Andalucia at La Luz in Albuquerque, NM

Andalucia at La Luz is the residential heart of the Andalucia master plan, a stretch of Albuquerque's west side east of Coors Boulevard between Montano and Namaste roads. Consensus Planning laid out the community with tree-lined entries off Coors, a village green threading through the single-family blocks, and a neighborhood park along the San Antonio Arroyo. Building began in 2006, with Scott Patrick Homes and Sky View Homes first out of the ground and ASW, Summer Tree and Pulte following. Homes sit close to the Rio Grande bosque, and an association maintains the pool, clubhouse, common areas and private roads.

The Andalucia Homeowners Association covers the shared side of that arrangement, with enTrust Association Management handling the administration. Dues fold in common areas, grounds keeping, the pool and the clubhouse, which is why road maintenance sits in the assessment alongside landscaping.

Design standards shape the place as much as the houses do. The plan sets its own setbacks and street standards, keeps lighting low, and lines Coors Boulevard with berming and view fencing planted in drought-tolerant, low-growing material so views out to the mesa and the valley stay open. Open space and trails run between the blocks.

One sub-community is recorded beneath it: La Luz Del Sol, a smaller pocket inside the same plat, where townhome product appears alongside the single-family streets.

Coors Boulevard frontage puts the Sprouts-anchored center at Montano, built as part of the same development, within easy reach, and the Paseo del Bosque Trail follows the river east of the neighborhood.