is
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yeah oh you're one of the lucky ones
okay good evening and welcome to the
meeting of the planning zoning
commission it's april 27th
2021 and the time is six o'clock
the first order of business is conflict
of so i'm calling the meeting to order
right
and i want to welcome vanessa vega as
our newest member
and the first item is conflict of
interest
does anybody have a conflict of interest
with this
agenda if you do could you please raise
your hand
okay seeing none we'll move on to the
approval of
the minutes for february 23rd
2021 i need a motion and a second to
approve the minutes i'll make a motion
we approve the minutes this is
commissioner gordon
and then i'll i'll second it uh
commissioner guerrero okay
thank you we have a motion and a second
um any corrections or
changes i
i have one um
last time um i talked about can mex
corridor c-a-n-m-e-x and it turned out
in the
minutes to say can canamex c-a-n-a-n
can we fix that it occurs like maybe two
or three times
and it's just a surface level change so
i
don't we don't need a amendment or
anything
it's it's just a little spelling errors
so is that okay you can approve the
madam chair this is catherine you can
approve
um the the minutes with those changes
and then those will those will be
modified
okay okay
here i'll call the roll for you um yes
please commissioner bennett
this is for approval of the minutes
commissioner smith i approve
commissioner guerrero
yes
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commissioner vega
you could abstain if you're not i
actually read them all and went through
everything
um commissioner gordon yes
and chair thomas yes your minutes are
approved six
zero with one absent thank you
next on our agenda is postponements we
don't have any of those
after that is public participation
do we have anybody for public
participation tonight
commissioner uh thomas this is catherine
again for the record
we do have several attendees but i don't
see any hands up at this point in time
looks like most of them are here for
specific projects
right thank you old business we have
none
and so we're moving right along here to
new business
and the first is the 523
foster road zone change so i need a
motion and a second
and then we can start the discussion all
right i'll make a motion every approve
item one on the agenda
of course the road change is there a
second
uh commissioner bennett nice second okay
it's been moved and seconded
catherine do we have a presentation
commissioner thomas i will turn it over
to planner
john castillo for the presentation thank
you welcome
john
good evening everyone for the record my
name is john castillo i'm a planner with
the city of las cruces
um today i'll be presenting a zone
change from
r1a which is our single-family medium
density to r4
multi-dwelling high density limited
retailing office
for a property located at 523 foster
road
and before i continue on let me share my
screen
is everybody able to see the
presentation
yes i can see it okay um
so current conditions of the property um
the property is a vacant lot that
encompasses
um 0.828 acres located at 523 foster
road
um it's currently zoned r1a the property
is adjacent to a mixed use corridor
the el paseo corridor which is a
commercial retail
um area the property also encompasses
mixed-use residential from medium to
high density
to the south and to the east town homes
apartment complexes
and more single-family dwelling units
as you can see right here this is an
image of the vacant property located at
523 foster
across the street oh we have similar
town homes
uh we have apartment complexes um
according to the zarya map this is not
the right one
i apologize about that i don't know why
these are different they were right the
other day
so the proposal of the applicant is
requesting a zone change from r1a
to r4 to propose development of a 24
unit townhouse apartments
um this is an image of what the building
footprint would look like
um and these are conceptual drawings of
the front elevation
and the floor plan
um so with further analysis uh
it does meet compliance with the 2001
zoning code um
it's supported by elevate las cruces
comprehensive plan
um the future development app locates
the property within the urban
neighborhood
it's near a mixed use corridor
it also meets purposes and intense
statements and the pnz's decision
criteria
at the time this was created there were
no
all reviews were sent to all relevant
agencies and departments um they all
supported the zone change
um all public notices were sent out um
to surrounding
properties uh no input was provided at
the time of this presentation at the
time of the staff report
um so today we're recommending approval
um the request promotes the development
of a vacant property
the proposed development will be
consistent with the residential
development and zoning
throughout the surrounding areas um
as mentioned previously the subject
property is located adjacent to a
principal arterial roadway
uh which is a major mixed-use corridor
uh the purple proposed zone change will
provide mixed housing type styles and
living arrangements for families with
different socioeconomic levels
um the request is also supported by the
elevate las cruces comprehensive plan
and meets the purpose and intent of the
2001 zoning code
your options today are to vote yes to
approve vote no to deny
uh vote to amend or vote to table
thank you any questions um any questions
or comment from
the commissioners well this is
commissioner gordon
uh not that it's not that it's critical
but it would have been nice and i don't
have it in my
parcel that we could have had a copy of
the floor plan so we could have had an
idea of what they are planning to do
there um i did receive those a bit late
after
um but yes it i did mean to
provide those with you yeah well next
time perhaps maybe we can just do is
just
scan it and send us an email yes
that'd be great
anything else any other commissioners
any public comment i don't think we have
any buddy from the public here
okay then i guess we'll have a roll call
mr weir
um madam chair uh commissioner bennett
i uh vote to approve uh meets elevate
las cruces
um promotes um development of the vacant
vacant property and um and
the other other reasoning is the is my
site visit
as well commissioner smith
i vote to approve based on
elevate las cruces
i think it's good it makes
um you know part of the plan to you know
to
to include you know various economic
levels
um so i i vote to approve
mr guerrero uh
i vote yes uh based on it meeting
uh the comprehensive planning um and
as well it's a good opportunity to
provide more housing for families so
i definitely vote yes on that
commissioner vega
i vote to approve as well based on the
elevate comprehensive plan and staff
recommendation
commissioner gordon i vote yes based on
the discussion
uh my site visit um
company the elevate las cruces a
comprehensive plan
and it does remove another empty lot
from that area
and would provide nice housing for
someone so
definitely i approve it chair thomas
i vote yes based on a site visit and
complies with elevate las cruces and
it will provide more density close to
the el paseo corridor which will
we need to support retail on businesses
there
and it's next door to a montessori
school
i didn't know that until i went to visit
madam chair
the pnz has recommended approval that
zone change to the city council by a
six zero one member absent vote thank
you very much
our next item item two
three three zero zero west picacho
request for a zone change i need a
motion and a second
all right this is commissioner gordon i
vote we approve uh item number two the
3300 was picacho's own change
and uh commissioner guerrero i second
that motion
thank you is there presentation
commissioner thomas this again this is
catherine harrison rogers for the record
we'll go ahead and turn it over again
to mr john castillo planner with the
department
hi good evening once again um madam
chair commission
today we are going to request a zone
change from a2 which is a rural
agricultural district
that was from the 1981 zoning code to
c2 which is our commercial medium
density
our medium intensity um zoning district
at 3300 west picacho avenue
um current conditions of the property um
it currently encompasses 0.93 acres
it's located at 3300 west picacho avenue
which is considered a major arterial
roadway
currently it is zoned a2 the property is
along a major east-west corridor that
