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Las Cruces council approves land sales, housing land bank dedication, short-term rental rules and plastic-bag fund changes
Summary
At its Dec. 15 meeting, the Las Cruces City Council approved the sale of a small city parcel to a neighboring daycare operator, dedicated 1701 E. Nevada to the affordable housing land bank, adopted a short-term rental registration ordinance and broadened allowable uses for plastic-bag fee revenue; it also authorized a five-year master lease for the Mesilla Valley Community of Hope campus.
The Las Cruces City Council on Dec. 15 approved a suite of land, housing and regulatory measures, voting to sell a small city tract near Baton Memorial and Coronado North, dedicate a city-owned parcel to an affordable housing land bank, adopt a short-term rental registration ordinance and amend the city's plastic-bag ordinance to broaden permitted uses of bag-fee revenue.
The council approved a resolution to sell an approximately 6,500-square-foot former tank site to Little Tumbleweed Rentals LLC for $23,000 after staff said the adjoining daycare is the parcel's only realistic user. Bill Hamm of the Economic Development Department said the buyer will replat the property, pay closing and survey costs and the sale will put the property on the tax rolls. The motion passed by roll call.
Council members voted to dedicate 1701 E. Nevada — a nearly three-quarter-acre parcel purchased in 2019 as part of the Nevada Cool Corridor work — to the city’s affordable housing land bank. Housing and Neighborhood Services staff described the parcel as residentially zoned and identified…
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