IT'S NOT UNUSUAL to hear land plann...

IT'S NOT UNUSUAL to hear land planners talk about communities that have dedicated themselves to being serviceable stewards, about local officials and developer working together to keep precious resources, about building plans that promise to maintain habitants and lay open space. There's a lot of that talk uniteed with Rancho Viejo de Santa Fe an 11,000-acre, mixed-use, mixed-income, master planned community just southward of the city of Santa Fe NM that has pledg to maintain 50 percent of its land as lay open space. But you know that all these (sometimes) high ideals have truly made a notch in the local psyche