The Las Cruces City Council passed a unanimous resolution to build a park in the Mesa Grande Road neighborhood by next January.
Councilor Gill Sorg has spent the last eight years advocating for a park to be built in the area. Over the last two decades, multiple housing developments have been constructed, and Sorg reports that building a park is on the minds of his constituents.
“This area of the East Mesa hasn't had a park ever for children,” Sorg said “Very far away there's two parks, not at a distance that children up to ten years old could ever go and walk to…This is a park that’s been asked for, for eight years, and I’ve been asking staff to try to find a park.”