runs through the city of las cruces
and the property encompasses residential
housing to the northeast
uh commercial and industrial uses to the
south east and west
from the images here uh this is a view
from road runner lane now the subject
property
as well as a view from west picacho
avenue
looking west bound on picacho avenue you
can see some vacant properties
as well as commercial further
west directly adjacent to it is a
residential property
um then looking eastbound on
picacho avenue there's more commercial
development
this is a zoning map showing that it's
a2
as you can see further west it turns
into commercial
then you have surroundings of
residential and commercial and
industrial
so there uh the owner is requesting a
zone change from a2
to c2 uh they're expanding on potential
uses such as commercial retail sales and
institutional uses
it also facilitates compliance with the
2001 city of las cruces municipal code
further analysis showed that it does
provide compliance with the 2001 zoning
code
it is supported by elevate las cruces
comprehensive plan
um the future the future development map
locates the property within the rural
neighborhood which does not support
the c2 aspect of it but it does support
light commercial
um based on action ce 1.1.5
um it were to consider the
appropriateness of future development
so the sea tube is would be considered
an appropriate development
or zoning designation for future
development of that area
it's also located along a major
east-west corridor
it does meet purpose and intent
statements and the decision criteria
at the time of the staff report in the
development of this presentation
there were no there was no public input
from the surrounding properties uh all
reviews were sent to all relevant
agencies and departments
all supported the zone change
staff recommendation is the is an
approval of the zone change uh based on
the proposed zone change which is
consistent in the zoning
with the zoning in the surrounding area
the request will also allow for the
attraction and retention of businesses
at the location through the expansion of
potential uses
while keeping with the standards of the
c2 zone
um the sub the property is also located
on the principal arterial roadway which
supports c2 zoning
today you have your options which are to
vote yes for approval no for denial
you can put commander put to table
thank you very much are there questions
or comments from
commissioners yeah this is commissioner
this is just curiosity it's not going to
change my vote but uh do we know
like i said uh retail restaurant we know
what what uh what type of business
they're
they're hoping to uh rent out to i mean
once they build it
um so at this moment right now uh
speaking with the property owner and i
believe they are in attendance today so
they may
further elaborate on this um
but as of this moment it was kind of
real brought into just uh retail um
sales
and i have a question john um there
there is a house
already on this property right yes
there is the house currently on the
property um
it used to be a
a church um prior to 2011 or around
2011.
oh okay even though it was zoned rural
yes
okay wait a minute this is commissioner
gordon
i i have a question uh john on the back
of your
deeper poll of these the packet item
with the comments from department review
comments
there are three questions i would like
to get an answer to number one it says
traffic engineering it says yes with
conditions
but no comments what does that mean what
are the conditions that they're imposing
that they would like to have
um so the commissioner gordon uh madame
chair
uh the comments that were provided from
uh
hector were more based on the approval
of uh
new mexico department of transportation
oh okay all right well wouldn't it would
have been nice just to put that in here
if you have that information because
otherwise you're looking at this they
say yes
with conditions i would like to know
what conditions they're talking about
and number two like another the second
one is engineering
is it going to retain this runoff does
it get as the owner agreed to do this
yes so um commissioner gordon madam
chair
um that condition placed by engineering
is more of
for future development as to pertaining
to keeping
any um runoff into online ponding
okay so i assume that the owner will
abide by this decision
yes then the last one that says the
property does not have
lots of utility water etcetera etcetera
what is he going to do about that
madam chair commissioner gordon um the
once again that that comment was also
based towards future development
of the property um to bring into
compliance with
city utilities that's all well and good
but is the owner willing to comply to
all these things that's all i want to
know
i mean i can sit here and say you have
to do this and he doesn't do it
yes no i want to know sorry before you
before i approve this i would like to
know that he's going to agree to do
whatever
has been suggested by the department
madam chair commissioner gordon um i
would defer
to the applicant who is present
and does have the ability to respond to
your questions mr mount
good evening uh madame tara thomas
commissioners can you hear me okay
yes uh mr mount i have to swear you in
door
okay do you swear and affirm that the
testimony you're about to give is the
truth and nothing but the truth
under penalty of law it is
okay go ahead okay would you repeat the
question please
well basically number one i just want to
know whether or not
whatever traffic engineering is going to
suggest
or want you to do or you will abide by
whether or not you're going to maintain
whatever requirements you're going to do
to meet the runoff
and third what are you going to do about
utilities
commissioner gordon madam chair thomas
uh
that is correct we will abide by all
regulations set forth and
and we'll pay for uh number one the
extension the utilities
to attach to the nearest location that
will be on our dime
if we do move forward with any type of
development but we will comply with
everything that the planning department
has stated
okay that's great thank you very much i
appreciate that yes sir
any more comments or questions from
commissioners
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okay i don't think we have any public
input because there's nobody here
so if and given there's no more comment
from the commission
we'll go to voting david
thank you madam chair uh commissioner
bennett
uh i vote to approve based on staff
recommendation elevate las cruces
uh the zone change is also compatible
with the surrounding area
commissioner smith uh i
vote to approve based on staff
recommendation
also it meets with uh it's consistent
with the purpose
and antenna of the uh zoning ordinance
um i did a site this is a loss so i was
on a bike ride
and uh i wrote through that area
sorry um and
uh yeah i mean many of the farms are
being converted into commercial
properties out there so
um i i realized that just
changed this happening so i i go
to approve because it is consistent with
uh
with what they're doing up there
so a lot of dogs
commissioner guerrero uh
uh i vote yes uh based on it uh lining
up with the
las cruces comprehensive elevate plan
and site visit as well that's it
okay uh commissioner vega
vote yes based on the elevate las cruces
plan site visits and it would be nice to
see some some growth along the corridor
there
similar to commissioner smith i do some
biking by there as well
commissioner gordon based on the
findings
recommendations by the department our
discussion
uh it does fit elevate las cruces it
would be nice to see maybe some very
good commercial in that area
uh although i do like farming but uh if
it's going to be for some useful purpose
fine so are therefore vote to approve
chair thomas yes i vote yes versa
based on a site visit and fits the
zoning code and it fits elevate las
cruces
madam chair of the planning zoning
commission has made a recommendation for
approval of the zone changes city
council
by six zero and one absent vote thank
you
um the next it is number three i notice
that we
don't have on the agenda we didn't have
any
approval of the agenda so we didn't
remove
number four so i think we'll go ahead
and do number three and then we'll
remove number four if that works for
everybody
what are we going to do we're we're
we're doing number three the the master
plan
but we're not doing the overlay
zone district but we didn't have
usually there's an item on the agenda
