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Rio Rancho City Council Meeting - June 11, 2026: Bonds, Zoning, and MAC Expansion Approved

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DateThursday, June 11, 2026
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0:44

A couple of items of order.

0:46

Please silence all electronic devices while attending the governing body meeting.

0:50

For the record, I will announce the names of the governing body members.

0:53

When I say your name, please acknowledge your presence by saying present.

0:57

And just to acknowledge we do have several of our governing body members here virtually.

1:02

We'll start with Councillor Dabson.

1:04

Present.

1:05

Councilor Lennon Tine.

1:07

Present.

1:07

Counselor Tyler.

1:09

Present.

1:10

Counselor Culbreth has been excused.

1:13

Councilor List.

1:16

Present.

1:18

Thank you.

1:20

Today at five o'clock, the governing body met in a session, a closed session in accordance with section 10-15-1 H eight and SA 1978 meetings for the discussion for the purchase acquisition or disposal of real est real property or water rights by the public body to disclose the potential purchase of certain water rights by the city.

1:45

No action was taken at the session.

1:49

Moving on to the agenda item, I would like to propose to move the second item of the ordinance to the top of the agenda agenda to be heard following comments by counselors and public forum if there are no objections by the council.

2:08

All right, we will move on then.

2:10

We have no proclamations and awards of merit.

2:12

Move on to public forum.

2:15

Each comment will be limited to two minutes with no more than two hours in total to be allocated to the public forum comments at any hearing.

2:25

I have Mr.

2:26

Stephen Van Horn signed up to speak.

2:28

Mr.

2:28

Van Horn.

2:36

Good evening, Ms.

2:37

Mayor, Counselors.

2:39

I wanted to draw your attention to the consent calendar and say that I'm very pleased to see so many appointments and an attempt to fill boards and panels.

2:52

That is appreciated.

3:01

And I want to say publicly that I think this board is actually just a facade.

3:09

Years really.

4:50

Thank you, Mr.

4:51

Van Horn.

4:52

Next up, Mr.

4:53

Tom Dixon.

5:00

Hi, Counselors and Mayor.

5:01

I'm Tom Dixon.

5:02

I live on Dream Dancer here in Rio Rancho.

5:05

I'm just going to speak off the cuff tonight.

5:08

A little bit about there was some vandalism done to mailboxes on Dream Dancer and Cielo Grande just last week.

5:18

And I wanted to propose a theory to you.

5:22

And my theory is that what would motivate someone to break into these mailboxes with a crowbar?

5:31

And I can only think that they're seeking, if they're if they're a drug addict, they're seeking either money or checks or their daily drug habit, or they're seeking uh documents that'll produce that'll uh enable them to uh have identity theft.

5:50

Um those are my that's my main theory on this.

5:53

Um a little while, about five months ago, a little while back, about three months ago, Nighthawk and Cochapelle were vandalized in the same way.

6:02

It took five months to get them repaired.

6:06

Um what I'm hoping this council and mayor can do, um, and I I spoke to the police um not too long ago about this.

6:15

That uh I I'm aware that you can go online and report your observations, and I wear I'm aware that the police have their hands tied, and that it's the duty of the postmaster and the FBI to um investigate something like this.

6:29

But I'm asking if the police here in Real Rancho can step up their surveillance of that part of town, Dream Dancer, Cielo Grande, Nighthawk, Cochapelli, those streets that are getting vandalized very systematically uh with their post office because if the police can observe it, uh just something simple.

6:52

A camera did catch the perpetrator, but they couldn't identify him he was in a dark hoodie.

6:58

But maybe someone investigating this could find the timestamp on that camera.

7:04

Uh and you know, there's only two things that motivate a human being pleasure and pain.

7:08

Maybe that maybe the real rancho police can lower the pleasure and raise the pain on whoever is doing this.

7:15

Thank you very much for listening.

7:17

Thank you, Mr.

7:18

Dixon.

7:21

Moving on to counselor comments.

7:25

Do we have any comments by counselors?

7:32

Hearing none, I I have a couple of things I'd like to bring up.

7:35

Uh Mr.

7:36

Van Horn, you did bring up the issue of boards and commissions.

7:39

We've been making a an strong effort to bring in new candidates for boards and commissions.

7:47

It's never been the intent of this body to not replace folks on the boards and commissions, and in fact, we put a concerted effort out to get applicants in and have had very successful rates.

7:59

We're very carefully going through the applicants and making sure that those that are interested, first at the first and foremost, there's a seat for them.

8:07

Second, second of all, that they're qualified to do the work.

8:10

We are making good progress.

8:11

You will see some action on the public infrastructure advisory board.

8:16

Secondly, not and that's that's of course that's associated with the consent agenda.

8:22

Second issue I wanted to bring up is just to give the public an update on the D4 council counselor replacement.

8:30

That's my former seat.

8:32

We are in the process of interviewing folks for that seat.

8:36

We're coming down to the wire.

8:38

I'm hoping to have a decision made in the next couple of weeks of who to bring forward to the governing body who will make the ultimate decision on who sits in the district four seats.

8:48

So stay tuned.

8:49

But we are working on that.

8:51

Um that is all.

8:53

I have anything further from council, anything additional by council that anyone wants to add.

9:02

All right.

9:02

Then we will move on to, as I mentioned, we're gonna change the order of the agenda.

9:08

We're gonna go move on to second reading of ordinances.

9:12

This is ordinance item number 1406, ordinance authorizing the issuance and sale of City of Real Rancho, New Mexico, tax exempt general obligation improvement bonds series 2026, and the principal amount of 18 million dollars payable from ad velorum taxes levied on all taxable property within the city, levied without limit as to rate or amount, providing for the form, certain terms and conditions of the bonds, the manner of their execution, and the method of the security for payment thereof, delegating authority to each of the mayor, city manager, and city financial services director to determine the method of sale of the bonds and to determine the maturity dates and amounts, interest rates, prices, redemption, features, and other final terms of the bonds in an award certificate, and providing for other details concerning the bond.

10:09

Ms.

10:10

Yara.

10:12

Mr.

10:13

Mayor, Counselors, good evening.

10:14

Yes, this is the second reading of the ordinance for the 2026 geobond issuance.

10:23

Um approved the bonds in an amount of 18 million dollars.

10:28

Um these bonds do not result in a tax increase to the citizens of Rio Rancho.

10:34

Um the bonds will uh be split into three main categories based on the voting questions, about 12.4 million dollars will go to road projects, 4.4 million for public safety facilities, equipment and apparatuses, and 1.2 million for improving quality of life facilities.

10:58

Um these bonds will be so sold with a maturity of 20 years.

11:03

Um the interest rates uh per our latest benchmarks for municipal issuances is between 3.84 and 4.19%.

11:15

So we would expect a rate within that range.

11:18

Um we are looking to sell these bonds between June 24th and June 26th, depending on the scheduling um considerations.

11:32

Um the specific projects that these um funds will uh these bonds will fund are um included in your packet.

11:42

Um, and I stand for questions.

11:44

Thank you.

11:49

All right, thank you.

11:51

Turn on the mic.

11:52

Thank you, Director Yara.

11:54

Can I get a motion?

11:59

Can you give me the number?

12:03

What's the ordinance?

12:04

Oh, can I get a motion to approve item 14 ordinance 06?

12:10

Motion to approve uh item 1406, second.

12:18

Is anyone signed up for the from the public to speak?

12:21

No, Mr.

12:22

Mayor.

12:23

Any counselor discussion hearing none, call the roll, Miss Davis.

12:31

Thank you.

12:32

Counselor List.

12:34

Yes.

12:34

Counselor Dabson.

12:37

Yes, Councilor Tyler.

12:39

Yes.

12:40

Counselor Lennon Tyne?

12:41

Yes.

12:42

And Mayor Weimer.

12:43

Yes.

12:44

Thank you.

12:45

06 is approved.

12:48

Thank you, Miss Yaram.

12:50

Moving on to the consent calendar.

12:52

Can I get a motion to approve the consent calendar?

12:55

Motion to approve the consent calendar.

12:58

Second.

13:00

Any discussion?

13:03

Hearing none, to get a roll.

13:05

Thank you.

13:06

Counselor Tyler.

13:08

Yes.

13:09

Counselor Dabson.

13:11

Yes.

13:11

Counselor List.

13:13

Yes.

13:14

Mayor Weimer?

13:16

Yes.

