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I am a fourth-generation resident of Mountain View. Our community is a tight-knit village of farmers, first responders, doctors, business owners, engineers, horsemen and homemakers. We have been here for generations, working the land along the Rio Grande and helping build the city that grew up around us. Our roots run deeper than any sector development plan ever will.

Bernalillo County spent two years asking Mountain View residents what we want 鈥� surveys, workshops in our neighborhoods, all compiled into a 鈥淲hat We Heard鈥� report. The community spoke clearly, and we want to be sure we were truly heard.

That report named our priorities. We want to keep residents in their homes and preserve agricultural land and open space, protecting Mountain View鈥檚 rural character. Environmental compliance ranked highest of all: We asked for strict oversight of industrial polluters, because for us, compliance is not a future study 鈥� it is the air our children breathe today. And we asked the county to fix existing infrastructure first, before expansion 鈥� to repair the streets we already drive, not build new ones for more trucks.

Here is what happened instead. At the sector plan meetings, the Interstate 40 TradePort Corridor 鈥� an 800-mile freight project 鈥� was not shown on the maps, and county representatives told residents it probably would not come here. Many of us wrote it off. In fact, the project was moving toward land on Broadway in our neighborhood 鈥� land technically inside the city of Albuquerque and the Mesa del Sol development, though it sits in the middle of unincorporated Mountain View. Those of us who live here cannot even vote for the city officials shaping it.

The plan now markets Mountain View as a top logistics and 鈥渃lean-energy鈥� hub. Instead of confronting the pollution we already breathe, it offers an 鈥渆nvironmental inventory鈥� with no enforcement and no cleanup timeline. Instead of fixing our roads first, it improves Broadway to carry commercial trucks. We have been told to expect hundreds of semis a day on that route 鈥� but only verbally. There is no written traffic study, no public projection, nothing we can hold. A project this size has broken ground beside our community, and the numbers exist only as things said aloud in meetings. A proposed waste transfer station, built to haul in trash from multiple counties, would add hundreds more. We have two ways in and out of Mountain View. This spring, industrial fires closed one of them, in both directions, twice in 11 days.

The plan also offers 鈥渂uffers鈥� between our homes and heavy industry. In one opt-in zone, that buffer is apartment housing up to 25 units per acre. But the families who would live there are residents too 鈥� breathing the same air, using the same two roads. A buffer made of people does not protect a community. It only changes who absorbs the harm. We know a better path is possible, because it has already happened on this very project.

In Winslow, Arizona 鈥� the same corridor, the same federal grant 鈥� residents raised concerns, and the developer moved the project away from their neighborhoods. We are asking for far less. We are not asking anyone to leave. We are asking that the traffic, air and safety impacts be studied honestly, and together, before the trucks arrive 鈥� not after. The federal planning money awarded to this corridor exists to do exactly that.

We have secured a 90-day extension. The county plans two or three community meetings in August, and our community will be there 鈥� because silence is not approval, and we will speak up.

A few nights ago, my eldest grandson looked at me and said, 鈥淚 don鈥檛 want to live here any longer. I would sell out what we have worked for and live in an area that isn鈥檛 trying to kill me.鈥� It breaks my heart. He should be dreaming about his future in the place his family built. Instead, he is calculating how to leave. This is not about politics, or partisan wins and losses. It is about whether our children and grandchildren will still want to call Mountain View home 鈥� or whether they will leave, and take our future with them.

Elizabeth Chavez-Maldonado is president of the Mountain View Neighborhood Association and a Fourth-generation resident of Mountain View.