Residents of a few Montana Vista neighborhoods invited several local and state elected officials to a tour of where they live.

This is in an effort to bring more awareness to their concerns about a proposed natural gas power plant El Paso Electric wants to build near the intersection of Montana and Zaragoza.

There are a number of signs in the area that read: "Just say no to power plant."

"Take it where you won't have communities near," Adrian Castillo told KFOX 14 Saturday.

But that's where EPE wants to put a new power plant that is said to be able to power 80,000 homes when it's scheduled to be finished sometime next year.

It's by homes and by fuel tanks, which got the attention of a couple of elected officials invited by residents in this area during a tour Saturday morning.

"It doesn't seem very wise to locate a power plant next to fuel tankers also, you know, located next to residential areas," Vincent Perez county commissioner, Precinct 3, said.

Those living in Montana Vista also worry about decreased home values, pollution, plus some added features the plant might bring.

"Seventy-five acres is dedicated to ponding. we can expect mosquitoes. We can expect to have the smell of the ponding area," Castillo said.

However, according several elected officials, state law ties their hands, so they can't do a whole lot to stop EPE from putting the plant near their homes.

"The county has no ordinance authority whatsoever out here," Carlo Leon, Precinct 1county commissioner, said.

"We, in El Paso County, have been asking for years of the state of Texas to grant authority," Perez said.

However, making a bigger deal out of it publicly is something both county and state leaders along with residents hope might get the power company's attention to build the plant elsewhere.

KFOX 14 talked with EL Paso Electric's CEO in November 2012 about these concerns of Montana Vista residents.

He said every plant creates some type of pollution, but said it's regulated.