13:16

Counselor Lynn Tyne.

13:18

Yes.

13:18

Thank you.

13:19

The consent calendar is approved.

13:22

All right.

13:22

Moving on to boards, commissions, and committee reports.

13:25

We have none this evening.

13:27

Next up, public hearings.

13:28

Anyone with a pecuniary interest on an item under public hearing and wishing to address the governing body shall register with the city clerk.

13:35

Each comment will be limited to two minutes.

13:38

This hearing will be handled in accordance with the rules and procedures.

13:42

Section 3.4 and strict strict decorum will be maintained.

13:46

First up is item 1007 ordinance of the City of Rio Rancho, New Mexico, amending the zoning classification of the official zone map for the property legally described as Unit 10, Block 33, Lot 98-A from R1, single Family Residential District to C1, Retail Commercial District, identified conditions of development, providing for several ability and an effective date.

14:17

Good evening, Mr.

14:18

Mayor, members of the governing body, Amy Rincone Directory Development Services.

14:22

So we actually received tonight a request from the applicant to postpone this item to the June 25th meeting out of an abundance of concern to make sure that they had enough people in attendance to review this item.

14:39

So with that, I uh would request a postponement to June 25th.

14:44

So we need a motion to postpone.

14:49

I move that we postpone.

14:56

Second.

14:58

Any discussion by council?

15:02

Hearing none.

15:03

Ms.

15:04

Davis.

15:05

Thank you.

15:05

Mayor Weimer.

15:07

Yes.

15:07

Councilor Tyler.

15:09

Yes.

15:10

Counselor Dabson.

15:12

Yes.

15:13

And Councilor Lennon Tyne.

15:16

Yes.

15:20

Motion is postponed.

15:21

Did we have a specific date?

15:23

June.

15:24

June 26th.

15:24

Okay.

15:25

Perfect.

15:25

25th.

15:26

Thank you.

15:27

All right, moving on to item 11, R 46.

15:33

Resolution adopting the Rancho Allegra Master Plan.

15:36

Director Rincon.

15:39

Good evening, Mr.

15:40

Mayor, members of the governing body.

15:42

So items number 11 and 12.

15:44

I'm going to present together.

15:45

They are two separate items that require two separate votes, but they are connected.

15:49

And so it's a little bit easier if I present them together.

15:53

So R 46 is the resolution adopting the Rancho Allegria master plan.

15:57

And then 08 is the ordinance for the associated zone map amendment that would take the properties which are zoned a combination of R1 and M1 and change that zoning to an R3.

16:14

So this is located south of south of Northern, and then west of Rainbow Boulevard.

16:24

And so this was, if you guys remember a few months back, the specific area plan for the rainbow area did come in, and so it did change the underlying land use.

19:23

Okay.

19:23

Thank you, Director Ncone.

19:26

So this is on item 07.

19:28

Can I get a motion?

19:31

Motion to approve 07.

19:37

Can I get a second?

19:40

Uh Mr.

19:40

Mayor, so this would actually, we would start with R 46, the resolution for the master plan.

19:50

I'm sorry, I read it.

19:51

I've read the one above.

19:52

I apologize.

19:52

R 46.

19:54

Councilor Lynentine.

19:57

Motion to approve R 46.

20:00

Second.

20:01

Okay.

20:02

We have a motion and a second.

20:05

And we have the applicant here.

20:06

Does the applicant wish to make a presentation?

20:08

Of course you do, Mr.

20:09

Strozier.

20:10

Yes, thank you.

20:16

All right.

20:17

Mayor and Counselors pleasure to be before you this evening to talk about this master plan and zone map amendment.

20:25

I'm gonna try and uh go through my presentation quickly.

20:29

And thank you to Ms.

20:30

Rincone and her staff for the work that they do in helping us get this item uh put together and and before you this evening forward I'll I'll do it.

20:55

Okay, perfect.

21:02

Yep, okay.

21:04

All right.

21:05

Um so for projects like this, it always takes a team of folks working on it.

21:12

Um so and and if some of several of those folks are here this evening um in the room, but uh our client uh clients Hulty Homes, uh Kevin Patton, and Brian Anderson.

21:27

Brian is here this evening.

21:29

Also a partner in this is Westway Homes, Mike Beats and JP Rail, um, and then our engineers on the project, uh Bohan and Houston and Yolanda Yolanda Padia Moyer Moyer is here.

21:44

We had a whole discussion about her name earlier, so I knew I was gonna mess that up.

21:49

Sorry.

21:50

Um you got in my head.

21:53

Um, and then Michael Wright is also here this evening.

21:57

He's uh part of our team at consensus planning working on this.

22:02

Um next slide.

22:05

Existing conditions as provided in the staff report and Ms.

22:11

Rincone's presentation.

22:13

We basically have a combination of R1 and M1 that make up this existing um zoning for this area.

22:21

Um most of the land is currently vacant.

22:25

Um, and that's uh I'll I'll speak to that a little bit.

22:29

But as Ms.

22:30

Rincone mentioned, there are three existing uh single family residences on the out parcels along the perimeter of the property.

22:40

Next as she mentioned, we did go through an amendment process to look at the northern and rainbow specific area plan, and you can see that that uh that change designated this portion of the of the plan area as medium density residential with a couple of pocket parks identified and um and that plan also includes um some guidelines for the employment area to the south that when that develops with non-residential uses, there are specific requirements for how that transition is treated in terms of setbacks, landscaping, and those things, and so that helps ensure uh good transition between the residential area that we're talking about with this master plan and future non-residential development that happens to the south.

23:38

And that was amended in November of 2025, and this is the second residential master plan to come forward since that plan was amended.

23:48

So it's nice to see some activity and and forward motion uh once that plan was amended.

23:55

Next slide.

23:57

Once again, the proposed zoning.

23:59

We're we're um asking for R3 to help implement that medium density residential that was identified in the uh amendment to the specific area plan.

24:13

Next okay, so the master plan once again we've got 66 and a quarter acres.

24:21

Um R3 got approximately 350.

24:25

I think we're at 352 with our current layout that we'll be uh proceeding with a preliminary plat to um to move forward, just under a thousand people we anticipate living here.

24:40

Um various community amenities, um, and the master plan document, which is this lovely report is is really what we're talking about that that summarizes the development parameters for this area.

24:56

Next slide.

25:00

Uh proceeding with a preliminary plat to move forward just under a thousand people we anticipate living here um various community amenities um and the master plan document which is this lovely report is is really what we're talking about that that summarizes the development parameters for this area next slide so once again the illustrative plan um calls for that lot layout there's some um key amenities once again we got two builders that are gonna be uh working in this area Pulti homes and Westway homes um so we're gonna have a variety of product types um that that are part of this this development this illustrative plan you can see some of the umscape areas the pocket parks we do have a pond located in the southwest corner and if you recall from that existing land use map that's where there is an existing business just to the south of this within the existing M1 area um to the to the south and that pond provides for a really nice buffer uh between that existing business and the and the new neighborhood um so that kind of describes the um the illustrative plan next um once again with we've got you know entry nice entries created off of both and designed off both rainbow and northern entry signage a couple of pocket parks with uh play equipment amenities picnic tables trellises those kind of things to really provide focal points for the neighborhood um as it develops we also have a number of traffic calming or mini traffic circles if you will designed at key intersections to slow that traffic down through the neighborhood and provide that is also an amenity at our pond we're gonna have a trail around that pond and we and a dog park associated with that as well so there'll be a little dog walk area um and fenced area for people to get in and try and turn that um drainage pond into a little bit of a community amenity so you can you can walk around there with your dogs on leash there'll be an off leash dog park associated with that area as well and so really trying to to um make it nice for the future residents within the within the neighborhood next and just in conclusion uh we agree with the staff report's findings and recommendations findings and conditions um both the planning and zoning board and staff have recommended approval this evening um we feel strongly that one of the key elements of this is it does implement that recently amended specific area plan and moves that forward follows the current DPM furthers the goals and policies of the Rio Rancho comprehensive plan and it is bringing additional housing that is needed um into the community and with that I'd be happy to answer any questions once again we have folks on our team uh that are here that uh that can also help answer questions uh if if needed and with that I really thank you for your time and attention this evening and appreciate your support thank you Mr.

