OPEN LETTER: Enclave at Rio Rancho endorses Chamisa Hills

In accordance with the requirement by the Rio Rancho City Council concerning the property development of the defunct golf course titled the Chamisa Hills Preliminary Master Plan, in that greater community involvement was to occur between RR Mesa LLC and the surrounding HOAs, the Enclave HOA has participated in meetings with the RR Mesa LLC since that directive was given in May and have negotiated in good faith with RR Mesa LLC in order to resolve the differences and misunderstandings.

The following items of concern were discussed with RR Mesa LLC with regard to the Luxe Vista Estates development portion of the Chamisa Hills Preliminary Master Plan, which will directly abut the Enclave neighborhood. Therefore, in that an understanding of the Enclave HOAs positions and the agreement of each point below have been understood by both parties they are to be placed within the revised Chamisa Hills Preliminary Master Plan which will be presented to the Rio Rancho City Council on Sept. 11, 2025, by Mr. Chavez and RR Mesa LLC.

1. The area of the golf course surrounding the Enclave neighborhood will be amended to and designated as open space and not R4 housing as now shown in the new drawings placed in the revised Chamisa Hills Preliminary Master Plan. The proposed Luxe Vista Estates will be built no further north and west closer to the Enclave neighborhood than what is shown on the plan drawings.

2. The auxiliary emergency access road was discussed with the RR City Planning and Zoning Department, RR Mesa LLC and the Enclave Board concerning options not to include an entrance on West Island Drive SE with a request to the city that an emergency entrance to the Luxe Vista Estates off the Slice Court cul-de-sac through Rio Rancho city-owned property be used for that access.

3. Concerning the three dry ponds surrounding the Enclave neighborhood to which storm and surface water is shunted, RR Mesa LLC will provide remediation to these dry ponds, which will level and increase each pond's base diameter in order to facilitate rapid water absorption into the soil along with increasing the evaporation rate to the atmosphere, therefore decreasing the time of standing water in the ponds. Remediation to the pond boundaries facing the outside Enclave perimeter wall will also be accomplished, which was caused by the removal of the dying cottonwood trees and prior pond water and rain erosion. This will be accomplished by adding dirt to the outside perimeter Enclave land, ensuring proper elevation to the existing Enclave land with a minimum distance of 15 feet from the Enclave perimeter wall. A property boundary map has been provided by the Enclave Board to RR Mesa LLC for accuracy in property boundary location between the Enclave property and what is proposed to be under the to-be-written R HOA4 covenant. It is further understood that the Enclave HOA and its members will be allowed to plant water-compliant trees and shrubs outside the surrounding Enclave perimeter wall on the Enclave land and the land up to each dry pond's inward perimeter, the later land to be controlled by the R HOA4 Luxe Vista Estates covenant, without restrictions, as a gesture of community between the Enclave HOA and the to-be-formed RHOA4 Luxe Vista Estates development. All equipment, control boxes and the pump house used in each pond's aeration system will be removed.

4. The Enclave HOA Board will continue to be available to work with RR Mesa LLC and the city of Rio Rancho in order to resolve issues that may arise in the planning and development of the Chamisa Hills Development and in particular to the Luxe Vista Estates Development portion of that plan.

With these items placed within the Chamisa Hills Master Plan, the Enclave at Rio Rancho Board and its members find no reason at this time to oppose but rather endorse the passing of the Chamisa Hills Preliminary Master plan by the Rio Rancho City Council.

The Enclave at Rio Rancho HOA

Brian Edwards, president

David Patterson, vice president

Jeanine Patterson, secretary

Thomas Wright, treasurer