CITY of ALBUQUERQUE
TWENTY SEVENTH COUNCIL
COUNCIL BILL NO. O-26-65 ENACTMENT NO. ________________________
SPONSORED BY: Brook Bassan
ORDINANCE
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Removing § 14-16-6-3(D) Biennial Updates From The Integrated Development Ordinance And Adding A New Process For IDO Updates By The Planning Department And Adding Two Effective Dates Annually (Bassan)
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WHEREAS, the City adopted the Integrated Development Ordinance and repealed the former zoning code on November 13, 2017; and
WHEREAS, the originally adopted IDO contained the description of an Annual Update under § 6-3(D), requiring the Planning Department to submit a package of amendments to the EPC every year; and
WHEREAS, the Annual update was created in order to have a predictable process for the public and the Planning Department to make necessary amendments for cleaning up the newly adopted IDO, as well as proposing policy changes in the development, housing and planning industry; and
WHEREAS, during the 2023 Annual update, Council decided that an annual update was no longer needed and adopted the Biennial Update, where the Planning Department would bring forward the same type of amendment package to Council, but only once every two years in odd-numbered years; and
WHEREAS, during the first Biennial Update in 2025, the amendment package had doubled, bringing forth hundreds of amendments in a single package; and
WHEREAS, Councilors heard from members of the public regarding the size of the amendment package and how difficult it was to analyze the amount of amendments even after months of public education meetings; and
WHEREAS, this Ordinance looks to break down the size of the amendment package by splitting the purpose of the amendments into two different categories: Policy Implementation and Clean Up; and
WHEREAS, the goal of these categories is to split up the amendments that are generally proposed for internal Planning Department efficiencies from the policy-oriented amendments that te...
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