28:16

Sturzer Miss Davis is there anyone else signed up from the public to speak uh no sir there is not do we have any counselor discussion on this item this is again our 46 for the master plan counselor Tyler yeah I have some struggles with this um I don't know that the current infrastructure around the development is supportive of the traffic that this is going to incur and then I do not like the parks within the community I think the parks need to be bigger I know that it's currently it says that is within walking distance of another park that's around the area I have some struggles with it based on those two things thank you thank you counselor Tyler anything further from council Mr.

29:13

Mayor Councillor Debson um I share a little bit of the struggles that um Bob Council Tyler's brought up um we already have some difficulties in this in both the intersections at northern and uh rainbow and southern at rainbow um but I also know that this is kind of inevitable so I I'm not going to try to stop it thank you thank you counselor Debson anything further from council Mr.

29:57

Mayor you may want to have Mr.

30:00

Strozer speak a little bit more on the parks and the infrastructure, because if not, um I'm I'm not in support of this.

30:05

Thank you, Counselor Tyler.

30:07

Mr.

30:07

Strozer.

30:08

Yes.

30:09

Um thank you.

30:10

Mr.

30:10

Mayor, uh counselors, counselor Tyler.

30:13

Um so there we have completed a traffic study.

30:18

It's gone back and forth with comments from uh city staff.

30:22

It was, I think the third, the third iteration has been turned into the city for the traffic study looking at the infrastructure and um and and the traffic uh conditions out there.

30:35

Um that traffic study once finalized will help inform the development agreement that will move forward with the city between the city and the developer that addresses some of those infrastructure issues.

30:50

I don't have specifics on what that's gonna be at this time.

30:54

Part of the process is that that development agreement typically is associated with the preliminary plat.

31:00

The detailed engineering occurs at that time, but we have completed the traffic study, we've addressed comments and gotten that back into the city.

31:11

Um with regard to the parks, um it is part of the city's process that proximate parks are included in the in the analysis.

31:22

I think that the what we've looked at very carefully is and I think provided those preliminary designs to make sure that those two pocket parks, primary pocket parks within the development are actually you know gonna be very usable and provide um that play infrastructure and gathering infrastructure for both kids and adults within the community.

31:48

Um again, as I mentioned, we are looking at that trying to make that pond area a little bit more of a of an opportunity with the trail and the dog park associated with that.

32:02

Those are also very popular items within um within the community typically, and um with the improvements to the pedestrian crossings at Rainbow and Northern, I think that are going to be part of what comes out of that traffic study and implementation recommendations that will be addressed in the development agreement.

32:26

I think we're gonna um see some significant improvements to those to that infrastructure as part of this project and will help address some of those concerns out there.

32:42

Thank you, Mr.

32:43

Strozer.

32:43

Mr.

32:44

Stroger, I mean to me personally, I worry about the infrastructure around the development.

32:50

Um I just I I have severe struggles with it, and I want to make sure that whatever we're putting in place is something that um the infrastructure can handle, law enforcement can handle, fire can handle, everyone can handle.

33:06

Um, and and I'm just not convinced that I'm there yet.

33:10

Um thank you, uh Counselor Tyler, Mr.

33:14

Mayor, Counselor Tyler.

33:16

I think and we we share those concerns, and that's why we're going through this this process and we'll be working with the city on the development agreement.

33:25

I do believe that the master plan we get initial communication and comments from the various city departments.

33:36

Um, but really where the rubber meets the road, so to speak, is with the preliminary plat and that process that goes through, and that's where the financial guarantees and the development agreement gets put in place to actually make sure that those infrastructure improvements are met.

33:55

This this project will be phased.

33:57

We anticipate the initial um access being off of rainbow and and sort of accessing the southeastern portion of the property, and then with the second uh access um to northern um making that connection through.

34:18

We we will be working with the fire department emergency services to make sure that we're meeting their needs in terms of uh getting in and out of the subdivision and making sure that when it's appropriate, that second access will be uh constructed and maintained to make sure that there's adequate uh access to the subdivision as it's developing phasing um forward.

34:47

So um I know this is sort of on that area, it's kind of on the fringe.

34:52

There's some development that's been taking place with some of the existing platted lots with single family homes.

35:00

Um and and we think that this project is actually going to be a real positive in terms of some of that additional infrastructure that's needed in this area.

35:11

Mr.

35:11

Strozer, can you pull up the map of the surrounding area and the roadways, please?

35:24

Zoom in on the intersections.

35:26

Let's talk about the traffic flow a little bit, make me feel better about this because right now I don't feel good.

35:39

Can you zoom in so we can see how the traffic flow where the entrances and exits are gonna be?

35:45

What do we got?

35:46

Maybe the master plan drawing I don't know, it's your presentation.

35:51

Yeah.

35:57

I think maybe that yes, I think that that drawing um on the screen, the closed captioning covers up part of the the southern end of this of the site.

36:09

But um, yeah, so the the initial access will be off of rainbow and improvements to rainbow boulevard.

36:20

Once again, um there was a master plan that was also recently approved for residential development to the south in the southern area of the specific area plan, and this um this project basically implements that um I think that's okay.

36:43

So, right there, that's fine.

36:44

So you have the those two exits, one on northern and one on rainbow.

36:48

And you say they're gonna be phased in.

36:49

Well, there's got to be two exits completely anyways, right?

36:52

When you're structured when you're building it, you can't just have one entrance and exit by fire.

36:56

So I don't know that you can have that because you have to have an additional one.

37:01

So is that gonna be implemented into your plan when you're when you're building this out, or what are we doing?

37:07

That's okay.

37:07

I'm gonna let uh Yolanda uh come up and and help answer this question with regard to the engineering and the process.

37:17

Mr.

37:17

Mayor, members of the government by five, if I may, um Mr.

37:20

Strozer and um Ms.

37:22

Pidia Moyer, if you could talk a little bit about the regional infrastructure.

37:26

I think that's if I'm hearing the counselor correctly.

37:29

I think that's the intent that in addition to the access of the neighborhood, traffic flows around northern rainbow, the regional infrastructure that would be um the access, the you know, to and from the neighborhood.

37:40

And and and on that Matt as well, and how that's gonna be controlled.

37:44

Are we gonna have traffic signals?

37:46

Oh, what are we looking at?

37:48

Sorry, um, Yolanda Moyer with Bohanning Houston.

37:51

I'm the engineer of record um on the project.

37:54

So like Mr.

37:56

Stroger indicated, we um do have a TIA that we have gone a number of rounds with the city on um comments and requirements.

38:07

Um, but ultimately it's a higher level framework of what things can happen.

38:13

The development agreement um when we go to preliminary plan, we'll ultimately decide on what those improvements are.

38:20

Um, and as you know, that will also come to the planning and zoning zoning um board to be approved.

38:27

Um so I know the key issues are northern is rainbow and northern and rainbow and southern.

38:33

Those two intersections are discussed in the TIA and there is options in there, but the development agreement again will dictate what the actual improvements are at those two intersections and into the site, just to be more specific.

38:50

We will have designated left turn lanes into the site to not impede flowing traffic, both northbound and westbound for those left turn movements.

39:01

So you help control that um impediment that that may happen.

39:07

So there's something more specific that I can help address.

39:13

What is the traffic control devices going to be used?

39:17

That's what I was saying.

39:18

That's there are options in the TING during the development agreement and the preliminary plat, those items will be more specifically discussed and decided.

39:30

Okay, well, and I'm not satisfied with it.

39:33

Thank you.

39:40

You still have the floor.

39:42

Counselor Tyler, are you done?

39:44

Yes, Mr.

39:45

Mayor, thank you.

39:47

Anything further from council.

39:51

I have a couple comments and maybe a question first for Director and Cohn.

39:56

We're hearing a little bit about and and I understand Councillor Tyler's concerns, but I think it's a timing issue.

40:02

And I'd like to kind of better understand what is typically detailed at this level of a master plan.

40:08

Because it's my understanding, and correct me if I'm wrong, that that level of detail is not defined at a master plan, it's defined at the next stage, which is typically preliminary plat.

40:19

Mr.

40:19

Mayor, that's correct.

40:20

Um so when we're looking at master plans, we're looking at um the large uh traffic flow.

40:27

But one of the things that we want to keep in mind at this scale is um and at this time with this application is that master plans can be in place for multiple years before a preliminary plat comes in.

