Renaissance Townhomes in Rio Rancho, NM

Renaissance Townhomes is a gated townhome community on the southeast side of Rio Rancho. Country Club Drive forms its eastern edge, Broadmoor Avenue wraps the south and west, and the grounds of the former Chamisa Hills Country Club run along the north. Attached townhomes on compact, low-maintenance lots make up nearly all of the housing. A property owners association looks after the front yards, the private streets and the shared grounds, and the community keeps a clubhouse residents can use. Security and road maintenance fall to the association as well.

The north edge is the old Chamisa Hills golf land, once Club Rio Rancho. Play stopped there in 2016, fire damaged the property in 2019, and a buyer picked up the roughly 250 acres in 2022. Plans filed since then would rework the site into housing, business space, a town center with shops and restaurants, and open space threaded with walking trails. The proposal has moved through city review in fits and starts, so the ground north of the gate is unsettled rather than finished.

Streets inside the gate are private, which puts their upkeep on the property owners association rather than the city. The association itself is registered in Rio Rancho's directory of homeowner and neighborhood associations.