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City councilors to consider 562-home La Plata Ranch

Full story: Farmington Daily Times

City councilors could decide Tuesday whether to approve major parts of a proposal for a 562-home development on the city's west side.

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OSLIN

Albuquerque, NM

It would be helpful for the readers to include a map of the area in question with this story. No graphics department?

MoreCoffePlease

Albuquerque, NM

Coffee shop talk this morning is that Western will close their Bloomfield refinery in January.
Couple this with the pending layoffs at Four Corners Power Plant and BHP, where are the people going to come from to buy additional houses ?

distant local

Cortez, CO

just another example of the rich get richer, at the general populations expense-----

C Lee Nickel

Albuquerque, NM

MoreCoffePlease wrote:

Coffee shop talk this morning is that Western will close their Bloomfield refinery in January.
Couple this with the pending layoffs at Four Corners Power Plant and BHP, where are the people going to come from to buy additional houses ?

Looks like a true story:
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20091109-...

C Lee Nickel

Albuquerque, NM

Sorry about that, didn't realize that was a subscription service...

Here's another article about the closing of the Bloomfield plant:

http://www.yourindustrynews.com/western+refin...

in the know

Phoenix, AZ

Western refinery closed today. 200 people gone with the snap of a finger.

Concerned Citizen

Albuquerque, NM

If a company doesn't have the finances to build
this project themsselves, why does the city
have to spend millions of dollars and get involved?
This is a lot of homes for one area, which would
create traffic, utility, sewer problems, etc.
Has anyone checked the past performances of this
company and their financial status?

bill

Albuquerque, NM

I say noe to this, economy is down, would hurt housing prices

Oil poor

Durango, CO

So where will the shutdown of the Bloomfield refinery leave the local producers who need to sell their crude?

tax payer in NM

Albuquerque, NM

You got to say:NO: to this. It is no time to put out any money, that a bank or lone co, would not say yes to. we don't need to lay off any more city workers, or put on more taxes to help cover a loss. Things don't look to good down the road for the next year for SJC so lets get what needs to be done and not go looking for more at this time.

Answer

Albuquerque, NM

Oil poor wrote:

So where will the shutdown of the Bloomfield refinery leave the local producers who need to sell their crude?

Western will truck it out to Gallup - trucking will cost more.
Then gasoline, diesel, etc will have to be brought in from other sources - Western will raise prices for gasoline and diesel - they will charge as much more as they think they can get away with for they own most of all filling-stations.
The job losses will add to the already devastated economy, price increases will have a greater effect.
Farmington's Mayor, Manager and City Councilors will never learn - the people have had enough - It is Time for A TEA PARTY !!

AmIcrazy

Albuquerque, NM

'Developers asked the city to fund a road that would connect the La Plata Highway and Piñon Hills Boulevard, a bridge that would cross the La Plata Highway, a sewer line and other infrastructure'.
Pinon Hills Boulevard already has a bridge across the La Plata River and it connects to the La Plata highway. Another road would be a road to nowhere, yet another Rob Mayes bright idea in these times of citizen's greatest hardship !!

Just Say No

Las Cruces, NM

"Part four would LET the city participate in financing parts of the project."

What's in it for the city? Is this development even in the city? They want to hook up to the city sewer and they want US to fund it??? No, no, no.

Just Say No

Las Cruces, NM

Judged:

Build more houses at a time when people aren't buying houses and home values are dropping? Building more houses will glut the market and our home values will drop even more. No, no, no.

YouCannot

Albuquerque, NM

distant local wrote:

just another example of the rich get richer, at the general populations expense-----

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the tax payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting government hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's money and independence.
You cannot help people permanently by keeping them broke.

Lol R u Serious

Albuquerque, NM

sounds like a project for shity house and crime.. NO WAY anyways times r down right now no need to be building more homes for ppl who cant afford them..

Progress is good

Farmington, NM

No, let's just let people throw up more trashy trailers, tire heaps and oil wells. God forbid we actually do some planning for decent, zoned residential areas in this town. Let's keep doing things the way we always have as opposed to trying to raise this town to a more planned, organized and attractive level. Let's keep this town looking like a third-world country: the rich in the rich areas and the poor in the trailer shanty-towns living next to trash heaps.

InTheKnow

Albuquerque, NM

Absolutely NOT! There are more than enough properties for sale/foreclosed/short-sale that need to be moved. This is a horrible decision by the city. Give the millions of dollars this project will cost to the NM MFA program to help current owners and buyers get affordable housing in the homes that are already existing.

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