40:37

So we don't want to get too far ahead of ourselves and have a TIA completely set in stone and and um as an example say that there won't be any traffic signals at the intersection or there won't be such and such things at at this time because what we want to do is when the preliminary plat comes in and what we expect when the preliminary plat comes in is to have that TIA and then to be able to say and look at the background traffic at that time, just in case if this preliminary uh this master plan gets approved and it sits for a year or two.

41:10

We don't want to be using old traffic counts and be beholden to those standards at that time.

41:15

We want to have the most fresh data that we have when that preliminary plat comes in.

41:19

Um and so uh we wait until the preliminary plat stage to have that finalized uh traffic impact analysis uh to be able to move through uh what we look at with those preliminary plats as well is is to make sure that once we have if we're plating for 30 houses in a phase, that there is um secondary access in and out.

41:39

Um and as was mentioned by the applicant, um we do have all of our reviewing agencies look at that.

41:45

So that would include uh the fire marshal's office and the police department uh to make sure that we have adequate access um in and out of the site as as they're moving through their phasing process.

41:55

I I hope that kind of helps what we look at um at for traffic uh a little bit further into the process.

42:03

It does.

42:03

Thank you.

42:04

Um Director Rencone.

42:06

Just to give us some thoughts on what that might look like.

42:09

Are we talking desail lanes?

42:11

Are we talking added lanes?

42:13

What what might or I know I'm asking you to kind of predict the future, but uh so um uh Mayor Weimer, so one of the things um that just based off of the conversation um that I've heard from the applicant, um, yes, there would be D sell lanes.

42:28

Um probably what's gonna happen as well uh with those D sell lanes um and depending on which parts of the city as they grow come online first.

42:38

Um there might be some expansions of rainbow.

42:41

There may be the need um that some of the access points become not full access points, but could become uh just write ins and write outs, um could become three quarters where where there's um just a left in and then a right in right out.

42:56

So there's um a lot of options on how to uh mitigate the traffic not just with um traffic traffic signalization, but but also um how the lanes are are uh created or constructed.

43:12

Thank you, uh Director Rencone.

43:15

From a timing standpoint, maybe this is a question for either Ms.

43:18

Moyer or Mr.

43:19

Stroger.

43:20

What are your thoughts on build-out first phase?

43:24

Um so anticipation of within the month, probably submitting for preliminary plat, um, and the first phase.

43:32

Um this is a six-phase development, so it could take a number of years for it to get built out, but the first phase is coming forward, and I believe that is 68 lots, and we will adhere to the fire requirements of a secondary access for emergency vehicles.

43:52

So assuming that that time frame is met, we will know fairly quickly what at least the first phase of those improvements looks like.

44:01

That's correct.

44:03

Thank you, Ms.

44:04

Moore.

44:05

And just to be clear, the first phase is the southeast corner, which is the access off of rainbow.

44:11

Um that will be the first major entry built.

44:17

Thank you, Ms.

44:18

Moyer.

44:18

Uh I wanted to add to as I look at the can you bring in a master plan back up, Director Rencone.

44:25

Yes, that I think so.

44:27

We we saw, I think it was at the last meeting meeting was the one before that.

44:32

An example of public parks that were provided that look nothing like this.

44:37

Um these in my mind are the definition of a park.

44:40

They have place structures.

44:41

Even the dog park that's a pond has a has a trail around it.

44:46

Amenities that I think while maybe not specifically defined by ordinance, are in fact what I would describe as a park with park type features.

44:57

So to that end I applaud the design and and the layout.

45:01

I like the the park locations, I like the amenities that are included.

45:05

And I think we can work through the infrastructure timing, which is pretty standard with a project like this.

45:13

So I personally like this project.

45:16

I like this layout.

45:17

So that's my uh two cents worth.

45:22

Are any other comments again?

45:23

This is on just the master plan from council.

45:27

Mr.

45:27

Mayor.

45:28

Councilman time.

45:29

I would like to say that since we amended um the whole process for this and kind of got clear standards.

45:36

Something that I think that we're seeing more of that that um I want to push back and warn against is it seems like we can break up parks to be in so many different areas.

45:45

Essentially, what we're doing is just anywhere where we couldn't put a house, so it's a a throwaway area, we just kind of put a park there, and then the accumulative acreage of all of that meets up to the standard.

45:55

And I agree with you that there's some structures on here which are very good, but you know, a lot of these kind of corner ones, they're they're gonna be smaller than what you think.

46:02

And so it's sort of just um they couldn't use it for anything else, and so we're just gonna turn the map green.

46:09

And so uh I just want to caution against that.

46:11

That I know I know we're trying to maximize, I under I totally understand that, uh, but it does trouble me when we're it seems like we break it apart so much that I don't know that you can some of these are going to be very usable for the stated uh purpose uh in this case, which is a park.

46:29

Um just something to think about as we start to go forward and develop you know these out that uh kind of uh a larger singular portion would be better than a bunch of pie slices.

46:40

Uh Mr.

46:40

Mayor, that's all I had.

46:41

Thank you.

46:42

Thank you, Councilman Time.

46:45

Mr.

46:46

Additional from Council, Mr.

46:47

Mayor, Councilor Tyler.

46:50

Um I think this is a an important project, but uh Councilor Leonantine said some really um key things there about those parks, and those are the things that I'm talking about.

46:59

It's concerning me.

47:01

So I would like to make a motion that we maybe postpone this until we get a little bit more um comfortable with this project, as far as I'm concerned, anyways.

47:09

If we want to move move forward with it, we'll move forward with it.

47:12

But um that might not be in the best interest of the client.

47:15

So um I would like to make a motion that we postpone until the next meeting, and uh I can get a little bit more comfortable with the um the idea, or we can move forward either way.

47:29

So, Ms.

47:29

Davis, we already have a motion on the table for approval.

47:34

Now, Councilor Tyler wants to amend that or see is that what I'm hearing, Counselor Tyler.

47:44

Yes.

47:47

So who is the maker of the motion?

47:57

Sir, we would need a date with which we are going to move forward with a postponement.

48:02

Let's make it to the but we have a motion on the table for approval.

48:08

Do we need to get that motion amended before we can okay?

48:12

So we just so we need a motion to and we hear we have a motion to amend from Councilor Tyler.

48:17

Do we have a date specific, Counselor Tyler?

48:19

Or we we can make it June 25th, the next governing body meeting.

48:25

Okay.

48:26

So we have a an amended motion on the floor.

48:29

Do we it's not amended?

48:31

It's just a motion to post.

48:32

Oh, it's I'm sorry, just the postponement.

48:34

You're right.

48:34

Ms.

48:35

Mr.

48:35

Mayor, if I could jump in and Councillor Lendentine.

48:37

Uh ask Mr.

48:38

Schoser.

48:39

Uh two weeks.

48:40

Can you do much with two weeks?

48:42

I mean, I know it's going to come up really fast if they're postponing just 14 days from now.

48:46

And uh that puts you in a hard spot, I bet.

48:49

Uh uh, Mr.

48:51

Mayor, Counselor Lennon Tine.

48:53

Uh obviously our our preference is to move this forward.

48:57

I think you know, as as Ms.

48:59

Rincone mentioned, I think that the level of detail and the and the appropriate uh presentation for the master plan.

49:09

I think we've I think we've met those standards and and obviously we would like to to move it forward.

49:16

Um as Ms.

49:19

Moyers mentioned, we are working on I want to make sure this point, this is not a speculative master plan.

49:26

We're working on the phase one preliminary plat.

49:30

Right now, we're working on we've we've developed the traffic study.

49:33

We are ready to proceed ahead as quickly as possible to get uh preliminary plat into the process, and so any delay obviously slows that down.

49:44

So our preference is not to.

49:46

We understand you all are the governing body, you get to make that decision, and we will abide by that decision.

50:00

I guess I I did want to make a just if I could a couple really quick points relative to some of the concerns that have been raised, and that is that the parks breaking them up into smaller parks actually works well with the phasing and the implementation so that we're actually able to bring those parks on at the appropriate time in coordination with the houses being built, and then on the overall traffic circulation, one of the key things that this specific area plan did was acknowledge the rainbow corridor overlay, which really is about protecting and improving access, the access points in and off of Rainbow Boulevard, which once again this plan helps to actually implement the city's goals for limiting those access points because right now you have a lot of existing lots that are all butt up against Rainbow Boulevard, and you can see where the existing houses have driveways, and that's what we're trying to avoid with the with that overlay.

50:55

And so we're helping to implement that from an overall circulation standpoint.

