![]() High Desert influenced Albuquerque’s Design and Construction Regulations by providing its drought tolerant plant list to the City Planning Department.Educational signage, local art installations and demonstration gardens throughout the development enhance communal stewardship.A viewable “wildlife drinker” (a potable water-fed trickle pond) and planned corridor to the mountains beyond enhance habitat and human/wildlife connections.Street lights are limited to intersections and cul-de-sacs in order to reduce night-sky glare.Boulders from disturbed areas of the site were incorporated into the open space landscapes as amenities instead of being hauled offsite.All public areas and open space are mulched with decomposed granite harvested onsite or with recycled dam sediments from downstream.Pre-construction biomass was assessed, plants in areas of disturbance were stockpiled and replanted, sensitive plant species were transferred from disturbed areas to open space, and additional species from local nurseries were added. The amount of critical habitat vegetation of the Juniper pinion ecotype was doubled with this project. ![]()
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