El Picador has learned that there is a proposal to place a commercial laundry facility on 4th street, just south of Osuna, that would wash ALL of the dirty medical laundry for the whole Lovelace system. Imagine how truckloads of laundry, soiled by all manner of bio-hazardous bodily fluids, streaming into the village day and night would enhance our 'blighted' commercial corridor! Vomit-soaked bedsheets, bloody OR scrubs and worse, churned out each and every day from four different hospitals, coming to Los Ranchos for disinfection---now, that's just what the master plan ordered! I guess this is the sort of quality commercial development we can look forward to from the village administration after the VC gets trashed next week.
This is just another example of how the Rio Grande Elite views the east side of town----a place to contain the riff-raf, concentrate the high impact (and GRT cash producing) uses, and a source of property tax revenue. And they have the gaul to ask us to vote to tax ourselves so that they can continue to enjoy unspoiled scenic vistas, while we suck up diesel fumes from trucks shlepping toxic waste and deliveries to the probable 4th-Osuna wal-mart (is there a difference between the two?) That settles it. El Picador had been considering a "yes" on the bond. But he now sees the utter contempt that the RGB gentry has for us. They are playing us for suckers--taking our cash while they ram fire stations, medical waste treatment plants, drive-through Starbucks and wal-marts down our throat. EL Picador says "Send Larry a message. Vote NO."
This waste treatment facility is on the planning and zoning commission agenda for 3/13/07----the same day as the bond vote---at 7 PM. If you don't want to see this sort of business in the village, be there to make your feelings known. The P and Z sometimes listens, and does the right thing, unlike the board of trustees.
On a similar note, EL Picador has noticed that the newly -placed (and fully landscaped) median on Osuna just west of 4th was suddenly removed, and replaced with a continuous left-hand turn lane. That could only mean that Larry has already got something lined up for the SE corner---something that needs a lot of traffic access. Get to the 3/14 BOT meeting, and make your feelings known abut preserving the VC zone. Because if Larry gets his way and its changed, El Picador will with confidence predict that a big shopping center will be approved in short order, with property seized, re-platted, and construction begun, before the fall.
Wake up, before it is too late!
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