CITY of ALBUQUERQUE
TWENTY SIXTH COUNCIL
COUNCIL BILL NO. R-25-170 ENACTMENT NO. ________________________
SPONSORED BY: Nichole Rogers
RESOLUTION
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Designating Approximately 23 Acres In The San Mateo Boulevard Area Between Central Avenue And Lomas Boulevard As Blighted; Approving An Amendment To The Boundary Of The Central/Highland/Upper Nob Hill Metropolitan Redevelopment Area To Include Approximately 23 Acres; Approving A Corresponding Non Substantial Amendment To The Central/Highland/Upper Nob Hill Metropolitan Redevelopment Area Plan (Rogers)
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WHEREAS, the City of Albuquerque (the "City") is a legally and regularly created, established, organized, and existing municipal corporation of the State of New Mexico (the "State"); and
WHEREAS, the City desires to promote redevelopment in areas designated as blighted so as to promote neighborhood stabilization by providing affordable housing, convenient services, creating new jobs, upgrading buildings, infrastructure, and housing for such areas and to promote public health, welfare, safety, convenience, and prosperity; and
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Redevelopment Code, NMSA 1978, Sections 3-60A-1 through 3-60A-48, as amended (the "Act"), states, "A municipality shall not prepare a metropolitan redevelopment plan for an area unless the governing body by resolution determined the area to be a slum or a blighted area, or a combination thereof, and designated the area as appropriate for a metropolitan redevelopment project;" and
WHEREAS, pursuant to NMSA 1978, Section 30-60A-8 of the Metropolitan Redevelopment Code, the Council caused to be twice published in the Albuquerque Journal, a newspaper of general circulation in the metropolitan redevelopment area hereinafter identified, with the last publication no less than 20 days before the Council's hearing on this matter, a notice containing a general description of the proposed metropolitan redevelopment area and date, time a...
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