Every weekday around 7:45 a.m., traffic in Enchanted Hills funnels down to a single point. More than 600 homes and a large church share two ways in and out, and both routes eventually squeeze onto Transmountain near Loop 375. Ask anyone who has lived there through a school drop-off and they will tell you the same thing residents told the city last October: this is not a minor inconvenience, it is the thing that comes up first when they talk about the neighborhood.
For nearly ten years that complaint sat in the category every long-term homeowner recognizes: the problem everybody agrees on and nobody can put a date on. That changed this year. The fix now has a bond number, a design firm of record, and a Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation filing dated May 14, 2026. If you are buying or selling in Enchanted Hills right now, that shift from advocacy to paperwork is the detail that should be shaping your number, not the traffic itself.
From a Decade of Asking to a Filed Project
The push for a third way into Enchanted Hills did not start with a press release. It started with residents raising it at meeting after meeting, year after year. Christian Lopez, president of the Enchanted Hills neighborhood association, told a local news crew in October 2025 that he and his neighbors had been waiting for this fix for close to ten years, and that the bottleneck had contributed to real accidents, not just frustration.
The City of El Paso held a public meeting on October 21, 2025, at the Hospitals of Providence Transmountain campus to walk residents through the plan: extend Resler Drive from Transmountain north to Dewberry Drive, add a third entrance, and build it out as a four-lane divided road with sidewalks and pedestrian improvements. City Representative Alejandra Chavez, who has pushed for the project since taking office, was on hand for the discussion. The money comes from the 2022 Community Progress Bond, a citywide program El Paso voters already approved. The city allocated roughly $19.3 million; Chavez said at the meeting she expects the actual cost to land closer to $16 million.
That October meeting is also where the project stopped being conceptual. Design was already about 60 percent complete by that point, according to reporting from the meeting. Seven months later, on May 14, 2026, the project was formally registered with TDLR, the state licensing step tied to accessibility compliance that typically lands once construction documents are locked in. Consor Engineering is the design firm of record. The road is now tracking toward completion in early 2027.
None of that means orange cones tomorrow. It means the project has moved from something residents were asking for to something the city has filed paperwork on, with a state agency, under a specific bond program, with an engineer's name attached.
"Connecting Resler is really, truly going to be that major solution to give us that accessibility, to give us the opportunity to kind of move away from the residential access point that we're all on." — Christian Lopez, president of the Enchanted Hills neighborhood association
The Discount Nobody Wrote Down
Here is the part that actually affects your number. For years, the two-entrance bottleneck functioned as an informal discount on Enchanted Hills homes. Buyers who cross-shopped the neighborhood against nearby Westside options weighed the daily friction of a single arterial exit against everything else the area offered, and that friction showed up in offers even when nobody named it directly. Sellers, meanwhile, had nothing firmer to counter it with than "the city is working on it," which is not a fact a buyer's agent can put in front of a lender or a skeptical buyer.
That asymmetry is closing. A seller today is not making a hopeful argument about future traffic relief. They are pointing to a bond-funded, TDLR-registered project with a design firm attached and a completion window in the public record. A buyer weighing that same friction has to price it against a fix that is materially closer to done than it has ever been, not a decade-old request.
| What sellers used to say | What sellers can point to now |
|---|---|
| "The city is working on it" | Registered with TDLR on May 14, 2026, tied to construction documents being finalized |
| "Residents have been asking for years" | Funded through the 2022 Community Progress Bond that El Paso voters already passed |
| "It should get better eventually" | Design was roughly 60 percent complete as of the October 21, 2025 public meeting, with completion targeted around early 2027 |
If you are listing a home in Enchanted Hills this year, that table is the difference between an appeal to patience and a fact a buyer can verify. If you are the one making an offer, it is a reason not to lean too hard on the bottleneck as leverage. The thing you are pricing against has a paper trail now.
What to Actually Confirm Before You Sign
The road project answers one question. It raises a few others that are worth settling during the option period rather than after closing.
- Ask whether the road is a special assessment against the property or a general city obligation. It is the latter. The 2022 Community Progress Bond is a citywide program that El Paso voters approved, not a district-specific assessment tied to individual Enchanted Hills parcels. Confirm this with your title company if you want it in writing, but it should not show up as a lien or a per-property charge.
- Confirm HOA status for the specific address, not the neighborhood as a whole. Most of Enchanted Hills does not sit under a blanket HOA. One gated section, Encore, runs its own association with dues around $100 a month. If the home you are considering falls inside or outside that pocket changes your monthly math, so get it confirmed rather than assumed.
- Ask about construction exposure on your specific street, not just the general timeline. A project targeted for early 2027 completion still means active construction somewhere along the corridor before then. If your daily commute runs near the Transmountain-to-Dewberry stretch, ask what phase is scheduled closest to your closing date.
- If you're the seller, put the verifiable version of this story in your listing remarks, not the vague one. Buyers' agents can confirm a TDLR registration and a bond program. They cannot confirm "the city has plans."
None of this is legal or financial advice. It is the due diligence list that turns a fuzzy neighborhood complaint into a set of facts both sides can act on.
The Part That Doesn't Change Yet
Design being 60 percent complete in October 2025 and a TDLR filing in May 2026 are real progress markers, but they are not a ribbon cutting. Anyone buying in Enchanted Hills between now and the project's targeted early-2027 completion should expect the two-entrance reality to still be the daily experience for a while longer. The value of knowing the timeline is not that the traffic disappears today. It's that you can now weigh a temporary condition against a documented endpoint instead of an open-ended one, and negotiate accordingly.
A Few Questions We Hear Often
Will this project raise my property taxes? The Resler extension is funded through the 2022 Community Progress Bond, a citywide program already approved by El Paso voters, not a special district assessment against Enchanted Hills homes specifically. Any change to your property tax bill would follow the normal county appraisal process, unrelated to this project.
Does the Encore HOA have anything to do with the road project? No. Encore is a separate gated section within Enchanted Hills with its own homeowners association and dues, unrelated to the city's road extension. It is worth confirming separately during your option period regardless.
When will construction actually start on my street? The project was registered with TDLR on May 14, 2026, and is tracking toward completion in early 2027. The city has not published a block-by-block construction schedule in the sources we've reviewed, so confirm current phase details with the city's capital improvements department for the most current status on the specific stretch near your address.
Thelma Briffa and the team have been tracking how infrastructure like this actually plays out in negotiations, not just in press releases. If you're weighing an offer in Enchanted Hills, or wondering what a listing there should say about the Resler extension, BHG Elevate | Thelma Briffa can walk you through it with the current facts in hand. Get a Free Home Valuation and let's talk about what this timeline actually means for your number.
