INTER-OFFICE MEMORANDUM September 17, 2025
TO: Brook Bassan, President, City Council
FROM: Timothy M. Keller, Mayor
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Community Planning Area Assessment Report - West Mesa CPA
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This memo serves to transmit the West Mesa (Community Planning Area (CPA) Assessment Report to the City Council for its acceptance. The West Mesa CPA Assessment Report is the fifth CPA report to be transmitted to Council.
BACKGROUND
The Comprehensive Plan establishes 12 CPAs in the City, outlines a process to engage residents and community partners in an assessment of each CPA, and establishes performance metrics to gauge progress toward achieving the plan's vision and goals. The results of planning efforts for each CPA, when completed, are contained in a CPA Assessment Report.
The Integrated Development Ordinance (IDO) requires that CPA assessment recommendations accepted by the City Council be included in updates to the Comprehensive Plan and the IDO. IDO ?14-16-6-3(E) Community Planning Area Assessments establishes parameters for CPA assessments, which inform updates to planning policies, zoning regulations, technical standards, and capital improvement priorities.
CPA assessments provide an opportunity to generate community-based recommendations for a given area. Though they inform updates and amendments to the Comprehensive Plan and the IDO, the CPA assessments themselves are not part of the ranked planning system.
REQUEST
The request to the Environmental Planning Commission (EPC) was for review and recommendation regarding the CPA Assessment Report for the West Mesa CPA. The West Mesa CPA is located west of the Rio Grande to the city's western edge, west of the Double Eagle II airport, and along Atrisco Vista Boulevard between I-40 and Monta?o and Gila Roads.
The West Mesa CPA Assessment Report (Part 5) introduces 15 new policies particular to the West Mesa CPA Area. If accepted by the City Council, these new policie...
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