that says approval of the
agenda but it got left off for some
reason and so
we didn't do that commissioner thomas
members of the commission just for
clarification
the agenda template that we're working
with is is generated on a new system
that we've been utilizing over the last
year
and that's something that we could bring
to the attention um
of the clerk uh to see if we can add
that back in just so that we don't
forget it in the future
right right but for our purposes tonight
i think we'll just go ahead and do
number three and then when we get to
number four we'll
talk about you know why it's being
removed is that okay
quickly who removed it nobody told me
that well the staff
is going to say why they want to remove
it well okay
normally they would do that earlier in
the agenda but
we didn't have that item so
okay sorry okay so now we're on number
three
miss west mesa industrial park master
plan i need a motion and a second so we
can start the discussion
all right there's commissioner gordon
again i vote that we
approve item number three to west mesa
industrial pokemaster plan
is there a second uh this is
commissioner smith i
second that motion thank you um
is there a presentation
commissioner thomas again this is
catherine harrison rogers for the record
i'm going to go ahead and turn it over
to economic development specifically
uh cilicia viegas will be discussing and
then she will
then introduce the uh the app well
the consultants and we of course the
state of las cruces is the applicant and
then they will have a presentation for
you
okay thank you thank you catherine good
evening madam chair commissioners my
name is felicia villegas i'm with
economic development
and as you may recall um staff and
consultants
were here late february at a work
session
and presented a draft of the west mesa
industrial park master plan and over
overlay um
per elevate las cruces policy um
this master plan and overlay
was to be adopted updated in order to
develop
strategies to stimulate business
development in the area
and um the the regulatory framework will
be brought forward at a future meeting
but we do have a consultant decker
parish
and sabatini which has taken your
previous comments and suggestions
as well as those from city staff and
other stakeholders
who finalize these documents and they
will be presenting a summary of the
master plan tonight
highlighting the major updates and
implementation strategies
so um today staff is requesting that the
planning and zoning
commission make a recommendation to city
council
on the updated plan and with that i'm i
will turn it over to will gleason
uh from decker parish and sabotini
i will are you on good evening
need to uh swear you in do you swear and
affirm the testimony you're about to
give is the truth and nothing but the
truth under penalty of law
i do thank you go ahead
thank you um and i have with me tonight
uh
dan gimon from economic and planning
systems and kate melissa's from deck of
paris sabatini so
you might want to swear them in two okay
um while i bought this
station so there we go okay
who are we swearing in first
dan dan okay do you swear and affirm the
testimony you're about to give is the
truth
and nothing but the truth under penalty
of law
i do okay and who's our last person
i'm kate melissa say that again
kate melissa kate melissa's
do you swear and affirm that testimony
you're about to give is the truth and
nothing but the truth under penalty of
law
i do thank you hey go ahead will
all right good evening um and so
we're uh happy to bring this back to you
um
and we just to to
clarify that question that was raised
earlier about why we're not
um also addressing the regulatory
framework we just have a few more issues
to work out with staff
so we uh catherine suggested and we
agreed it would be better to come back
to you
with the actual piece that's going to be
adopted as ordinance
at a subsequent meeting so that tonight
we'll focus on the master plan itself
and then
hopefully be back here next month with
the actual
regulatory piece of this so
um as you all are familiar we've been
working on this
for uh the better part of a year now
um and it really was a an economic
development-led
effort to revitalize the
west mesa industrial park and make it
more competitive
make it more competitive for jobs make
it more competitive
for the various business opportunities
that are
um that have merged in the last couple
years and that have been
there uh in the past decade so the park
is
has had some success and we're trying to
build on that success
and uh diversify the opportunities that
um
that the city and that residents can uh
take advantage of so um
and and we've and we part of our team
was
uh with economic and planning systems
dan gimon
to really use the the market analysis
that
tools that they have to understand where
the
the opportunities really lie with the
park and this built upon the market
street report
as dan will talk about
so these are our goals um and as you can
see we have updated
this is one of the the goals in the plan
was to
update the the name of the park and um
that has been officially adopted by the
city
and we have in the last couple months
integrated
that logo and that branding into this
document so that um
it is fresh and it is reflects
what the intent is for the part going
forward
so um and we've really worked a lot with
andy hume
along with um along with everyone in the
economic development department
to figure out how to make this work
better than it does now
um at the same time really promote
environmental and energy efficiency
i know that some of you have read about
uh
autonomous vehicles and this park is in
a good place in terms of its location
and its distance from the west coast to
be a hub
for um autonomous vehicle traffic on
i-10
we did quite a bit of public outreach we
did what we
what we were able to in the year of the
pandemic
this is the list of all the stakeholder
interviews that we did we start off with
a stakeholder
larger stakeholder meeting that was um
held virtually um and we got a lot of
good input
from all of these uh one-on-one
interviews that we did over the course
of several weeks
it really helped us understand the
competitive advantages
and the challenges the park has
vis-a-vis other organizations
other other competitor
industrial areas in in this state and in
texas
um and just understanding where they're
where they can build on and then we had
an open house
uh last month um in which we've got some
some very positive comments we've also
reached out to the state land office um
steve derrick was very complementary and
very encouraged by
the the new plan for the park
so i'm going to turn it over to dan
giemo i'm just going to talk a little
bit about the market
real estate analysis part of this plan
yeah thanks will um we as
as we'll mention we picked up um
on this project after a fairly
comprehensive economic
assessment and target industry study was
done by market street
uh ventures back in 2019 for the city
and one of the recommendations was to do
this master plan with the
to update the land use and to come up
with
a more specific
development strategy development and
implementation strategy for the project
so we started with doing a
market demand analysis for las cruces
within the context of the larger uh
economic region primarily dona anya
county
uh we projected demand for approximately
and 6 000 square feet of industrial
space per year over the next 20 years
which um uh equates to about 40 percent
of that regional total
with the bulk of the of the remaining
portion of it really concentrated in
the border region around santa teresa um
as a result of the demand for the las
cruces area
um it would require about 200 acres of
industrial land to
accommodate that projected growth and as
all of you know
there really aren't a lot of other sites
designated for industrial development
within the city
the park itself has adequate
ample adequate land to accommodate this
future demand
the park is about 1800 acres overall
it's about 500 acres of developed land
so this
somewhere between 1200 and 1300 acres of
vacant land that can be potentially
developed in the future
the market street report um
uh as i said assess the
the the strengths of the
existing economy the workforce
and identified three target industries
for future
development at the industrial park so
these three
high priority industries are somewhat
aspirational in the sense that they
they are the most desired development
for for development
