CITY of ALBUQUERQUE
TWENTY-SECOND COUNCIL
COUNCIL BILL NO. R-16-13 ENACTMENT NO. ______________________
SPONSORED BY: Don Harris
RESOLUTION
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Approving The East Gateway Metropolitan Redevelopment Area Plan (Harris)
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APPROVING THE EAST GATEWAY METROPOLITAN REDEVELOPMENT AREA PLAN.
WHEREAS, the New Mexico Legislature has passed the Metropolitan Redevelopment Code (herein "Code"), Sections 3-60A-1 to 3-60A-48 inclusive NMSA, 1978, as amended, which authorizes the City of Albuquerque, New Mexico (the "City") to prepare metropolitan redevelopment plans and to undertake and carry out metropolitan redevelopment projects; and
WHEREAS, the City Council, the governing body of the City, (the "City Council") after notice and public hearing as required by Code, has duly passed and adopted Council Resolution F/S R-07-275, which designated the East Gateway Area as a Metropolitan Redevelopment Area (MRA), and established its boundaries; and
WHEREAS, the City Council, after notice and public hearing as required by Code, subsequently amended that boundary and directed the Metropolitan Redevelopment Agency to prepare a Metropolitan Redevelopment Plan for the East Gateway Metropolitan Redevelopment Area, as expanded, through the adoption of City Council Resolution R-11-298; and
WHEREAS, these Resolutions made certain findings, among other things, declaring the East Gateway Metropolitan Redevelopment Area to be blighted and that rehabilitation, conservation, development and redevelopment in the East Gateway area is necessary in the interest of public health, safety, morals and welfare of the residents of the City; and
WHEREAS, the Albuquerque Development Commission, which acts as the Metropolitan Redevelopment Commission under the provisions of ?14-8-4-1 ROA 1994, (the "Commission") recommends approval of the East Gateway Metropolitan Redevelopment Plan (the "Plan") for the redevelopment of the area, as requir...
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