50:59

So sorry to deviate off of that, but I thought thank you for the mayor.

51:06

If the um applicant does not want me to extend that, then I can withdraw my motion.

51:16

So I'm at the will of the governing body and you, Mr.

51:19

Mayor.

51:22

So where are we at with the we've got a motion?

51:26

We got a motion for postponement.

51:29

Mr.

51:29

Mayor, members of the government body, if I may, and um would may invite uh deputy city manager here to chime in.

51:35

Um couple things.

51:37

I I we're Josh and Peter debating whether the motion has to be withdrawn before the motion uh before a motion uh to postpone.

51:46

So we'll get that clarified here in a second.

51:49

Um the given that we have four governing body members present, um and both the resolution and the subsequent item associated with this uh would need to pass uh with four a vote of four.

52:01

Um so I think that's a an important uh consideration.

52:05

I will pivot from there and then um turn to to the agent for the applicant.

52:11

Um I think one of the things we're hearing about the parks, and perhaps Mr.

52:16

Schrozer, you can expand on the size of the pocket parks that are here, and then I know you've already talked once about the the amenities.

52:24

Um as we work through the DPM process, and we work on the DPM for three years, and um uh director Rincohn, um, I think the word uh you know it was a lot of blood, sweat and tears.

52:37

I'll leave it I'll phrase it that way.

52:40

Um, and there's a lot of things that I think staff was trying to accomplish in what we would call quality development, but quality development um also to us we talks about the livability and the vibrance of a community 20 years down the road.

52:53

We see neighborhoods that have aged very well.

52:55

We see neighborhoods that haven't you know aged as well.

52:57

We see neighborhoods that it's very far to get to a park, and then we see other neighborhoods that have parks at kind of you know, in every in every turn.

53:05

It was the development community who asked to be able to aggregate up the park acreage across multiple locations rather than one single park.

53:16

Um we won't know how that works until we test it a few times, and I think one of the things, Mr.

53:21

Schrozer, I'm hearing from uh at least one of the members of the governing body is you know, you know, maybe not seeing you know on paper what that looks like when we see the built environment.

53:31

One of the things I like to talk to the governing body about is and even in staff is let's go drive neighborhoods as they get built out.

53:37

Remember what we saw two years ago on paper, let's go see how it was built out today.

53:42

I would um I appreciate what you said about phasing, but I maybe you could elaborate uh a little bit, be it today or at a subsequent meeting, um the the size and the acreage of the the private pocket parks, um, and then what does that do for walkability?

53:59

Um one of the the downfalls, and I I live in Cabazon, we have a very big park in Cabazon.

54:04

I live very close to it.

54:06

I have neighbors that live a mile and a half away from it.

54:08

It's walkable for me, it's not walkable for them.

54:12

Some of those neighborhoods, and there's one in specific that doesn't have a pocket park.

54:15

So they are within Cabazana Park Desert, even though they're a community that has several parks.

54:20

So I think that's something you know, as we grapple with things that are in the DPM, because I think we're going through some reflection, and one of them is the the park acreage.

54:29

So I will just leave that as a as a comment um whether that gets elaborated on today um by you, Mr.

54:35

Schrozer, or something that you take and address at a future meeting.

54:41

Well, thank you uh Mr.

54:43

Mr.

54:44

Manager.

54:45

Um I do think that it is part of part of the of the process and part of what went we went through with the DPM changes is yeah, there's you can make an argument for a a bigger central centrally located park, um, but but as um Mr.

55:00

Um I do think that it is part of part of the of the process and part of what went we went through with the DPM changes is yeah there's you can make an argument for a a bigger central centrally located park um but but as um mr geisel has mentioned sometimes you know there's kind of winners and losers in terms of the walkability to that park I think what the intent here with this master plan is that as those phases come online the various HOA tracks and pocket parks that those aren't just spaces on paper and and lots create tracks created with the plat but they're actually the improvements are made as part of those phases of development so that people have park amenities faster and more proximate to their house that gets developed as part of this project and so that's our goal with this is to really look at how we we we spent a lot of time looking and we went through a number of different gyrations trying to figure out where those parks would be best located and we actually refined that as we started thinking about the phasing and the implementation of the houses and the two different builders and how those would relate to each other so that people were uh within easy walking distance um we have a pond down the corner so that trail and dog park that ends up being not really following that rule but it was really trying to take that necessity and turn that into an amenity and looking at the ability to use those pocket parks to deliver not just they're not big open space open fields they're really amenity rich uh park locations that will serve the people that live right there around it and so that was the design intent of that and um once again you can sort of make a case for doing it differently but that's what we were trying to accomplish with this particular master plan in this layout and that ultimately gets defined more fully with the preliminary plat and the phasing thank you Mr.

57:05

Strozer so it seems like we've got procedural questions is that kind of where we're at the yes so Mr.

57:13

Mayor if we can ask Mr.

57:15

Lennon Time to amend his original motion to postpone instead of approve um and then we can vote on the postponement of the amended postponement counselor okay so I wasn't the one who originally asked to postpone but you have the original motion on the table okay all right gotcha very good okay um so then I would like to uh make a motion to postpone this item till the June 25th meeting second and so that is a motion to amend the original motion to postpone instead of approve correct correct thank you sir okay so we have a motion to postpone and a second so on the motion to postpone do we have any counselor comments hearing none wait wait wait counselor dabson I'm I'm a little bit confident that would make things more amenable to counselor Tyler I'm not sure what we're postponing for so if you can make that a little more clear to me I I would be willing to consider it anyway I don't understand this Mr.

58:53

Mayor Counselor Tyler yes Ms.

59:00

Murray go ahead did you ask for the floor no I did not okay okay so um counselor dapson is asking for clarification on what your expectations are counselor Tyler I would like to sit with and make sure that I understand the project the size of the parks um I can't really tell from that picture of what the size of the parks are I want to get comfortable with the surroundings of what our thought process is going forward I know it doesn't have to be brought forward today but I want to look at what the potential outcomes are when it comes to the infrastructure around this development those are the things that I want to do now if if we don't want to do it we can just go ahead with the vote I it either way I'm I'm trying to help out here a little bit but uh if that's not where we want to go I'm I'm good with it but I need to I need to get comfortable with it all right Mr Okay so we're back to the amended post the postponement okay um so at this point then I'll go ahead and call role thank you mayor weimer yes counselor Tyler yes counselor Lynnentne yes and counselor dabson yes thank you our forty six has been postponed

1:00:00

Okay.

1:00:02

Thank you.

1:00:04

Council.

1:00:05

Okay, so we're back to the amended post or the postponement.

1:00:12

Okay.

1:00:13

Um so at this point, then I'll go ahead and call roll.

1:00:16

Thank you.

1:00:16

Mayor Weimer.

1:00:17

Yes.

1:00:18

Councillor Tyler.

1:00:20

Yes.

1:00:20

Councillor Lennon Time.

1:00:22

Yes.

1:00:22

And Councillor Dabson.

1:00:24

Yes.

1:00:26

Thank you.

1:00:27

R 46 has been postponed until the June 25th meeting.

1:00:34

Okay, so moving on to next item item 1208, because it's tied to the previous item R 46.

1:00:43

Do we need it?

1:00:44

I'll make a motion, Mr.

1:00:45

Mayor, to postpone that item as well.

1:00:47

So we have a motion.

1:00:50

We have a motion on the table for postponing postponing up item 128.

1:00:59

To what date?

1:01:02

25th.

1:01:05

Do we have a second?

1:01:08

A second.

1:01:09

Motion and a second.

1:01:10

Do we have any counselor discussion?

1:01:13

No.

1:01:14

Hearing none, Miss Davis.

1:01:16

Thank you, sir.

1:01:17

Uh Councillor Bennentine.

1:01:20

Yes.

1:01:21

Councillor Dabson.

1:01:23

Yes.

1:01:23

Counselor Tyler.

1:01:25

Yes.

1:01:25

And Mayor Weimer.

1:01:27

Yes.

1:01:27

Thank you.

1:01:28

08 has been postponed until June 25th.

1:01:32

Okay.

1:01:33

We will see you guys in a couple weeks.

1:01:36

All right.

1:01:36

Next item up, item 13.09.

1:01:40

Ordinance of the City of Rio Rancho, New Mexico, amending the zoning classification and official zoning map for the property legal legally described as Lomo, Colorado.