um they are aerospace
aviation aerospace and defense and
primarily primarily uas
which stands for unmanned aircraft
systems
drones of various types value-added
agriculture
and advanced manufacturing is really
of those three categories only
a significant presence currently in the
value-added agricultural category the
other two
are are were defined based on the
the park and the and the city's
competitive position as as
opportunities for future development and
and much of
the marketing and and
the marketing and implementation focuses
on these three targeted industries
next slide at the same time it's still
important
for the city and the park to pursue
other industry sectors
in terms of its development because
those three
alone are not going to
address all of the economic development
needs of the city
there's there's still demand for
traditional general manufacturing
there's still demand for
logistics type uses in fact the
logistics sector of the industrial
market is the fastest growing one
and we would expect both of those
sectors to
also generate demand for development
within i keep wanting to say
w west mesa industrial park but i'll get
used to the new name here
i'll just call it lcip
um one of the recommendations that
that we made to be incorporated into the
master plan
was to to basically configure the park
into separate districts
so that different portions of the park
could be
could be tailored marketed uh directed
towards
the various sectors so that being
manufacturing
uh aviation aerospace um
and then evaluated agriculture the three
primary designations that we that we
collectively with dps decided to
designate within the master plan as well
as
a cluster of commercial development
around the interchange that
is more for commercial services that
would serve
both the industrial park as well as the
airport
so that's it that's incorporated into
the plan
um as we'll mention that there is also
in the master plan a strong sort of
implementation strategy
component of the project and the major
sort of focus foci of the implementation
plan
uh some of the some of the major
recommendations were to appoint
a full-time property and sales manager
to streamline the sales process at the
park
to develop target industry uh brochures
that are
that would be then incorporated into a
dedicated park website
uh to in both cases to really increase
the visibility
of the park and to provide the the data
and
and information that prospective
companies and entrepreneurs would be
looking for
and then to come up with a a branding
strategy for the park
um these these um
these additional points will be
developed a little more
uh specifically in the implementation
strategy component
that we will close that will close this
presentation
thanks will thanks dan so um
so this is the and i i know that you've
received this in your packet
um this is the master plan that um is
the subject of tonight's
review um i'm not going to go through it
page by page
but i'm sure you all have read a cover
to cover
in the last week um but you know i think
it has a lot of good information going
forward
for both the city and for uh
current users and potential tenants in
the park
um it's it's structured uh like many
master plans with
um addressing
existing conditions opportunities
constraints our process
for developing the master plan and um
then the actual land use framework
and implementation goals so
and that framework was really as was
what was
as as dan discussed is what was
informed by that market analysis so this
is the big change from
the um one of the big changes from the
existing
west mesa industrial park plan um
and that is that there is some more
specificity to where
uh to what you can do in different parts
of the park
so with within these districts there is
a lot of overlap in terms of
um industrial uses but there's
there's some targeted uses that you can
do in certain parts of the park that you
cannot do in other parts of the park
and the commercial uses are really
concentrated in that
area right around the interchange those
are the red parcels there
the purple are the areas that are
targeted for manufacturing
the green for value-added agriculture
and the yellow on the
on the north side for airport related
uses
so we did quite a few iterations of this
and
we um we refined this since we
were last before you um but i think this
helps both the city
and helps um people that want to
uh want to establish employment
uses in the park as to what this could
be in the future
and where they fit in within that
framework
um and then this is just the
illustrative version of that
showing what potential future build-out
could look like the orange being
existing structures and the white being
proposed or very very much conceptual
but to give a sense of what that
build-out could look like sometime in
the future
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and then this is our uh our strategic
matrix and our implementation plan and
we have a couple subsequent slides that
that will
um so you don't have to squint and
figure out what each of these lines are
saying
but generally we've broken into
short-term implementation goals and
long-term
implementation implementation goals here
some of which are already completed and
some of which
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will require significant capital
investment
so we try to do a mix of things that can
be accomplished
now and things that may require
um a more pressing need like uh like a
prospective tenant
um so some of these short-term
implementation priorities include
completing rocket drive here east to
crawford because
and we really targeted the parcels that
have the most
immediate development potential that
just need a little more access
they may already have utilities to them
and trying to figure out where the where
the uh the shortest path
to new uh development would be there
um and then the the management side i
believe cilicia is going to be uh
luring new tenants to the park um and
and devoting a good amount of our time
to this so
um i think that you have a really good
uh
a good person in place to really help uh
be
uh be kind of the the tip of the spear
in terms of
marketing and responding to inquiries
on the on the park um the branding as
we said we were well on our way on that
uh we need some new signage out of the
park and then the marketing the
marketing
of course can really help um to provide
timely information
and um and then really to partner with
some of the
industry groups to um to really elevate
the profile of the park and capitalize
on the momentum that we have now
so in the longer term there's more in
terms of
extension of roadways there's a
landscape
plan for crawford boulevard that we are
including in our recommendations to
help connect the airport to the to the
park itself
um there's some roundabouts and then
lastly um
we do have a proposal for a multi-tenant
spec building that
um the city would uh would invest in
and uh design and have built so
that's by far the most capital intensive
um recommendation here and
um i think you can build upon the
success
and decide if that's a good investment
for the city or not
so um our next steps are to uh hopefully
go to council
um really to make sure that we've
answered all your questions
um we hope to come back to you with the
part two the regulatory framework
and um also have that adopted by the by
the end of june
so um with that i will stand for
questions and turn it back over to
lisia
thank you will um just
just to follow up on that um as will
said some of
those implementation uh strategies have
already begun
city staff has uh procured a marketing
company
to develop a branding strategy so we're
waiting on that
we're looking at doing a site certified
program to better understand and to
market the shovel ready sites
for site selectors and
potential companies coming in
um we also what else i
trying to look at your goals here
does that help yes um and we are in
in talks with um the landscape
consultant
that did the airport to work on uh
initially some of the entrance uh to
improve the entrances
there at the park and we actually do
have a meeting this thursday with
um the consultants for the roadrunner
transit
they're going to be going over the
five-year plan
so i'm looking forward to that
discussion
on transportation
um i i don't know if griselda is on if
she wants to add anything
director of economic development
can you cover all the elements
we can't hear you there's something like
fluttering yeah
