MARFA –– American Electric Power (AEP) was the lone bidder on a 5-acre property near Vizcaino Park northeast of Marfa, and county commissioners accepted the $350,000 bid The company will start building its “Marfa Shorthorn Substation” there, according Fred Guerrero, AEP’s external affairs manager.
More than a year of meetings on the initial proposal to build the substation in Marfa on a residentially-zoned lot at Oak and Aparejo streets ended in May after the City Council denied AEP’s final effort — a special use permit for the facility. That proposal drew significant opposition from neighbors of the land and from Marfa residents concerned about maintaining
This story updates a print edition article from October 15 to note commissioners had accepted the big.
