N.M. Stat. § 4-55A-4.1
Improvement district; additional purpose.
An improvement district may also be created as authorized in Chapter 4, Article 55A
NMSA 1978 in order to construct, repair or maintain improvements in one or more
locations as a means to stimulate manufacturing, industrial, commercial or business
development or to construct or acquire, repair, operate and maintain one or more of the
following inadequacies necessary to bring a premature subdivision into compliance
within an improvement district within a municipality:
A. street right-of-way or street access control;
B. drainage easements or right-of-way;
C. park, recreation or open-space areas;
D. overall grading and drainage plan; and
E. adequate subdivision grading both on or off the public right-of-way.