madam chair can you hear me that's much
better thank you
okay madam chair members of the
commission
i don't have anything else to add i
believe between
the three presentations all materials
have been covered
for this group thank you
okay um commissioners are we ready to
hear from commissioners now
this commissioner gordon all started off
thank you commissioner gordon can we
take down the screen feeling unless do
we need them
leave that up that's important all right
good can you put it back up well yes
thanks
okay that's that's sort of okay i like
the other one when it showed all the
different type of buildings and
everything
screen that's good yeah there you go
that's fine
all right one behind me
back up one okay
that's fine okay now these are just
observations
i'm just i'm just looking at these
things and i'm thinking about
for example i don't like to make a
parallel to anything but
my mind goes back to for example apodaca
park
the city has designated an area of land
which used to be the las cruces country
club
and they set up a plan a blueprint
for what the city would like to have in
there
now basically what you've done here is
the same thing you've set up
some type of a blueprint and it's not
certainly etched in stone
as to what you'd like to see based on
the different roads and the areas of
what you'd like to have
as being put in there by
by commercial industrial or whatever
now what happens for example if any one
of these particular areas where you have
designated something that isn't
going to be what someone would like to
have and would be willing to take a
chunk of land
and just cut out what you're planning
what does that do to the whole plan in
the sense that
now this sort of changes things a lot
do you understand yes uh madam chair
commissioner gordon
um i've never done a master plan that
didn't change and so
this is meant to be a framework and if
there's an opportunity
that seems like it fits with the with
the park and that the city's behind
we can change that and and the the
framework is meant to be
flexible so that we're not trying to say
you have to go
onto parcel x that
that there's a quite a bit of overlap in
terms of land uses
and it's trying to strike the right
balance between
between creating a more
organization than there is there now but
also
being able to respond to opportunity
okay i do understand that but i'm just
saying in my mind it's important because
something could come in and just change
your strength completely
just turn it upside down i would like to
think that this whole area can be
developed
to the point of where we could really do
something up here
all right my second item is
who's writing papers i don't know
someone's making a lot of noise
sounds like water okay
i'll tell you another thing that i
believe if page 73 and 74
there's just two pages here in this
whole proposal
that i believe is the key to the success
of the innovation industrial park if we
don't have
tremendous economic development here by
getting in people or companies or
industry that can do something that
really will take advantage of this land
and bring a lot of economic development
into the area
this thing will become a moot point and
nothing will ever happen
i don't know whether that economic
development has tried
like it says they're going to have a
website and they want to do advertising
but what i've read here it seems that
they have just sort of localized their
interests in surrounding areas has there
been any attempt just to get a feel
for what's out there in the rest of the
country perhaps maybe in california
nevada where there's a lot of
things that are moving out of there
because of taxation and a tremendous
amount of population the ability not to
move
to be able to entice somebody to come
here where we have
10 we have the railroad we have the
airports we're close to
everything and we have good weather we
have a lot of things to offer
i don't know if we are if that's
premature at this point
in order for economic development to get
a sense of feeling
as to where we can be with this because
without that
happening this thing just can't work
madam chair i believe other staff
members that um have had their hands
raised
um specifically griselda martinez and i
believe celicia may have had something
to add as well
okay i can't see that on my screen so
you want to just call on them catherine
that's fine griselda's had her hand up
for a while griselda
yes thank you catherine madam chair
commissioner
gordon um the first question um
addressing uh expanding on what will
already
answer on um when you talk about the
blueprint
the the major difference between this
plan
and the apodaca blueprint that you
reference to
is that the the defined goals
are within city owned land
apodaca blueprint uh it's a privately
owned
parcel and so the the city has
influence uh but not the final say on
that
uh within las cruces innovation
industrial park
we do have uh the ability to
make final decisions on what the uses of
the land
may be but as as will mention we are
aiming at opportunities and to utilize
the master plan as
the guiding tool for those opportunities
in terms of the the recruitment efforts
to the industrial park
we have um celicia touched on on a
couple of those
but um two years ago we actually
included in our messiah valley economic
development
uh partnership we have a uh an agreement
with them to do recruitment
for export-based jobs type of companies
and two years ago we actually added
deliverables
specific to the industrial park
and that has led to right now
we have four different leads
that are interested in locating at the
industrial park
plus a elita
project that was approved by city
council
a couple of weeks ago and so we expect
that that um that those
efforts will continue to lead
results um as alicia mentioned we are
launching
a marketing strategic planning
effort specific to the industrial park
for economic development purposes
and so we will utilize the materials
that come from that effort
into what you mentioned about national
efforts to
um to recruit and and build
excitement about the opportunities at
las cruces innovation
um you know in industrial park so um
we will definitely continue to work with
the airport
um as we have for instance on the
landscaping effort
um and continue to leverage upon the
opportunities uh and the targeted
industry's efforts
um for both of those physical assets
madam chair thank you gisella
i thank you more question
anybody else any other commissioners
that want to comment or ask
questions
commissioner thomas again this is
catherine for the record i i did want to
let you know that we do have an
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mr attendee schervanick from the public
who has had his hand up
i'm not quite sure if you're ready to
open it up to public discussion but i
did want to let you know so
you're unable to see the raised hands
all right okay thank you um well let's
see if we have any more commissioners
first and then we'll go to the public
any more commissioners with questions or
comments
no okay i have several questions
and comments um
so i was wondering uh generally we get a
prc
report and i know this went to the
economic development prc but we didn't
get a report
from them is there um anything from that
meeting that we need to know about
um i'm not aware of any specific reports
uh the presentation made to the edprc
was to provide an overview of the master
plan efforts
the action items from the prc were
specific
to the selection of the preferred logo
and the change of the name and
so after the economic development prc
meeting
the the two the same two action items
were taken to
city council in a work session um and
um that was that that was the
actionable um items
from from this master plan okay so
that's that's how that occurred thank
you
for that information um under strategic
goals you have
improve the improve the lcii image and
visibility
integrate lciip with the airport
leverage economic development
partnerships with movida
and the borderplex alliance um
last time we talked about the what's in
the
uh santa teresa border area
transportation the sabbat
plan and about how they discovered that
arizona texas and california all have
plans that work on
what we call the can mix corridor that
results in economic development planning
that goes all the way through the state
we're working with different groups to
try to get that plan
updated so i was wondering if
it could be partnerships with movida the
