(A) The Mayor, the Metropolitan Environmental Health Advisory Board, the Environmental Planning Commission, and the Bernalillo County Planning Commission shall be charged with monitoring of the implementation of the Comprehensive Policies Plan previously adopted by the City Council and the Board of Commissioners. Said implementation shall be aggressively pursued in light of worsening air pollution in the area. Furthermore, the enforcement and monitoring of this effort shall be instituted immediately and rated as high priority. The Mayor and others charged by this section are furthermore urged to support and encourage the many efforts that are already part of the city's governmental planning process which includes:
(1) The Metropolitan Environmental Health Advisory Board's role in advising the Environmental Planning Commission on matters that may have an impact on air quality such as major residential, commercial, or industrial development plans and master plan review.
(2) Enhancement of traffic flow by the implementation of designs to maximize the available resources in the incorporation of synchronized traffic signals to reduce travel times and delays which would otherwise add to the air pollution burden.
(3) Required paving of streets and parking lots to minimize dust emissions within the planning and air pollution control jurisdiction.
(4) Discouragement of strip zoning and developments which proliferate urban sprawl by carefully administering zoning codes and laws.
(5) Providing alternate modes of transportation through expansion of the transit system, encouraging use of car pools, and construction and design of a bicycle lane network.
(B) By the adoption of this section, the City Council is going on record as re-enforcing the Comprehensive Policies Plan, and particularly portions excerpted from it and attached as part of Resolution No. 36-1980 shall be recognized as essential policies necessary to reduce air pollution. Be it hereby acknowledged that each of these excerpted policies are presently in force throughout all planning activities by the city. It is further resolved that the Council desires that these specific policies be followed closely by staff departments of the city to assure compliance with the spirit and intent of the Comprehensive Policies Plan.
(C) Those departments designated by the Mayor's Chief Administrative Officer as individual or joint lead cognizant organizations responsible for each section of the Comprehensive Policies Plan herein emphasized as necessary to reduce air pollution shall monitor the compliance with these aforementioned policies and report at least once each year to the CAO as to the status of major actions and developments occurring in the city and county. Said report shall detail those projects which compliment these policies or identify those that were denied or significantly modified in order to comply with said policies plan subsections.
(Res. 36-1980, approved 2-12-80)