Sandia Heights South in Albuquerque, NM

Sandia Heights South is the southern half of the Sandia Heights development, spread across the foothills at the western base of the Sandia Mountains on Albuquerque's northeast edge. Tramway Road, the route up to the Sandia Peak Tramway, separates its units from the North side. The Sandia Peak Tram Company laid the area out beginning in the mid-1960s and platted it in numbered units, each carrying its own recorded covenants, so lot sizes and building rules shift from one unit to the next. Elena Gallegos Open Space and the trails running into the Sandia Mountain Wilderness sit close by, and the Sandia Heights Homeowners Association handles architectural review and covenant support.

Residents organized the homeowners association in the early 1970s and incorporated it as a nonprofit in 1975. Dues ride along on the Sandia Heights Services utility bill rather than arriving separately. The association runs architectural review and covenant support, publishes newsletters and a resident directory, organizes community events, and passes along discounted tram passes; members can file covenant complaints and receive enforcement help, submit exterior-change applications at no charge, and use notary service at the office. Because every unit carries its own recorded covenants, which rules apply to a given lot depends on which unit that lot sits in.

Albuquerque Public Schools serves the area, with Double Eagle, Desert Ridge and La Cueva assigned to addresses here.