CITY of ALBUQUERQUE
TWENTY-FIRST COUNCIL
COUNCIL BILL NO. R-15-220 ENACTMENT NO. ________________________
SPONSORED BY: Isaac Benton
RESOLUTION
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Stating The Position Of The City Council That The City Should Have Input On The Proposed Santolina Development Based On The Jointly Adopted Planned Communities Criteria And Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Comprehensive Plan (Benton)
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WHEREAS, the Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Comprehensive Plan is a jointly-adopted policy guiding coordinated and harmonious land development in the metropolitan area within and outside City limits; and
WHEREAS, the Comprehensive Plan established 48 square miles of Reserve Area to the city's southeast and west within which only low density, rural "Conventional Development" or "Planned Communities" should occur (? I.B.2); and
WHEREAS, criteria for Planned Communities within the Reserve Area was jointly adopted by the City and the County as amendments to the Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Comprehensive Plan (Resolution No. 151-1990); and
WHEREAS, the jointly-adopted criteria for Planned Communities envisions substantially self-sufficient mixed-use communities; and
WHEREAS, the Planned Communities Criteria for Reserve Areas established in the Comprehensive Plan (Section II.B.2.a (as amended by Enactment No. 32-1991) includes the following: "Negotiated sharing of service costs by the developer and local government(s), with water, sewer and street systems installed to meet city requirements; planned communities shall not be a net expense to local government(s);" and
WHEREAS, the Planned Communities Criteria (Section II.A.2.d) further state that "[a] planned community master plan shall not be approved if it fails to demonstrate its own sense of place, self-sufficiency, environmental sensitivity, separation from the contiguous Albuquerque urban area by permanent open space and the provision of infrastructure which is not a n...
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