(a) to preserve and protect the rural residential environment of the San Pedro Neighborhood and to assure that any future development is in conformity with applicable plans and ordinances of Santa Fe County;

(b) to monitor mining and development activities in the area surrounding the San Pedro Neighborhood to assure that such mining and development activities are environmentally sensitive, in the best health, safety and welfare interests of the San Pedro community, and in conformity with applicable plans and ordinances of Santa Fe County;

(c) to represent the common interest of property owners/residents in the San Pedro Neighborhood in the areas of water quality and availability, public services, utilities and other matters that bear on the general welfare of residents of the area.

SPNA is not a governing organization of any sort and is set up to promote the purposes listed above. Membership in SPNA in completely voluntary and is open to all who support these purposes.

Over the years SPNA has worked hard in furtherance of the organization's purposes. SPNA helped establish a local volunteer fire station, successfully fought the reopening of a large mining operation at the old San Pedro Mine Site (at the top of Heartbreak Hill), worked with Santa Fe County to establish a community plan which has now been adopted as part of the County Ordinances, worked with the County to establish conditions on the gravel mining operation on BLM land north of the fire station, and worked on a variety of fire prevention and water quality issues.