City of Albuquerque - File #: R-23-97

• File #: R-23-97
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Enacted
• File created: 1/18/2023
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 3/6/2023
• Enactment date: 3/13/2023
• Enactment #: R-2023-022
• Title: Prioritizing The Maintenance, Restoration, And Active Use Of The Atchison, Topeka, And Santa Fe Railway Fire Station (Benton)
• Sponsors: Isaac Benton

Date	Action By	Action	Result
3/13/2023	City Clerk	Published
3/9/2023	Mayor	Signed by the Mayor
3/9/2023	City Council	Sent to Mayor for Signature
3/6/2023	City Council	Passed	Pass
2/22/2023	City Council	Postponed	Pass
1/18/2023	City Council	Introduced
1/18/2023	President	To be heard at the Council Meeting

CITY of ALBUQUERQUE
TWENTY FIFTH COUNCIL


COUNCIL BILL NO. R-23-97 ENACTMENT NO. ________________________

SPONSORED BY: Isaac Benton


RESOLUTION
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Prioritizing The Maintenance, Restoration, And Active Use Of The Atchison, Topeka, And Santa Fe Railway Fire Station (Benton)
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PRIORITIZING THE MAINTENANCE, RESTORATION, AND ACTIVE USE OF THE ATCHISON, TOPEKA, AND SANTA FE RAILWAY FIRE STATION.
WHEREAS, the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Fire Station (Firehouse) was built in 1920 and is part of the 27 acre Rail Yards site; and
WHEREAS, the Firehouse is the oldest remaining fire station in the city; and
WHEREAS, the Firehouse was built to house the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Fire Department, to serve the railroad's shop and roundhouse complex; and
WHEREAS, the Firehouse was designed by E. A. Harrison, in the picturesque revival style, and conveys the railroad architect's romantic images of the Southwest; and
WHEREAS, the Firehouse is made from rough, random ashlar sandstone, quarried from Laguna Pueblo, and salvaged from the Rail Yard's original 1881 roundhouse; and
WHEREAS, the Firehouse became a City Landmark in 1987, with development guidelines adopted in 1990; and
WHEREAS, the Firehouse is a contributing structure within the Historic Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railway Locomotive Shops Historic District, which was added to the State Register of Cultural Properties and the National Register of Historic Places in 2014; and
WHEREAS, the Firehouse is noted in the Rail Yards Master Plan (2014) as a structure for preservation; and
WHEREAS, the Rail Yards Master Plan includes the following policy, Architecture and Historic Rehabilitation Policy 5.2.1 "Rehabilitate and/or adaptively re-use historic resources: The historic resources represented by the Rail Yards should be rehabilitated and adaptively reused in plans for economic ventures, cultural amenities, and physical changes to the site."; and
WHEREAS, the City...