1:01:49

Track P1CA, to add restaurants, bars, lounges, coffee slash tea rooms, delicatessens, and patio slash alfresco dining facilities as a permissive use to the SU special use for education, recreational and cultural uses zone designation, identifying conditions of development, providing for several ability, and an effective date.

1:02:17

Good evening, Mr.

1:02:18

Mayor and members of the governing body, Amy Rencohn, Director of Development Services.

1:02:22

So this item is for uh the MAC, which is located off of Loma, Colorado.

1:02:28

Um, and so this is um a very similar the same language actually that uh was brought forth uh previously for the um parcel to the north um to add on a set of uses that would allow for um as listed um on the uh title um so for um bars uh lounges coffee and tea rooms delicatessens and then uh patio alfresco dining facilities um and so um part of this um they do have an associated site plan so the area that is um highlighted in red would be where a bar would actually be located um the area in blue is some additional um areas that have been added to the Mac in general so um there is some outdoor turf there is some uh volleyball um located outdoor volleyball located as well um so uh this is a rendering of what that outside bar would look like and for this use again this is a uh similar use or the same exact use that we added to the SU of um previously to that parcel on the north um and again it would allow for those additional uses um and one of the things that I do want to note and is listed in your findings um as a condition of approval is even though tonight um if this was to be approved uh to add this use to the property um they would still as the the city is the underlying landowner um the property um leasee would have to work with the city to amend their lease um to allow for where that location of that bar would be or any type of future um alcohol sales um before they would be able to go through the state to work on uh receiving that alcohol license um and so the planning and zoning board did review this um zone map amendment and associated site plan at their meeting um on Tuesday and did recommend approval and with that I will stand for any questions oh and I'm sorry uh I should also mention that tonight there is um an associated item uh later in the agenda uh actually uh looking at amending that lease thank you director and come can I get a motion says on oh nine motion to approve oh nine second motion and a second is anyone public anyone sign up for the public to speak is Davis yes sir uh mr mcdermott is here to speak come forth mr mcdermott my name is Michael McDermott 438 Roha I really just signed up to speak just in case someone wanted to ask me questions so I'm I'm in support of it just so everyone knows so thank you thank you Mr McDermott appreciate it thanks for being here

1:05:00

Ms.

1:05:00

Davis.

1:05:01

Yes, sir.

1:05:02

Uh Mr.

1:05:02

McDermott is here to speak.

1:05:08

Come forth, Mr.

1:05:09

McDermott.

1:05:13

Hello, my name is Michael McDermott, 438 Sarah Roha.

1:05:16

I really just signed up to speak just in case someone wanted to ask me questions.

1:05:20

So I'm I'm in support of it just so everyone knows.

1:05:24

So thank you.

1:05:25

Thank you, Mr.

1:05:26

McDermott.

1:05:28

Appreciate it.

1:05:29

Thanks for being here.

1:05:31

Anyone else?

1:05:32

Mr.

1:05:32

Mayer.

1:05:32

Oh, Councillor Lennantine.

1:05:34

Mr.

1:05:34

McDermott, I uh believe this came 18, 24 months ago, and uh liked it then.

1:05:40

I like it now, so thanks for bringing it back.

1:05:42

And this looks like a pretty cool thing that you guys get going on.

1:05:45

Definitely something that's needed, I think, in our area, uh, especially for uh that volleyball portion.

1:05:50

So I think it's you've got a great concept behind it.

1:05:53

Uh we go to the Mac, we love it.

1:05:55

And so thanks for your uh continued contribution, adding to the city, uh city activities.

1:06:00

I feel like we're kind of light on activities for that age range that this would affect.

1:06:04

So I think it's a pretty cool project, and thanks for bringing it forward.

1:06:07

Thank you very much.

1:06:08

Thank you, Councillor.

1:06:10

We kind of jumped ahead to counselor discussion.

1:06:12

I guess we'll continue.

1:06:13

Any further counselor discussion?

1:06:16

Mr.

1:06:16

Mayor, Councilor Tyler.

1:06:19

Yeah, I I again I like this project.

1:06:21

Uh just Mike, I just hope you actually do it this time.

1:06:24

Come on now, let's go.

1:06:25

We're here back and forth.

1:06:26

Let's get it done this time.

1:06:27

So uh I think everyone's waiting for it, and everybody needs it, so I I support this item.

1:06:32

Thank you.

1:06:33

One thing I want to say to that actually is we actually have the same volleyball courts built already.

1:06:38

So we already have a couple phase we did that last year, and so this is kind of icing on the cake.

1:06:44

And another good thing is we are part or the plan with city approval is to um work with a local um brewery.

1:06:53

So keeping everything rearranged so focused.

1:06:56

So we have some partners with it now that'll help us get across the finish line this time.

1:07:00

Perfect.

1:07:01

Thanks, Mike.

1:07:05

Anything further, Counselor Tyler?

1:07:09

No, sir.

1:07:10

Anything further from council?

1:07:14

Hearing none.

1:07:16

Item 09.

1:07:17

Ms.

1:07:17

Davis.

1:07:19

Thank you, sir.

1:07:20

Councilor Lennantine.

1:07:21

Yes.

1:07:22

Counselor Dabson.

1:07:24

Yes.

1:07:25

Mayor Weimer?

1:07:26

Yes.

1:07:26

Counselor Taylor.

1:07:28

Yes.

1:07:32

All right, moving on to first reading of ordinances.

1:07:35

We have none.

1:07:37

Up for discussion and deliberation.

1:07:39

This is item 15 D20, approval of the second amendment to the substitute ground lease for 801 and 821 Loma Colorado Boulevard, the MAC to allow for expand uses in X including restaurants and beer wine service.

1:07:59

Mr.

1:08:00

City Manager, I understand this is your item.

1:08:02

Mr.

1:08:02

Mayor, members of the government body, yes.

1:08:04

I'm gonna go ahead and present the MAC.

1:08:06

I think it's the third time in my two careers at the City of Rear Rancher.

1:08:11

They've presented a MAC amendment.

1:08:13

I may have left to go to the state for the one in 2016 and left it for Keith to do, but I at least worked on it.

1:08:18

So just as uh Director Rincone mentioned, um, we have the two items here.

1:08:25

There's a zomap amendment and then an amendment to the to the land lease.

1:08:29

Um, and that's really what I have here in the first slide, and which was a paragraph that appeared towards the end of the ABM.

1:08:35

Uh it is important to note that the city has two unique and distinct roles in interacting with the MAC.

1:08:41

Um, first, the MAC is subject to the city's authority as a regulator for land use and other aspects of the city's code of ordinances.

1:08:47

And second, through the substitute ground lease, the city serves as the landlord to the MAC, aka the tenant, because the city owns the real property that is subject to the substitute uh ground lease.

1:08:58

So in this item, the city is acting as the landlord.

1:09:01

Um, and the item that you heard previously uh with the zone map amendment and the site plan, the city was there acting kind of its regulatory authority.

1:09:08

So two hats that seem to kind of get mixed.

1:09:11

Maybe think of it as a hat with two colors or two sides, left side, right side, maybe.

1:09:15

Um continue on uh some background.

1:09:20

The tenant, as described in the the lease.

1:09:22

I'm just gonna call it the lease.

1:09:23

AKA the MAC operates on 8.59 acres of city owned land via a low-cost LEDA ground lease.

1:09:30

Originally enacted in April 1995, amended in 2004, subsequently substituted in August of 2016, uh when the tenant acquired uh the facility.

1:09:43

That's when it became known as the substitute uh ground lease.

1:09:46

Um you'll see here the last bullet point also an early 2025.

1:09:51

That's a typo.

1:09:52

Um we had done an amendment, so it seems like every 10 years or so.

1:09:56

Originally this was envisioned, I think, as a 50 year uh lease every 10 years or so.

1:10:00

Every 10 years or so, uh, there has been a version of an amendment to adapt to the current the current times, business climate, business opportunities uh for the operator.

1:10:08

Um the city owns the subject property while the tenant owns and operates the building and the physical improvements.

1:10:14

The primary and original purpose of the ground lease was to provide cultural, recreational, sports related facilities and programming.

1:10:20

Uh the lease allows for ancillary services such as a pro shop and a snack snack bar.

1:10:25

So this is a kind of an evolution of those ancillary services.

1:10:29

And as I referenced, and it's come up under the zone map amendment in early 2025.

