(A) The City Council finds and determines that the area bounded by Marble/Slate/Lomas Boulevard on the north, the AT&SF railroad tracks/Broadway Boulevard on the east, Coal Avenue on the south, and Tenth/Ninth/Seventh Streets on the west, containing approximately 321 acres, as shown on the map attached to this resolution as Exhibit A, is a slum and blighted area, that redevelopment of the area is necessary in the interest of the public health, safety, and welfare of the residents of the municipality and designates the area as appropriate for metropolitan redevelopment projects.
(B) The Downtown Core, which is described in Section 1, is hereby designated as the Downtown Metropolitan Redevelopment Area.
(C) The Downtown MRA designation supercedes the designation of the Alvarado MRA, which is entirely located within the boundaries of the Downtown MRA, and the boundaries of the McClellan Park MRA and the Railroad MRA are hereby amended to exclude the portions of those metropolitan redevelopment areas that are located within the Downtown MRA.
(D) The entire Downtown MRA is specifically included for purposes of tax increment financing.
(E) The Metropolitan Redevelopment Agency is hereby authorized and directed to prepare or cause to be prepared a Metropolitan Redevelopment Plan for the Downtown Metropolitan Redevelopment Area which, without limitation, shall seek to eliminate the problems created by the slum and blight conditions in the area, shall conform to any general plan for the City as a whole, and shall be sufficient to indicate the proposed activities to be carried out or encouraged in the area and the Plan's relationship to defined local objectives respecting land use, improved traffic patterns and controls, public transportation, public utilities, recreational and community facilities, housing facilities, commercial activities or enterprises, and other public improvements.
(Res. 160-2003, approved 11-20-03)
(F) The City Council, after having conducted a public hearing pursuant to the Code, adopts the Downtown 2025 Metropolitan Redevelopment Plan for the Downtown MRA.
(G) The City Council, after having conducted a public hearing pursuant to the Code, finds that:
(1) The Plan proposes activities for the redevelopment of the Downtown MRA that will aid in the elimination and prevention of slum and blight or conditions, which lead to the development of slum and blight;
(2) The Plan does not require the relocation of any families and individuals from their dwellings and a method for providing relocation assistance is not needed;
(3) The Plan conforms to and complements the Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Comprehensive Plan; and
(4) The Plan affords maximum opportunity consistent with the needs of the community for the rehabilitation or redevelopment of the Downtown MRA by private enterprise or persons, and the objectives of the Plan justify the proposed activities as public purposes and needs.
(Res. 44-2004, approved 5-11-04; Res. 2017-102, approved 11-13-17)
Cross-reference:
Formerly also codified as § 1-7-43
Downtown 2010 Sector Development Plan, § 1-7-43, repealed
Downtown 2025 Sector Development Plan, § 1-4-1, repealed
Downtown Neighborhood Area Redevelopment Plan, § 1-6-1, repealed
Downtown Neighborhood Area (DNA) Sector Development Plan, see § 1-7-4, repealed
Huning Castle and Raynolds Addition Neighborhood Sector Development Plan, see § 1-7-18, repealed
McClellan Park Sector Development Plan, § 1-7-24, repealed
Editor's note: The Downtown 2025 Sector Development Plan land use and development Policies were updated, incorporated into, and replaced by the 2017 Albuquerque-Bernalillo Comprehensive Plan, Council Bill R-16-108 (Enactment No. R-2017-026), approved 4-7-17. See § 1-2-1. The Downtown 2025 Sector Development Plan land use and development Regulations was updated, incorporated into, and replaced by the Integrated Development Ordinance, Ord. 14-16, et seq., Council Bill O-17-49 (Enactment No. 2017-025), approved 11-13-17. See ROA § 14-16-2-4(E).
Editor's note: The Downtown 2025 Metropolitan Redevelopment Plan aspect of the document remains valid to guide the Metropolitan Redevelopment Agency’s work, including infrastructure and catalytic projects, and public/private partnerships, subject to amendment per the Metropolitan Redevelopment Agency Ordinance (§ 14-8-4-3(B)); however, the regulations are now void.