CITY of ALBUQUERQUE
TWENTY FOURTH COUNCIL
COUNCIL BILL NO. R-20-62 ENACTMENT NO. ________________________
SPONSORED BY: Isaac Benton, by request
RESOLUTION
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Approving The North Corridor Metropolitan Redevelopment Area Plan (Benton, by request)
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APPROVING THE NORTH CORRIDOR METROPOLITAN REDEVELOPMENT AREA PLAN.
WHEREAS, the State of New Mexico has enacted the Metropolitan Redevelopment Code (herein the “Code”), Chapter 3, Article 60A, Sections 1-48 NMSA 1978, as amended, which authorizes the City of Albuquerque, New Mexico (the “City”) to prepare metropolitan redevelopment plans to undertake and carry out metropolitan redevelopment projects; and
WHEREAS, the City Council (the “Council”), the governing body of the City, after notice and public hearing as required by the Code, has duly passed and adopted Council Resolution R-16-49, which designated the North Corridor Metropolitan Redevelopment Area and established its boundaries; and
WHEREAS, that Resolution made certain findings declaring, among other things, the North Corridor Metropolitan Redevelopment Area as blighted, and that rehabilitation, conservation, development or redevelopment of the North Corridor Metropolitan Redevelopment Area is necessary in the interest of the public health, safety, morals or welfare of the residents of the City; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 3-60A-8 (A) NMSA 1978 of the MR Code, a public meeting was held on January 16, 2020 and notice of the meeting was mailed to all property owners within the proposed North Corridor Metropolitan Redevelopment Area, the Downtown Neighborhoods Association, the Gavilan Addition Neighborhood Association, Greater Gardner & Monkbridge Neighborhood Association, Lee Acres Neighborhood Association, Los Alamos Addition Neighborhood Association, Los Poblanos Neighborhood Association, Near North Valley Neighborhood Association, Santa Barbara Martineztown Neighborhood Association, Martinez Town Working Group, Silver Platinum Downtown Neighborhood Association, Spanish Walk Non Profit, Stronghurst Improvement Association, and Wells Park Neighborhood Association; and
WHEREAS, the Albuquerque Development Commission recommends the Council’s approval of the North Corridor Metropolitan Redevelopment Plan; and
WHEREAS, the City has conducted at least one public hearing on the proposed North Corridor Metropolitan Redevelopment Plan prior to final consideration of the plan, after proper notice as required by Section 3-60A-9 (B) NMSA 1978 of the Code; and
WHEREAS, the North Corridor Metropolitan Redevelopment Plan proposes activities that will aid in the elimination and prevention of blight conditions including conditions of aging and deteriorating buildings, closure of commercial businesses, deterioration of site improvements and low levels of commercial activity and redevelopment; and
WHEREAS, the North Corridor Metropolitan Redevelopment Plan identifies multiple strategies for revitalization of the area including public infrastructure improvements, implementation of catalytic projects, mitigation of criminal activity, and improving housing availability; and
WHEREAS, investment in and redevelopment of the North Corridor Metropolitan Redevelopment Plan is critical to the sound growth and economic health of the City; and
WHEREAS, implementing the North Corridor Metropolitan Redevelopment Plan is in the interest of public health, safety, and welfare of the residents of Albuquerque.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL, THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF ALBUQUERQUE:
SECTION 1. The City Council, after having conducted a public hearing pursuant to the code, finds that:
A. The proposed redevelopment of the North Corridor Metropolitan Redevelopment Area will aid in the elimination and prevention of blight or conditions which lead to the development of blight;
B. The North Corridor Metropolitan Redevelopment Plan does not require the relocation of any families or individuals from their dwellings; therefore, a method for providing relocation assistance is not required;
C. The North Corridor Metropolitan Redevelopment Plan conforms to the Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Comprehensive Plan;
D. The North Corridor Metropolitan Redevelopment Plan affords maximum opportunity consistent with the needs of the community for the rehabilitation and redevelopment of the North Corridor Metropolitan Redevelopment Area by private enterprise and the objectives of the North Corridor Metropolitan Redevelopment Plan justify the proposed activities as public purposes and needs.
SECTION 2. The North Corridor Metropolitan Redevelopment Plan as attached as Exhibit A, and made a part hereof, is approved in all respects.
SECTION 3. SEVERABILITY CLAUSE. If any section, paragraph, sentence, clause, word or phrase of this resolution is for any reason held to be invalid or unenforceable by any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of this resolution. The Council hereby declares that it would have passed this resolution and each section, paragraph, sentence, clause, word or phrase thereof irrespective of any provisions being declared unconstitutional or otherwise invalid.
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