1:10:33

That's a typo on the screen.

1:10:35

Uh the tenant secured approval via zone map amendment and ground lease amendment to provide the requested use of um uh a bar, alcohol service, food service of expanded food and beer and wine service on a subdivided portion of the lot to the north of the building.

1:10:52

Uh the requested amendment to the ground lease.

1:10:54

Given the zone map amendment previously heard and approved, the ground lease amendment would uh would this ground lease a limit will allow for uh food, beer, and wine service uh you know, uh, you know, around uh the main building.

1:11:09

And I'll talk about that here with some site plans in a second.

1:11:12

Um the ground lease amendment provides for operating parameters for beer and wine service.

1:11:16

This is defined in the ground lease amendment as restricted alcohol service.

1:11:21

That establishes a designated service area on the exterior of the building to the south-southwest in the form of a tap room uh and an outdoor seating area.

1:11:30

Um the liquor license is not before us this evening, but my understanding is that they will be applying under the tap room provision of a liquor license and that in itself before the alcohol and beverage control uh uh board has uh limited parameters.

1:11:43

The service hours uh would be Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m.

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to 9 p.m.

1:11:48

Uh, Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m.

1:11:50

to 10 p.m.

1:11:51

And Sunday for those NFL football fans, uh 1030 uh to nine uh 9 p.m.

1:11:56

Um for football on Sunday.

1:11:58

Also provides for the ability for to apply for 12 special event celebration permits for beer and wine service inside the original building.

1:12:06

That's we defined it in this uh update of the original building since we have had some evolutions or elsewhere on the property.

1:12:13

Um by way of example, uh the UNM club hockey team played some home games at uh the MAC this year uh and you know, opportunity they pursued a special event permit for uh uh beer service during those games.

1:12:28

So one of these 12 would be something they could do there.

1:12:31

Um we've also added as it pertains uh in the lease in particular um, you know, the you know, the explicit language regarding the applicability of in compliance with city ordinances, specifically our noise and nuisance ordinances, um not to take anything away from the attorneys, but lots of times in agreements like this they say shall follow all laws.

1:12:52

Um state, you know, kind of these broad terms, and you know, we have these arguments with the attorneys, and I'm you know, they're like it's it addresses it by having this shall follow everything under the sun.

1:13:02

Um wanted to make specific reference for uh um you know for everybody's comfort level, things such as the noise or the nuisance ordinances rather than everything under the sun.

1:13:12

Um sorry, Josh.

1:13:13

We'll debate that more.

1:13:15

Um then also uh we provided um, and this was I think good work um from the city attorneys, and also in discussion uh with the tenant, um, the the provisions around administrative sanctions for um for violating the restricted alcohol services of $500 per notice.

1:13:31

This is not meant to be draconian, but it is meant to have a tool if we need to address something, because absent of this provision, the only other tool we'd have would be terminating the lease.

1:13:39

So through a warning process and having something in place, we could address if there are issues, we can address it through this type of administrative sanctions rather than the um nuclear option, which is much more costly and difficult for everyone involved rather than course corrections that may be needed.

1:13:55

Um but we are hopeful um that will never be the case.

1:13:59

Um this uh was in both your ABM packet, excuse me, your zone map amendment packet as well as the the ground lease.

1:14:06

This is a larger footprint site plan of the uh of the the property under lease up in the upper right where it's labeled 821.

1:14:15

That's what got subdivided.

1:14:17

You can see the existing building, and then uh kind of dial in, uh you can see the area, uh the soccer field that has been added, the turf field, um, the proposed location of the tap room, uh proposed uh pad site for future uh uh food service, etc.

1:14:32

And then that is this uh dials this in.

1:14:34

This is a um the north arrow is facing down, um, which is you know it's facing down.

1:14:41

So it's a you know, if this was a true site plan approval, um we may have a problem with the north arrow facing down, but that's uh another topic, I guess that Amy Um and I can uh can talk about later.

1:14:51

But you can see here uh what is the um the designed as the designated service area in the lease um aka consumption area, but you can see so the zoning allows in theory for anywhere on the property through the lease.

1:15:06

We are restricting how, when, and where, time place, and manner that the uh beer and wine service could take place, and that is in this designated service area.

1:15:15

Um it is too small for me to read about 3,000 square feet, plus a tap room of about um 320 square feet, and it's a a dual double decker of a container.

1:15:26

There was a picture of that actually in both uh both items.

1:15:30

Um, and also the Mac did a really good job of putting together a fact sheet.

1:15:34

Um, because I always say it's not your your daddy's Mac because they have evolved and they host so many other events and they have so many youth sports clubs and cultural clubs uh taking place there.

1:15:42

So they did a good job of summarizing the activity.

1:15:45

So you know it's a good thing to look at for everyone to refresh all the great activities that are they're happening there.

1:15:50

Couple other things that we have happening uh in this ground lease update in collaboration and and and appreciate the Mac.

1:15:58

They do many great things for the community.

1:15:59

One of the things they do is um part of the original lease, and I think they already go above and the uh above and beyond, but contractually committing to do uh more free hour free programming hours at the MAC for the benefits of the citizens of Rio Rancho.

1:16:14

So that's going from 150 to 240.

1:16:16

They're probably already exceeding this number of 240, but we are papering uh that commitment, so we appreciate them codifying that.

1:16:23

Um the next thing is uh, you know, um simple as this sounds, um, but just asking the Mac to make sure they call us twice a year, offer a meeting um, and provide documentation that they did offer this meeting, um principally to our parks and right department to say, hey, these are all the things we that we can do in partnership.

1:16:42

Um, our summer camps can go ice skating at the Mac rather than ice skating somewhere else.

1:16:47

Um simple thing, but it's just really asking them to uh um make sure we don't um get so busy that we don't um stop to take um you know to check in with one another.

1:16:57

We shift the reporting requirements of the substitute ground lease.

1:17:00

Currently, many of those reports we ask for them every six months to quarterly.

1:17:04

Doesn't seem like much, but um most of our other reporting on economic economic development related projects are quarterly.

1:17:11

Six months is just a weird cadence, so we're uh aligning it with others.

1:17:15

Um and then updates the permissible uses to include a more comprehensive and extensive set of cultural, educational, fitness, and leisure and fill them, fill in through.

1:17:26

Come on, Josh, help me out.

1:17:27

Um this is an attorney word that was added recreational and sporting activities uh to a more comprehensive and except to a more to add for a more comprehensive and extensive set of activities that are reflective of the current and potential future uses that are there.

1:17:41

Um and then also we want to uh partner uh with the tenant uh to look at opportunities uh for uh utility and energy and energy efficiency upgrades to the facility to help lower their operating cost um down the road.

1:17:55

So with that, um Mr.

1:17:57

Mayor, members of the governing body, thank you uh for the presentation uh opportunity to present, thank you for the opportunity to come after Amy because I think it was important for the zone map amendment to go first.

1:18:06

Um and just like what to reiterate that um this does have a staff recommendation of approval.

1:18:12

Thank you.

1:18:13

Thank you, Mr.

1:18:14

City Manager.

1:18:16

So is this discussion deliberation?

1:18:18

Do we still need a motion?

1:18:20

Okay.

1:18:20

Can I get a motion on D 20?

1:18:24

Motion to approve D20.

1:18:26

Second.

1:18:27

Motion and a second.

1:18:28

Is there anyone from the public that is here to sign up to speak, Miss Davis?

1:18:32

Um Mr.

1:18:33

McDermott is available for questions.

1:18:36

Any counselor discussion on this item.

1:18:42

Hearing none, call the roll.

1:18:44

Thank you.

1:18:45

Councillor Dabson.

1:18:47

Yes.

1:18:48

Mayor Weimer.

1:18:49

Yes.

1:18:50

Councilor Tyler.

1:18:51

Yes.

1:18:52

And Councillor Lennon Tyne.

1:18:54

Yes.

1:18:54

Thank you.

1:18:54

D twenty is approved.

1:18:59

Thank you.

1:18:59

That concludes our regularly scheduled meeting for this evening, Mr.

1:19:04

City Manager.

1:19:06

Mr.

1:19:06

Mayor, members of the governing body, uh if I may, just a couple quick updates.

1:19:11

Um Saturday, June 20th, from 10 a.m.

1:19:17

to 2 p.m.

1:19:17

at Haynes Park.

1:19:19

Uh, the city will be hosting its I guess fourth annual June, fourth or fifth uh Juneteenth Freedom Day event.

