Adopted City plans to coordinate land use, development, facilities, and resources are of varying rank importance. Lower-ranking plans should be consistent with higher-ranking plans, and when this is indisputably not the case, the conflicting provision of the lower-ranking plan is null and void. Plans should identify how they relate to relevant, higher-ranking plans. Ranked plans shall only contain policy and may not be regulatory. The highest ranks of City plans are as follows in this section and in § 14-13-2-4:
(A) Rank One Plan. The Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Comprehensive Plan is the basic long range city policy for the development and conservation of the entire metropolitan area.
(B) Rank Two Plans.
(1) Facility Plans are specialized in subject matter; they normally cover only one type of natural resource utility or public facility, such as water or parks. Such plans cover the entire metropolitan area or city, or at least a major part thereof. These plans specify important development standards general site locations, and multi-year programs of facility capital improvements.
(C) Rank Three Plans.
(1) Metropolitan Redevelopment Plans provide guidance to the Metropolitan Redevelopment Agency on redevelopment efforts, catalytic projects, and public/private partnerships, subject to amendment per the Metropolitan Redevelopment Agency Ordinance (§14-8-4-3(B)), for an area with common characteristics, typically one square mile but occasionally considerably smaller.
(2) Master Plans provide guidance to the implementing department for the development of a City facility or joint facilities, such as a community center, library, and/or park. Master Plans typically include land uses, site layout, and design standards.
(3) Resource Management Plans provide guidance to the Parks and Recreation Department's Open Space Division about how best to manage and protect natural, historic, or cultural resources on City-owned or City-managed Major Public Open Space (MPOS). Resource Management Plans can also guide the overall planning, visitor uses, budgeting, and decision-making for specific MPOS properties.
('74 Code, § 7-4-2) (Ord. 45- 1982; Am. Ord. 48-1987; Am. Ord. 2017-025)