borderplex alliance and the development
of a canmex
corridor so that this
work if if we can get to that updating
that plan and
working on that statewide economic
development plan that you know this
this effort will be included
madam chair martinez for the record um
if i'm understanding uh correctly your
question is
whether or not uh we would be willing to
be participants in this planning effort
you're mentioning
yes you have it listed as leveraging
partnerships with those
with mevita and the borderplex alliance
and if the stabat program
gets updated there will be a
sort of county wide group to work on
that and so i'm
asking if we can include that
so that that would be something another
way for
to advertise and increase
efforts at this location
so for okay will
um i was going to say it seems fine to
add we can add that specific language
to the strategic goals and we can add it
to the implementation
table as well thank you
okay i have one other thing i'd like to
add there too
so i want to say that i sit on the
district workforce connections board
that's seven
counties in the southern southwestern
part of the state and i'm also part
as griselda is with the workforce talent
collaborative
and it's very clear to us that the
biggest problem
for these kinds of economic development
projects is the lack of a skilled
workforce
and this goes round and round and round
all the time
there are big things happening at the
state level in terms of how they might
reorganize
workforce development i found out in a
meeting today that we might have the
ability
to actually use some of the training
programs in el paseo they have some
really excellent
training programs we might be able to do
a plan that sits over the district
and so i would like to suggest that
another strategic goal
be the same language leverage
economic development partnerships but
say with local workforce development
programs
with that and i don't know if dr
martinez has anything to add to that
madam chair um if um
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i i would recommend for us to in the
previous
recommendation to just expand local
and regional partners for economic and
workforce development
if you would be a minimal to that
sure yeah as long as we get the
workforce development in there
okay so um along those same lines
um let me see where the rest of my notes
are here
um oh i know so so
of the three areas
that we picked um aviation aerospace and
defense
um well again as you know griselda the
workforce talent collaborative has
already done business
roundtables in that area and so
that's some information that probably
will be useful
no changes i just wanted to mention that
and when you get to the implementation
um you have
short term one to five years and
um you have hire a point hire or appoint
an lcip property manager
so again i'm concerned about the
workforce i'm concerned about
um understanding
what our workforce is like here for
example
at in santa teresa they have a very very
high
turnover sometimes some companies 50
percent
one of the companies down there region
recently
discovered that if they weren't quite so
strict about
being a little late or missing a day
once in a while
they could dramatically cut their
turnover
and that has to do with understanding
the workforce around here we have a lot
of
families with only one car several
people have to get to several different
places sometimes people don't always get
to work on time
sometimes the car breaks down they miss
a day
so would it be possible for this
property manager to maybe be called
the a project manager so it's a little
broader
kind of leadership there
that would you know include like we just
have said in the earlier part
um working with workforce people and in
blending that into the management of
this project
madam chair martinez for the record
actually that item um celicia villegas
is
is our point of contact
because the industrial park is one
element to the economic development
department
we work internally to ensure that the
like all the elements to um
supporting the growth of an existing
business there
or the relocation to a business
to the industrial park we work as a team
to ensure that each one of us is
bringing the
the peace that we are in charge of to
these bigger discussion so
um the the title
actually will um like internally
we are working with our human resources
um team to determine what
what title is most appropriate for the
job descriptions
but the i believe the objective of
number three
is to have a designated point of contact
coordinate all efforts related to the
industrial park
um and and serve as a liaison to
the rest of the resources so that that
was the vision behind
um that that specific uh
item so it sounds to me
like the person cecilia or whoever that
person turns out to be
actually is doing more than just
managing property
so that project manager
could be a better title because it would
make it easier for
all those things to be included
if that makes it a difference to
to um
to bring clarity we can we can
work on a different title sure
yeah i just think project manager is
more broad and
and you know we know that managing this
project is going to be a lot more than
just working
just managing the property i just want
to make sure we have a broad enough
vision here and the final thing is
to talk a lot about transportation
options but when we get to the
implementation for the
short term one to five years there's
nothing in that
that one to five years about
transportation options
developing transportation options to
bring workers to the park
and i know from working with the
companies in santa teresa that
near adjacent nearby affordable you know
workforce housing and transportation are
their two biggest
problems and we're currently working
with them
to provide bans to bring workers from
las cruces to
jobs in santa teresa with funding we got
from the legislature
so i would like to see in this short
term implementation something about the
transportation
because i think that's very important
and i don't know if you're already
working with enterprise
i know we've talked about that a couple
times
road runner is they're talking about
some micro
transit in another project
and that might be a good thing for this
area
um the south central regional transit
group
is using these vans
to santa teresa as a
jumping off point for you know what we
hope will be
a lot more van pools and carpools around
the county
to bring people to jobs so that would
that there are lots of
transportation options so i'm asking if
we could have something under the one to
five years about
developing transportation options
um madam chair that's that's that sounds
like a great suggestion to me
so um we will work with city staff
to uh craft that language and
and put it in the short term
okay so those are my three things the
project manager and the
transportation and the um adding the
the workforce development and
under the strategic goals are these
things
um catherine or robert that we need to
you do as amendments or can they
be just me accepted um on you know
sort of a handshake daddy work on this
madam chair this is catherine for the
record i would i would encourage you
to make those condition of of approval
um and that you would have to amend your
original motion
um that was made prior to this
discussion also wanted to point out that
he's been very patient
but um commissioner guerrero has his
hand up
and it appears he would like to add
something okay thank you
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yeah thank you um i didn't have my hand
up that long
uh just because as commissioner thomas
was speaking i was thinking of a couple
different things i'm like first of all i
think this i mean
it on paper it sounds like a great
project
um i share kind of some of the concerns
i think that commissioner gordon had
about like
because i i i remember um like the
apodaca part
uh situation um
you know even though it's a thing from
the past um i'm gonna kind of kind of
remember that and i i also kind of fear
that
you know what if this happens so my my
main concern has more with like the
branding and the marketing part of it
um i know you guys mentioned that uh
movida is gonna uh
as well be helping and you know you guys
are gonna have the website and you know
hopefully attract
uh some good attendance um but i was
just yeah i was just wondering maybe you
guys could go a little more in detail
you know like what efforts are being
done um do you guys have any preliminary
