Tanoan East in Albuquerque, NM

Tanoan East is the eastern half of Tanoan, a gated golf community in Albuquerque's Northeast Heights, sitting north of Academy Road and east of Eubank Boulevard. Eubank separates it from Tanoan West, and the Tanoan Country Club's 27 holes run through both sides, though the club operates as an entirely separate entity from the homeowners association. Seven named neighborhoods sit behind two entrances: a staffed gate at Country Club and an automated one at Lowell Street. The 1982 Academy/Tramway/Eubank sector plan routed the area's drainage-ways into fairways, and the single-family houses that followed went up beneath the Sandia foothills.

The Tanoan Community East Association, run by HOAMCO, handles the controlled-access side of the community, and dues take in security, the common areas, road maintenance and a clubhouse. At the Country Club entrance a Community Patrol officer works the gate during business hours: residents keep to the right lane while guests, vendors, contractors and deliveries use the left. The Lowell entrance runs unstaffed, with pedestrian gates along the sidewalk that open on resident codes.

The land came from 1,321 acres of academy holdings released for private development, and the sector plan that shaped it put the major drainage-ways to work as the golf course rather than filling them. The country club keeps its own membership rolls, separate from association dues, and adds tennis courts, a pool, fitness space and dining rooms at the clubhouse.