1:19:28

Again, that is at uh Haynes Park uh from June 20th from 10 a.m.

1:19:32

to 2 p.m.

1:19:34

Also an observance of the federal holiday, the Juneteenth Federal Holiday, city facilities, except for outdoor pools.

1:19:42

Um it's a very important exception because we all get a chance to go swimming, will be closed on Friday, uh June 19th.

1:19:48

That is a week from tomorrow.

1:20:00

Um, also, I'd just like to uh highlight um some news that our uh the Rio Rancho Police Department has pushed out via um press release, city website, and social media, and there has been some media coverage on this, but just in this form, I'd also like to uh highlight that um three uh uh uh camera uh camera speed detection devices, speed tower speed cameras, um whatever you want to call them, will start to be deployed starting June 15th on New Mexico 528.

1:20:21

Um the approval for these cameras going on 528, or the idea then approval was in partnership with the New Mexico DOT, the New Mexico Department of Transportation actually encouraged the city uh to apply uh to add these um the this automated speed enforcement to 528 as part of their broader plans uh for addressing safety concerns along the 528 corridor.

1:20:45

Um we've heard a lot about uh concerns particularly around 528 and Pasea.

1:20:49

Um so we received approval um from the DOT uh to deploy those cameras.

1:20:54

So they'll uh start to be out there uh next Monday.

1:20:58

Um there's been a lot of media coverage on this, but thought I would highlight it here as well.

1:21:02

Um also like to highlight that uh um for these three cameras, um, we are um these will be in a uh uh a red color um that uh we did given the uh looking at the the the configuration of the roadway.

1:21:17

Um we wanted to uh uh try out that color um as well as part of the uh part of the system.

1:21:22

So with that, Mr.

1:21:23

Mayor, members of the governing body, um I stand for questions.

1:21:27

Thank you, Mr.

1:21:27

City Manager.

1:21:28

Any questions for Mr.

1:21:30

Eisel?

1:21:32

Hearing none, we are adjourned.

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Summary of Proceedings

Rio Rancho City Council Meeting - June 11, 2026

The Rio Rancho Governing Body met on June 11, 2026, at 1:00 PM (session). Key actions included approval of an $18 million general obligation bond, postponement of a master plan for the Rancho Allegra development, and approval of zoning and lease amendments for the MAC facility to allow expanded food and alcohol service. The meeting began with a closed session (5:00 PM) to discuss water rights acquisition; no action was taken. Public comments addressed board appointments and neighborhood mailbox vandalism.

Consent Calendar

  • Approved a consent calendar that included routine appointments and minor items. No further details were provided on specific consent items.

Public Comments & Testimony

  • Stephen Van Horn expressed support for efforts to fill boards and commissions but characterized the current board as a "facade."
  • Tom Dixon (resident on Dream Dancer) reported mailbox vandalism in his neighborhood and urged the Rio Rancho Police to increase surveillance. He suggested that only two motivations drive such crimes (pleasure/pain) and that police could deter perpetrators.

Discussion Items

  • Ordinance 1406 – General Obligation Improvement Bonds, Series 2026: Second reading of an ordinance authorizing issuance of $18 million in tax-exempt bonds payable from property taxes without a rate increase. Financial Services Director Yara explained funds would be split: ~$12.4M for road projects, $4.4M for public safety facilities/equipment, $1.2M for quality-of-life facilities. Bonds will have 20-year maturity, estimated interest rate 3.84–4.19%, and will be sold between June 24–26, 2026. Approved unanimously (5–0).
  • Items R46 and 08 – Rancho Allegra Master Plan & Zone Map Amendment: Presented by applicant Mr. Strozier (Consensus Planning) for a 66.25-acre development with up to 352 residential units (R3 zoning) off Northern and Rainbow Boulevards. Councilor Tyler expressed concerns about traffic infrastructure (intersections at Northern/Rainbow and Southern/Rainbow) and size of pocket parks. Councilor Lennon Tine warned against breaking parks into small, unusable pieces. After discussion, a motion to approve was amended to postpone the item to the June 25th meeting, which passed unanimously (4–0). The linked zone map amendment (Item 08) was also postponed.
  • Item 1007 – Zoning Amendment (R1 to C1): Applicant requested postponement to June 25th to ensure adequate attendance. Unanimously postponed.
  • Item 13.09 – Zoning Amendment for MAC (801 & 821 Loma Colorado): Director Rincon presented a proposal to add restaurants, bars, lounges, and patio dining as permissive uses to the existing Special Use (SU) zone at the MAC. A site plan showed a bar location and outdoor volleyball courts. Public speaker Michael McDermott voiced support. Council favored the project. Approved unanimously.
  • Item D20 – Second Amendment to MAC Ground Lease: City Manager provided details allowing restricted alcohol service (beer/wine) in a designated outdoor area (tap room and seating) near the MAC building. Additional terms: increase in free community programming hours from 150 to 240 annually, semi-annual coordination meetings with Parks & Rec, and administrative sanctions for violations. Approved unanimously.

Key Outcomes

  • Ordinance 1406 (GO Bonds): Approved 5–0. Bonds to be sold June 24–26, 2026.
  • Rancho Allegra Master Plan (R46) & Zone Map Amendment (08): Postponed to June 25, 2026 meeting.
  • Item 1007 (R1 to C1): Postponed to June 25, 2026 meeting.
  • Item 13.09 (MAC Zoning): Approved unanimously.
  • Item D20 (MAC Lease Amendment): Approved unanimously.
  • Additional Announcements: City Manager noted Juneteenth event on June 20 at Haynes Park (10 AM–2 PM) and closure of city facilities on June 19 (except pools). Also announced deployment of three speed cameras on NM 528 starting June 15.

Meeting Transcript

A couple of items of order. Please silence all electronic devices while attending the governing body meeting. For the record, I will announce the names of the governing body members. When I say your name, please acknowledge your presence by saying present. And just to acknowledge we do have several of our governing body members here virtually. We'll start with Councillor Dabson. Present. Councilor Lennon Tine. Present. Counselor Tyler. Present. Counselor Culbreth has been excused. Councilor List. Present. Thank you. Today at five o'clock, the governing body met in a session, a closed session in accordance with section 10-15-1 H eight and SA 1978 meetings for the discussion for the purchase acquisition or disposal of real est real property or water rights by the public body to disclose the potential purchase of certain water rights by the city. No action was taken at the session. Moving on to the agenda item, I would like to propose to move the second item of the ordinance to the top of the agenda agenda to be heard following comments by counselors and public forum if there are no objections by the council. All right, we will move on then. We have no proclamations and awards of merit. Move on to public forum. Each comment will be limited to two minutes with no more than two hours in total to be allocated to the public forum comments at any hearing. I have Mr. Stephen Van Horn signed up to speak. Mr. Van Horn. Good evening, Ms. Mayor, Counselors. I wanted to draw your attention to the consent calendar and say that I'm very pleased to see so many appointments and an attempt to fill boards and panels. That is appreciated. And I want to say publicly that I think this board is actually just a facade. Years really. Thank you, Mr. Van Horn. Next up, Mr. Tom Dixon. Hi, Counselors and Mayor. I'm Tom Dixon. I live on Dream Dancer here in Rio Rancho. I'm just going to speak off the cuff tonight. A little bit about there was some vandalism done to mailboxes on Dream Dancer and Cielo Grande just last week. And I wanted to propose a theory to you. And my theory is that what would motivate someone to break into these mailboxes with a crowbar? And I can only think that they're seeking, if they're if they're a drug addict, they're seeking either money or checks or their daily drug habit, or they're seeking uh documents that'll produce that'll uh enable them to uh have identity theft. Um those are my that's my main theory on this. Um a little while, about five months ago, a little while back, about three months ago, Nighthawk and Cochapelle were vandalized in the same way. It took five months to get them repaired. Um what I'm hoping this council and mayor can do, um, and I I spoke to the police um not too long ago about this. That uh I I'm aware that you can go online and report your observations, and I wear I'm aware that the police have their hands tied, and that it's the duty of the postmaster and the FBI to um investigate something like this. But I'm asking if the police here in Real Rancho can step up their surveillance of that part of town, Dream Dancer, Cielo Grande, Nighthawk, Cochapelli, those streets that are getting vandalized very systematically uh with their post office because if the police can observe it, uh just something simple.

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