commitments from businesses
um because i mean this is going to be a
pretty big investment from
from the city so you know i think if if
we are going to move forward i think i
think we need to uh
you know we need to have more of a
guarantee that it's actually going to
work and it's not going to flock
so uh yeah that was my main question if
maybe you guys could
fill us in a little bit on the branding
and marketing plan
thank you anyone else
uh would you like me to address that
comment
sure man i'm terrible martinez for the
record uh commissioner guerrero
actually this the master plan as i
mentioned before
we see it as the guiding
road map for us to go step
by step for the marketing effort
um what we're doing right now is a small
uh contract for the planning
um and and then
as part of that we will receive
recommendations on how to best market
on the targeted industries that have
been identified
leveraging on the work that we have
started but really expanding
upon the opportunities to send the
message in a very
vocalized and intentional ways
for recruitment we currently don't have
any commitments from businesses other
than the leads that i mentioned before
um based as a result of the work that we
have started
um but it is important for
for additional context to
the work of the industrial park i um
as as it has been mentioned before the
master plan uh was done in the 90s
and it had it hadn't been updated uh in
that
in that term and so um
the industrial park actually was created
um with the vision to leverage upon the
the opportunities tied to the airport
and so we at this point um we have been
working
very intentionally for the last two
years to
revive that vision and to be very
intentional about
putting practices in place
um and so we we expect that
uh with all the late work that we have
done up to this point
um the growth is is um catalyzed
um to exponential growth i think we've
been doing a lot of
preparation up to this point and the
mass this master plan
would be the last pieces um that we
have in the works before we turn all of
our
efforts to to do that um
full force recruitment effort
okay thank you thank you very much
um i'm sorry i can't find the
hand here but i just wanted to um
thank you grisold i wanted to reiterate
um
uh some of the things she just said um
and with your concern like like on the
apodaca
as grievous zelda mentioned before um
that that is not city-owned property
and we have a big bulk of the
the land there at the industrial park
the city does
that that's a big difference because
we're able to
have a vetting process and we've begun
that
process we have had a letter of intent
on one
parcel and we're implementing measures
uh and what what economic development
goals are out there for say
the number of jobs we want to see
for a specific area and and to
be able to define those successes uh
out there um and i i think that
just having that amount of land and
being able to
have that vetting process is a big
difference
uh from what you'll see in the in
for say apodaca plan
so yeah absolutely thank you and i know
i mean i i
i know it's not the same as alparaka uh
you know different completely different
situation
um but uh i i really appreciate you
clarifying that
thank you thank you matt
yes andy hume uh with city staff also
has to stand up to speak
and then commissioner gordon has raised
his tent
okay andy good afternoon madam chair and
members of the commission my name is
andy hume i'm the airport administrator
with
las cruces international airport and i
really appreciate the thoughtfulness
and the conversation that's going on um
and i really appreciate the the the time
and energy that's gone into the
development of this plan um
one of the things that i want to point
out um in in response to some of the
uh the questions and concerns about
business development
um one of the things that i'm very proud
of at the airport is that
over the past three years or so we've
seen seven new businesses
locate uh either relocate from another
area or start up
at the airport now they're small
businesses we're talking one to seven
employees
but the fact that we've seen even the
last couple of years some of these small
businesses get going
i think shows the potential in our area
for
business growth uh we do have some other
businesses as
dr martinez mentioned that are
expressing interest
um we can't get into of course some of
the details on those
um uh some of the leads that were that
are being explored but
um suffice it to say the attention is
there
uh the attention from a wide variety
of sources certainly on the airport side
we're looking at aeronautical and
aerospace
types of companies um but uh the the
potential is there and i think that
uh seeing the renewed attention on the
city side
in planning and um investment in
infrastructure that we're seeing
both at the airport and in the
innovation industrial park is really
bringing attention to our area so
i wanted to share that with you all i
appreciate
the opportunity to share those comments
thank you andy i also want to comment
that andy hume
has brought great energy and ideas and
advancement to this city at the mpo and
and several years working with the
downtown and so
now that he's moved to the airport you
can see once again
how effective he can be so we appreciate
the work you're doing thank you very
much
thank you madam chair any other
commissioners
i think uh commissioner gordon what's
next
no i decided not to say anything thank
you
okay and then uh catherine you said
there was somebody
in the public an attendee that wanted to
speak
yes uh madam chair uh mr greg shervanick
uh attendance and does have
uh gregory schervanick get grace
schervanas okay
uh mr cervantes we need uh to swear you
in
fire yes madam chair go ahead yeah do
you swear and affirm the testimony
you're about to give is the truth and
nothing but the truth
under penalty of law yes i do
okay we welcome your comments uh yes uh
my comments are i attended the
march 8th public input
after that and i'm glad that andy humes
came on because
i contacted him concerning
whether or not testing of uvas
would be possible away from the airport
if an industry were to set up
that kind of a facility in part of the
park
he was kind enough to write me back and
he said
that he felt there would be plenty of
space for that kind of industry
following that conversation
with him councillor sorg
at the city council meeting in his
comment section made mention
that his sitting on the media board
there were several
not signed yet people interested in
the industries using uvas
out in the new industrial park i also
had since cannabis was not
legalized at this particular time during
the march meeting and after
i was just wondering if
the added value agricultural areas
would be possibly up and running and
would there be any potential
problems concerning zoning since
cannabis is now
legal but will be legally legal
next year in april and
dr mark i had also an email with dr
martinez concerning
some of those topics so i wish
commissioner gordon i believe there
is a a lot of interest now
four sections of that park um they're
just not
ready to sign on the dotted line and uh
i wish thank you for the time to put my
public input
thank you did you want a response to any
of that
um no it's basically fyi because oh well
i would like to
add one more thing um in the discussion
of
media and uh you were talking
uh sarah thomas you were talking about
uh working with the waterplex and mabida
movida is up for the el paso electric
20 million dollar funding source which
would mean
a million dollars each year and they
are probably the top applicant at this
particular time
they are not assured of it but if they
receive that from el paso electric as
the funding organization i believe you
will see
many more businesses coming to the table
so are you talking about funding nevita
in the work that they're already doing
but so that they can do more
same type um i'm
i would prefer dr martinez
or you to look at the
work session of monday of this week
uh to have details concerning that or
since you have connections with mr
hummer
that you might want to basically speak
to him directly but
the way my understanding is from the
work session
is el paso electric uh is offering
20 million over the next 20 years
uh and has taken applications already
media seems like a good fit for them as
the funding
organization and therefore they will
have
the ability to attract more
and fund more from that one million
dollars but
