Nob Hill Neighborhood Association, Inc.

PO Box 4875, Albuquerque, NM 87196                                  TheBoard@NobHill-NM.com

February 26, 2020

Mayor Keller and Council President Davis,

Council recently approved a workforce housing fund grant for the proposed Santana apartment project. Yesterday our association held a special meeting of the membership at which a quorum was present and adopted this statement of position.

We have participated in two facilitated meetings with Thomas Development. In many instances their responses to the meeting minutes have not addressed our input or have been vague, leaving us with unanswered questions and grave concerns about the eventual safe successful operation of the project.

The workforce housing grant contains conditions. We ask CABQ to regularly publish status of compliance with those conditions and conditions of any other public financing instruments and notify adjoining neighborhood associations and coalitions of findings.

Because this is the third large apartment project in a 5 block area we urge Planning to require a comprehensive traffic study, to make the findings public, and to carefully scrutinize them to avoid serious negative impacts.

CPO-8 requires neighborhood edge protection; 3-4(I)(4)(c) Neighborhood Edges… …2. For properties fronting the south side of Copper Avenue between Graceland Drive and San Mateo Boulevard, the maximum building height shall be as follows: a. For any portion of a building within 50 feet from the property line abutting Copper Avenue: 45 feet.  We note that this refers to maximum building height for the northerly 50 feet of the project site.

We support locating the leasing office, business center, and other ground floor amenities on Central Ave. CPO-8 requires that ground floor facades facing Central Ave. appear as shop fronts, have minimum glazing, openings every 40 ft., façade change every 40 ft. and others. We would expect Planning to scrutinize the project submittal closely in these respects.

With serious concern,

(signed)

The Board of Directors

By Gary Eyster, President