After observing an unusual amount of traffic entering the Portal from "Campbell Ranch" and related search terms for the past several weeks, I decided to look further into what might be the cause. This is what I found:
Santa Fe Ranch and Farms (a portion of Campbell Ranch) launched a
promotional website earlier this year with an accompanying press release, but it has only been in the past few weeks that the project has been noticed by the general public. There is only a rudimentary area map on the official site, but several things indicated to me that the land being offered for sale lies entirely in unincorporated Santa Fe County.
I was able to confirm my impression using a map which shows the general location and several landmarks located at a commercial real estate website called
Commercial Connected. By comparing landmarks on their map with those on a draft zone map of Edgewood's official boundaries, I concluded that the land being offered for sale does appear to be located entirely within Santa Fe County, but outside of Edgewood's present boundaries. It appears likely that the two southernmost parcels (Tract 5 and Tract 6) are adjacent to the northernmost boundary of the town's lands in Santa Fe County.
In addition, the area map at
Santa Fe Ranch and Farms shows plans to add a second phase consisting of 8 similar parcels east of North 14 and south of NM 344. Two of those parcels, tentatively numbered Tract 11 and Tract 12, are shown directly to the west of Tracts 5 & 6 and immediately north of Edgewood's boundary line.
A shared water system, with its attendant complications, would not be needed for this project as a domestic well permit for each parcel should suffice. However, the question of obtaining sufficient water rights to serve a shared system proposed for the Master Plan development which is located inside Edgewood boundaries has proved elusive, and has held up development in that portion of Campbell Ranch for more than a decade.