uh again i i would prefer that you get
the
correct details directly from uh mr
hummer or
from dr martinez well that sounds good
certainly you know they their uh
connection to
what's going on nationally and um
and and to um making
the people companies and people across
the country aware of what we have here
so that'd be great
um zelda did you want to add anything
yes manager um thank you mr chernovic um
just to elaborate on the comment on the
on the fund the el paso electric
was acquired last year
by a company and as a result of that
acquisition
they committed a million dollars
um for the next 20 years
to come to dona ana county
to support economic development the work
session that took place yesterday
was from jack hummer who explained
what type of projects they would be
supporting john hummer is one of one of
three board members who would be
deciding upon this funding
he mentioned that mabida had been an
applicant for the first round
but he did not disclaim any other
details in terms of
funding commitment or or others
this fund is supposed to be um
1 million per year and based on
my understanding is that there will be
some type of application um
on a on an annual basis uh for projects
to be
considered so just wanted to add that
that additional piece of information to
mr truvanic's
comments um thank you for that
clarification that's um we'll be looking
forward to hearing more about that
any more comments from commissioners or
from the public
okay i would like then to ask
for support from the other commissioners
that we approve this project
with conditions that we add to the
strategic
goals language about workforce and other
economic
projects and that we add to the
implementation matrix
for the first one to five years to
change
the property managers to project manager
and to add information about
transportation
options yes uh manager i will
uh move that motion forward that we
approve this with all the changes you
just mentioned
i don't have them in front of me as i
would list them all
close enough anyone else
discussion on these this suggestion
okay david where i think we might have
to have a vote then right
uh madam chair i'd recommend that you
get a second on your amendment
and then we we vote on the amendments
and then vote on the overall motion
this is commissioner bennett and i'll
second that thank you
okay i'll do madam chair this is david
where i'll do a roll call on the
amendment
thank you commissioner bennett
i vote your approve okay i don't believe
you need to provide any
justification either thank you
commissioner smith i vote to approve
commissioner guerrero uh i approve
commissioner vega
commissioner gordon i approve and
chair thomas yes thank you okay
so you have approval of your amendment
uh if you'd like i'll go ahead and
take the role to recommend approval of
the um
west excuse me the las cruces industrial
innovation
park master plan right now we're voting
on the initial motion
yeah thank you commissioner
commissioner smith i vote to approve
commissioner guerrero uh yes i will
approve as well
okay uh commissioner vega
i vote to approve commissioner gordon
and i approve
madam chair the planning zoning
commission has recommended
approval of this master plan to the city
council
thank you um so now we're down to number
four
las cruces innovation and industrial
park overlay
zone district regulations uh so this is
the regulatory framework
so catherine do you want to talk about
why you want to remove this or
whoever's appropriate absolutely
thank you commissioner um yes
so the staff has had several discussions
over the last couple weeks uh with the
consultants
and and uh well everybody's made a very
get all of the concerns um addressed
there were still some lingering issues
that we just want to work the kinks out
of
before we take the final version to you
we were more comfortable
in maybe spending another month looking
at those and refining those
and we're requesting that um the
this particular amendment be postponed
to a date to be determined we think that
will be next month we're fairly positive
that will be next month
uh but that's what we're requesting at
this point we would prefer to hold off
on a discussion of that
um until those those small kinks are
worked out
okay so can we handle that by just by
making a motion that we postpone it to
um a date to be determined
yes ma'am i believe that that would be
okay somebody want to make that motion
postpone number four we're losing you
it sounded like like commissioner smith
did uh make the motion
okay he did yeah is there a second
uh commissioner guerrero says i'm
awesome michael gonna second it
okay any discussion
okay can we have a vote madam chair
i'll take the vote for you this is on
the motion to table this to
a date to be determined commissioner
bennett okay
commissioner smith i approve
of paul solman uh commissioner guerrero
yes i am approved okay uh commissioner
vega
approved commissioner gordon yes
and chair thomas yes
okay so now we're to commission
commentary
anybody on the commission have um
comments
to make general things that are coming
up or
information you'd like to share
well i'll just repeat what i said
earlier that the south central regional
transit
district did get funding to start van
pools to take
workers to jobs in santa teresa and i
just got off the phone a little while
ago with david armijo who's the director
and he sees that as just setting up the
first
model so that they can orchestrate
random carpools to jobs you know lots of
places around the county so that would
include
this new industrial park so
i'll keep you informed on that
anything else okay
staff announcements madame chair this is
david weir i know larry
usually makes a few announcements so um
i won't go in to near the detail that he
does but
i know he always covers the uh
construction activity report with you
um just wanted to share with you that
we're continuing to see very robust
activity
and our permits are higher than they
were this time last year
and we don't see any change in that and
for in the foreseeable future
um just to keep you up to date on a
couple of projects that the department's
working on
uh one of the items is the land
development code
revisions we've had the kickoff meeting
with staff
and they are working on stakeholder
input and
meetings and so in may you as the plan
zoning commission members will be
invited to that the consultants are also
putting together a public
involvement plan and that includes
periodic updates to the planning zoning
commission and the proposal is to handle
that with
um joint meetings with the planning and
zoning commission
so uh at roughly on five month intervals
so you'll be in be kept up to date on
activities taking place with that
project
on the east lowman plan you had a very
uh successful joint meeting with the
planning zoning commission the
consultants are going back finishing
that plan
and they will be bringing that forward
to staff and then our
hope is that we get it to you for a
recommendation to city council in may
um just one last thing i wanted to share
with you
uh the city is working on adopting their
budget
um the budget that was proposed for the
community development department
includes continued implementation of
elevate las cruces
it concludes all the funding for the
development code
land development code update it includes
some funding for redevelopment
activities
specifically for the el paseo and south
solano corridors
and it also continues funding for active
transportation efforts so
with that i wanted to share that with
you and if you had any other comments
you wanted me to relate to larry
um i i want to add one more thing that i
forgot to talk about
um in a meeting with uh
workforce connections today
um their one stop operator said they're
just getting calls all the time about
uh from businesses that are expanding
that they're looking for people for jobs
that
even some fast food restaurants are
raising their
their hourly wage in order to get
workers so
there's a lot going on all of a sudden
so i i think that bodes well for this
industrial area as well
anything else from anybody else
okay i'll entertain a motion to adjourn
that's commissioner gordon i make a
message to adjourn
thank you is there a second
commissioner bennett no second emotion
okay if there's no no
nays coming then we are adjourned
thank you very much for everybody coming
in for a good discussion and
we appreciate your work have a good
evening
have a good evening everyone bye
everybody take care
good night