Santa Fe County asked the public nuisance hearing officer to recommend removal of a manufactured home at 2584 Lopez Lane and to forward a clean-and-lien resolution to the Board of County Commissioners, saying inspections show the unit is dilapidated, uninhabitable and associated with repeated law-enforcement responses.

Joe Martinez, representing Santa Fe County code enforcement, told Hearing Officer John Ziegler that the county received a complaint from property owner Maria Magallena on Feb. 21, 2025 alleging an abandoned manufactured home belonging to Carolyn Flores remained on the lot. Martinez described an inspection on Feb. 25, 2025 that documented nonfunctioning plumbing, missing fixtures, floor holes, ceiling buckling, water-damaged and compromised roof sections, unsecured entry and that utilities were not functioning. Martinez presented photographic exhibits, calls-for-service records spanning 2016 through current and a First Judicial Court amended writ of restitution ordering removal of occupants from the property in December 2024.

Martinez said county staff advised Ms. Flores that, to move the manufactured home, she must satisfy a lien placed by the Santa Fe County Treasurer's Office and address any back taxes before obtaining a movement permit from the motor-vehicle division. Martinez also noted a county treasurer lien on the unit and reported that certified mail of a written notice was returned unclaimed.

Carolyn Flores, sworn in and permitted to speak, said she had been forced off the property and that the manufactured home belonged to her; she did not commit to removing the unit at the hearing, telling the hearing officer, "At this point not necessarily," when asked if she intended to remove it. Maria Magallena—sworn earlier—submitted probate paperwork she said demonstrated the land had been probated and stated she wants the manufactured home removed so cleanup can continue; other family members present contested that heirs had not been properly notified in probate filings.

County staff recommended the hearing officer find violations of the 20 20 3-4 Nuisance Abatement Ordinance for criminal activity and substandard building conditions (sections cited during the hearing) and to recommend that the Board of County Commissioners authorize a clean-and-lien to remove the manufactured home and recover abatement costs. The hearing record contains photographic evidence of interior sanitary and structural failures and calls-for-service logs documenting domestic disturbances, burglaries, suspicious persons, vehicular theft and other incidents at or near the site.

Hearing Officer Ziegler closed the evidence and accepted the submitted probate paperwork into the record; he will issue a written decision within three days. No formal abatement order was issued at the hearing; any abatement and lien action requires subsequent Board of County Commissioners action if the hearing officer upholds the county's findings.