INTER-OFFICE MEMORANDUM September 17, 2025
TO: Brook Bassan, President, City Council
FROM: Timothy M. Keller, Mayor
SUBJECT:
title
Community Planning Area Assessment Report - Northwest Mesa CPA - Plan-2025-00003
body
This memo serves to transmit the Northwest Mesa Community Planning Area (CPA) Assessment Report to the City Council for its acceptance. The Northwest Mesa CPA Assessment Report is the sixth 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 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 the Environmental Planning Commission (EPC) was for review and recommendation regarding the CPA Assessment Report for the Northwest Mesa CPA. The Northwest Mesa CPA is bounded generally by the Rio Grande to the east and the city's edge on the west and between Monta?o and Gila Roads to the south and the Bernalillo/Sandoval County line to the north. The Northwest Mesa CPA Assessment Report (Part 5) introduces ten new policies particular to the Northwest Mesa CPA Area. If a...
Click here for full text