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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.
Local business owners from Tasuke Stucco — Martin and Shannon Biddle — said a draft parking ordinance could unfairly disrupt businesses that rely on temporary curbside loading and unloading. Martin Biddle said businesses on Corrales Road have access to 350 feet of feeder road and asked the council to avoid rules that would impede operations; Shannon Biddle noted her business' contributions to village gross receipts and community support and asked for balanced, practical enforcement that preserves the village's rural character.
Office manager Jordan Walls described a January incident in which an individual later identified in the record as Raul B. Hill engaged in prolonged horn‑blaring and aggressive behavior toward contractors temporarily occupying the road to remove a tree, and she said such confrontations create safety risks for children walking to school.
Other commenters raised related concerns: one resident asked for multiple public meetings on Reclining Acres with the engineer present; another asked the council to clarify official parking and site plans for large events at Gonzales and Anderson Fields and questioned liability for events with hundreds of attendees; a complainant asked that reflectors on white angle‑iron posts be adjusted because they are ineffective at night.
What staff said: Administrator Melanie told the council the village will hold a public meeting on Reclining Acres closer to construction with the village engineer present, will send notices to residents in the construction zone and will post meeting information online. She said the capital outlay grants that fund the project must be finalized (typically in September/October) before contracting and that the meeting will occur before the village hires a contractor.
Context: Council is discussing a draft no‑parking ordinance and broader uniform traffic ordinance that will undergo multiple council hearings; staff said residents will have several opportunities to comment before any permanent restrictions are adopted.
Representative quote: "Anybody's welcome, but we will send out notices to all of those residents that will be in the construction zone," Melanie said about the planned public meeting on Reclining Acres.
Next steps: Staff committed to scheduling engineer‑led public meetings for Reclining Acres, and the council placed no‑parking and traffic ordinance items on a future agenda with additional opportunities for public input.
