We must protect the beauty of the Old Pecos Trail Scenic Corridor — the historic gateway to our city. It is the last entrance unspoiled by commercial development and is vital to our tourism sector. I will encourage the City to move forward with Resolution 2015-92 adopted by the City Council in October of 2015.
I support the role and voice neighborhoods play in our community and believe we should celebrate and enforce the Historic Ordinance. As a member of the City Charter Review Commission, I worked with neighborhood groups to expand the Culture Preservation Section of the Charter, Section 2.04, to include neighborhoods. Below is that section which voters approved in 2014.
“2.04. Cultural and neighborhood preservation.
The people of Santa Fe derive invaluable benefits from our multi-cultural heritage. The multiethnic and multi-racial residents who have made their homes here over the centuries have each left their unique cultural mark on our city, producing a rich blend of stories, traditions and neighborhoods. The result is a community that treasures a variety of artistic, literary and musical forms, that symbolizes an architectural style, and that celebrates the diversity of those who have chosen to live here. We therefore declare that the multi-cultural heritage and neighborhoods of Santa Fe are essential to the people of this community and that public officials shall at all times exercise their powers with sensitivity to and respect for that cultural and neighborhood heritage.
History: An Amendment to Section 2.04 was approved by the voters of the City of Santa Fe at the March 4, 2014 Regular Municipal Election.
This section was amended to add neighborhood preservation to the existing policy.
Effective Date: May 5, 2014”