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Residents urge more public meetings on Reclining Acres reengineering; businesses warn parking rules could harm operations
Summary
Multiple Corrales residents pressed the council for engineer‑led public meetings on the Reclining Acres road reconstruction, raised drainage and property‑damage concerns, and local business owners asked council to preserve curbside loading and consider safety risks associated with narrow roads and aggressive drivers.
Residents and business owners used the council's public comment period to press the Village of Corrales for more engineer‑led outreach on road reconstruction and to urge caution in proposed parking rules that could affect small businesses.
Cliff Givens, who lives on Reclining Acres Road, asked the village to meet with engineers and neighbors before reconstruction proceeds and warned that raising the roadbed and installing an inverted crown could create a dam effect, concentrate runoff onto adjacent properties and overwhelm downstream retention ponds. Givens cited New Mexico's reasonable‑use principles for surface water and asked for meetings with the village engineer to seek a solution that would not damage private properties.
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