INTER-OFFICE MEMORANDUM April 27, 2024
TO: Dan Lewis, President, President, City Council
FROM: Timothy M. Keller, Mayor
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Community Planning Area Assessment Report - East Gateway ABQ CPA
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This memo serves to transmit the East Gateway Community Planning Area (CPA) Assessment Report to the City Council for its acceptance. The East Gateway CPA Assessment Report is the fourth CPA Assessment.
BACKGROUND
The Comprehensive Plan establishes 12 Community Planning Areas (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 was for EPC to review and recommend whether City Council should accept the Assessment Report for the East Gateway CPA. The East Gateway CPA is located generally south of I-40 and east of Wyoming Blvd.
The East Gateway CPA Assessment Report is the fourth CPA report to be completed of the 12 CPAs.
The East Gateway CPA Assessment Report generally furthers applicable Comprehensive Plan Goals and policies that pertain to land use, urban design, and economic development as elaborated in the EPC's Official Notifi...
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