Design Guidelines Submitted by the

Valley Community Preservation Commission

to New Mexico State Highway and Transportation Department


(VCPC's consultant Walter Kulash)

--Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin Lopez Rinehart, Inc.--

 

In response to your request for additional information in one area of refinement (frontage and access road opportunities), we are providing a more comprehensive listing of guidelines that deal with not only that one issue (access), but with the full scope of refinements that address our three major concerns; specifically, that the road's design:

   1.    Fix the safety problems.
   2.    Improve the value of the surrounding community.
   3.    Repair the damage done by the last road rebuilding.

Guidelines for design refinements that address these concerns are as follows:

A. FIX SAFETY PROBLEMS

   1. Improve Safety at Access Points

   2. Improve Safety for Through Vehicles on US 70

B. IMPROVE THE VALUE OF THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITY

   3. Build Village Centers

   4. Bring Valley Qualities to Users of US 70

   5. Make Valley a Better Eco-tourism Destination

C. REPAIR DAMAGE DONE BY LAST ROAD REBUILDING

   6. Repair Landscape along Existing US 70

   7. Shield Valley from Noise and Headlight Glare -- Guideline: reduce noise and glare levels from existing US 70. Actions: low, aesthetically pleasing noise barriers; low vegetation; pavement surface.

   8. Restore Acequias -- Guideline: full restoration of pre-US 70 network, or equivalent mileage where restoration is physically impossible; planting/replanting of acequias in traditional manner.

   9. Repair Damage from Existing Road Fill -- Guideline: mitigate, to modern standards of community value, the impact of the existing road fill on adjacent properties. Actions: new, more appealing connecting roads (see part A); moving structures; repairing acequias (above); restoring vegetation; restoring historic fabric and connections.

   10. Restore Continuity of Old Road -- Guideline: make longer distance (2-5) mile travel possible on continuous segments of the old road. Actions: (See Part A).

 

Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin Lopez Rinehart, Inc.




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