{"id":25,"date":"2010-09-06T22:29:14","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T04:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whoanm.org\/wordpress\/?p=25"},"modified":"2010-10-10T09:25:35","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T15:25:35","slug":"sandoval-county-gives-up-on-loop-rd-sort-of-and-at-least-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whoanm.org\/wordpress\/sandoval-county-gives-up-on-loop-rd-sort-of-and-at-least-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandoval County Gives Up on Loop Rd&#8230;.(sort of and at least for now)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sandoval County (NM) has passed a <a href=\"https:\/\/whoanm.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/SC-Resolution-on-Loop-Rd.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">resolution<\/a> that states:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">&#8220;NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SANDOVAL COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS THAT CURRENT SANDOVAL COUNTY POLICY DOES NOT ADVOCATE THE DEVELOPMENT OR PLANNING OF A NORTHEAST ROADWAY CORRIDOR CONNECTING INTERSTATE 25 AND NEW MEXICO STATE HIGHWAY 14 THROUGH THE PLACITAS AREA OR THROUGH LANDS BELONGING TO THE UNITED STATES BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a direct result of WHOA&#8217;s efforts and it\u00c2\u00a0reflects the clear\u00c2\u00a0wishes of the Placitas-area residents.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The proposed Loop Rd (\/NE Corridor) would have cut through the habitat of the Placitas Wild Horses and would have interrupted the Wildlife Corridor of the Sandia Mountains.\u00c2\u00a0 It would have also greatly increased the development pressures in the East Mountains, as well as the BLM land in the Placitas-area, and could have led to high density development as already seen in Rio Rancho.<\/p>\n<p>However, as good a result as this may be, this resolution is non-binding and it does not\u00c2\u00a0state any opposition to\u00c2\u00a0a connecting\u00c2\u00a0route between\u00c2\u00a0I-25 and NM14\u00c2\u00a0through the linking of existing roads, a sort of backdoor creation of a\u00c2\u00a0Loop Rd.\u00c2\u00a0 So, futher vigilance\u00c2\u00a0continues to be\u00c2\u00a0warranted, as the Loop Rd has proven to be a pet project that slips it&#8217;s way into the County&#8217;s plans\u00c2\u00a0every few years and\u00c2\u00a0has required vigorous opposition to defeat each time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandoval County (NM) has passed a resolution that states: &#8220;NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SANDOVAL COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS THAT CURRENT SANDOVAL COUNTY POLICY DOES NOT ADVOCATE THE DEVELOPMENT OR PLANNING OF A NORTHEAST ROADWAY CORRIDOR CONNECTING &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whoanm.org\/wordpress\/sandoval-county-gives-up-on-loop-rd-sort-of-and-at-least-for-now\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,3],"tags":[25,29,19,30,91,24,31,10,35],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loop-rd-ne-corridor","category-placitas-wild-horses","tag-blm","tag-loop-rd","tag-new-mexico","tag-placitas","tag-placitas-wild-horses","tag-salazar","tag-sandoval-county","tag-wild-horse-state-park","tag-wildlife-corridor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whoanm.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whoanm.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whoanm.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whoanm.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whoanm.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whoanm.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whoanm.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whoanm.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whoanm.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}