CITY of ALBUQUERQUE
TWENTY SIXTH COUNCIL
COUNCIL BILL NO. R-25-135 ENACTMENT NO. ________________________
SPONSORED BY: Nichole Rogers, by request
RESOLUTION
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Approving An Amendment To The Boundary Of The Sycamore Metropolitan Redevelopment Area To Include Approximately 5 Additional Adjacent Lots Totaling 0.80+/- Acres (Rogers, by request)
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WHEREAS, the City of Albuquerque (the "City") is a legally and regularly created, established, organized and existing municipal corporation of the State of New Mexico (the "State"); and
WHEREAS, the City desires to promote redevelopment in areas designated as blighted so as to promote neighborhood stabilization by providing affordable housing, convenient services, creating new jobs, upgrading buildings, infrastructure, and housing for such areas and to promote public health, welfare, safety, convenience, and prosperity; and
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Redevelopment Code, Sections 3-60A-1 through 3-60A-48, New Mexico Statutes Annotated, 1978 Compilation, as amended (the "Act"), states "A municipality shall not prepare a metropolitan redevelopment plan for an area unless the governing body by resolution determined the area to be a slum or a blighted area, or a combination thereof, and designated the area as appropriate for a metropolitan redevelopment project;" and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 30-60A-8 NMSA 1978 of the Metropolitan Redevelopment Code, the Council caused to be twice published in the Albuquerque Journal, a newspaper of general circulation in the metropolitan redevelopment area hereinafter identified, with the last publication no less than 20 days before any hearing on this matter, a notice containing a general description of the proposed metropolitan redevelopment area and date, time and place where the Council will hold public hearings to consider the adoption of this resolution and announcing that any interested party may appear and speak to the issue of the adoption ...
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