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Alamogordo planner outlines subdivisions and new businesses as state now issues building permits
Summary
City planner told commissioners the Construction Industries Division is issuing building permits for the city after the municipal building department was dissolved; Planning and Zoning reported multiple subdivisions, business registrations and address assignments during the current fiscal year.
Stella, Alamogordo’s city planner, told commissioners Tuesday that the city’s Planning and Zoning department processed several hundred land-use and business items this fiscal year and that building permits are now issued by the state Construction Industries Division after the city’s building department closed in February.
Stella said the Planning and Zoning office logged 224 zoning-compliance applications and 117 business prerequisites since July 1, and assigned 393 new addresses this fiscal year. The department remains responsible for zoning compliance even though building permits are issued by the Construction Industries Division; Stella said contractors must obtain zoning approval from the city before they apply for state-issued building permits.
She reported three subdivisions in progress: a Phase 1 infrastructure installation for a 47-lot single-family development, another subdivision with plans under review for 30 single-family lots, and a North White Sands Boulevard subdivision of seven commercial lots. Stella listed several commercial projects in development, including Murphy’s on North White Sands and at Fairgrounds, Love’s Truck Center (with a Whataburger), a new Sonic on South White Sands Boulevard, a Take 5 oil-change, a plasma center on North White Sands and an in-store Der Wienerschnitzel at the Walmart location. She also said two apartment complexes and a seven-duplex project are in various review stages.
Stella described the department’s review process: staff intake of applications, meetings with contractors and property owners, Technical Review Committee (TRC) coordination with public-safety, utilities and on-call engineers, and public-notice and 200-foot property-owner mailings for matters that require commission action. She said the department is preparing zoning-code updates and other rule rewrites for commission consideration in the near term.
Commissioners did not take any action on the matters presented; staff said specific development approvals will return to the agenda as discrete items when required by state notice and city code.
