CITY OF ALBUQUERQUE
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Office of the Mayor
Mayor Timothy M. Keller
INTER-OFFICE MEMORANDUM April 30, 2024
TO: Dan Lewis, President, President, City Council
FROM: Timothy M. Keller, Mayor
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Community Planning Area Assessment Report - Central Albuquerque CPA
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This memo serves to transmit the Central Albuquerque (ABQ) (Community Planning Area (CPA) Assessment Report to the City Council for its acceptance. The Central ABQ CPA Assessment Report is the fourth CPA report to be transmitted to Council.
BACKGROUND
The Comprehensive Plan establishes 12 CPAs in the City, outlines a process to engage stakeholders in an assessment of each CPA, and establishes performance metrics to gauge progress toward the 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 Environmental Planning Commission (EPC) was for review and recommendation regarding the CPA Assessment Report for the Central Albuquerque CPA. The Central Albuquerque CPA is located generally south of I-40, west of I-25, and east of the Rio Grande.
The Central Albuquerque CPA Assessment Report generally furthers applicable Comprehensive Plan Goals and policies that pertain to land use, urban design, and economic development as elaborated ...
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