such as prominent buildings (e.g. cathedrals, monuments) and fortification (e.g. city walls, castles). As cities grew larger, they also became more unpleasant. Here are some key ideas from architects and plan- ners who sought tame the unruly urban beast. GARDEN CITY At the dawn of the 20th century, cities were experiencing big population growth. The Garden City concept – devised by the English planner Ebenezer Howard – sought to solve urban over- crowding and poor quality of life by creating smaller, master-planned communities on the outskirts of the larger city. The city would be structured around concentric circles of land use and include a sizeable park and greenbelt. Greenbelts were a revolutionary idea at the time and are still widely appreciated to this day. The Zoning Stone 6 sprawl across a lush, bucolic landscape. That vision stood in stark contrast to frenetic, exhaust-choked SETBACK PRINCIPLE cities of the 1940s, which resembled “fibrous tumor (s)” according to Wright. Early 1900s Manhattan had a population density of nearly 600 people per hectare and the skyscraper Though Broadacre City was never built verbatim, boom was in full swing. As buildings grew taller, the Wright’s rejection of the American city came to life in already crowded city was becoming a dark and claus- the form of suburbs and strip malls from sea to shin- trophobic place. To combat this, New York enacted ing sea. the first citywide zoning code ever in the U.S. to help preserve some daylight on city streets. Setbacks had an immediate and lasting impact on Manhattan’s sky- LA CITÉ RADIEUSE line, as seen today in landmarks such as the Empire In the wake of World War II, France was searching for solutions to house its population – nearly 20% of all French buildings were either destroyed or seri- ously damaged – and world renowned architect, Le Corbusier, was one of the architects selected by the French government to construct new, high-density State and Chrysler buildings. BROADACRE CITY If there is a true antithesis for today’s urbanism, then the suburban brainchild of Frank Lloyd Wright is sure- housing. ly it. Broadacre City was a thought experiment that envisioned decentralized communities that would When La Cité Radieuse (Radiant City) was completed in 1952, it kicked off a media frenzy. Indeed, Le Cor- busier is credited with pioneering the Modernist style of architecture that became wildly popular around the world during that time. While Le Corbusier’s thoughtful residential buildings have stood the test of time, not all projects inspired by the style shared the same fate. For example, when governments in Europe and the United States looked to provide cheap, high-density housing to low income families, the stark tower blocks they built often had the unintentional effect of ghettoizing their inhabit- ants. The Zoning Stone 7 THE MEGAREGION As cities within close proximity grow and merge together, finding a way to make them work as a connected economic and social unit is a key strategy for becoming more competitive on the global stage. Jean Gottman, a French geographer, recognized this megaregion trend early on in the Northeast region of the United States. His seminal 1961 study, Megalopolis: The Urbanized Northeastern Seaboard of the Unit- ed States, outlined the extraordinary dynamics that shaped America’s largest urban corridor. THE TRANSECT In North America, many cities have a stark divide between urban and suburban areas – a gap known as “the missing middle”. New urbanists seek to create more dense residential development, particularly in walka- ble, transit-accessible areas. This new form of city planning isn’t just cosmetic, it may help save cities from bloated infrastructure costs. Recent researchinto the tax efficiency (property tax revenues vs. infrastructure maintenance costs) of a va- riety of American cities and found that walkable urban districts tended to be revenue-positive– in effect, subsidizing surrounding low-density areas. The Zoning Stone 8 NEXT STOP: SMART CITIES In the era of big data, the future of our physical spaces may be defined more by bytes than bricks. City governments have been collecting big picture data for planning in transportation and zoning for some time, but new technology allows for the capture of even more granular data. Cities can now measure every- thing from noise pollution to wastewater volume, and this can have a big impact on spending efficiency and overall quality of urban spaces. It’s almost like a FitBit for the city.