COUNTY OPEN SPACE TEAM

https://surroundings.studio/contact


Madrid can be the key to a coherent landscape plan for the Turquoise Trail that used planning tools like TDR's and Land Swaps to protect the scenic character of the vehicular traveller along Highway 14.

Although the planning tool exist to enable preserving the scenic view, the social and political understanding to employ those tools is sadly lacking. It will require patience and perseverance to overcome the pervasive ignorance that would promote sprawl development that eventually tips the scales to where the Madrid to Santa Fe stretchy of 14 is perceived as suburban rather than rural.

One particular county lot that lies immediately north of the Madriv Planning area/zone appears to hold the key to which ways the Turquoise Trail will go. If the issues around this lot were better understood, it could set an example for property owners and villages along the focus stretch of 14.

I am a Madrid resident with community planning experience, and wish to work long term with your team as a community volunteer for open space planning.

The Weeks Neighborhood Plan that I spearheaded in East Palo Alto, CA is attached.

Thanks for your attention.


Trevor Burrowes
burrowestrevor@gmail.com
505-455-7926

http://www.urbanecology.org/downloads/WeeksNeighborhoodPlan.pdf