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Planning commission approves Education Retirement Board development plan at 5211 Las Solaris Drive
Summary
The Planning Commission approved a development plan allowing a single‑story office building and city utility access for the state Education Retirement Board at 5211 Las Solaris Drive, subject to staff conditions including sidewalk completion, pond fencing, landscaping species changes and revised photometrics.
The Planning Commission on April 17 approved a development plan for a single‑story, approximately 20,000‑square‑foot office building at 5211 Las Solaris Drive for the New Mexico Education Retirement Board, subject to staff‑recommended conditions.
Staff told the commission the state‑owned, roughly 2.99‑acre site is zoned C‑2 (general commercial) and that the building is already under construction after receiving a Construction Industries Division permit. Claudia Calf, the case planner, said the applicant must complete a number of conditions before occupancy, including finishing a sidewalk or posting a financial guarantee, fencing and gating drainage ponds, stabilizing perimeter slopes, changing several tree species, revising outdoor lighting photometrics and pulling carport structures out of the fire lane.
Why it matters: the project will connect a state‑owned office site to city utilities and add an office use near the Los Solaris master plan area. Staff emphasized the approval depends on the state applicant meeting the city’s conditions for sidewalks,…
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