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Site Planning |
To thoroughly understand the development opportunities and constraints associated with the Village, Southern Crescent, West Basin, and New Moon Overlook, Commonweal Conservancy painstakingly analyzed the properties' topographic, scenic, visibility, and cultural resources using Geographic Information System (GIS) technology.
All home sites in the Galisteo Basin Preserve have been designed to:
- Protect views to the surrounding Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Jemez Mountains, Ortiz Mountains, and the Cerrillos Hills
- Encourage highly productive "solar orientation" for warmth and power
- Enhance the productivity and diversity of native plant and animal habitat
- Facilitate alluvial water storage
- Protect natural drainages from erosion
- Minimize the visibility of new development from public right-of-ways and existing homes
- Conserve the property's priceless archaeological and historic resources
- Leverage natural windscreens (i.e. hilltops and ridges, as well as trees) as a source of protection from high winds
- Foster connections between people and the land, and between residents and their neighbors
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