(A) The Council finds and determines that the area from the commercial corridor along Interstate-40 at the Juan Tabo exit one block North of Copper; East on I-40 to the Tramway off ramp; South of I-40 along Central Ave.; West with the Southern-most boundary running from Cochiti and Acoma. It also includes the unattached island South of Wenonah; West of Four Hills Road. The East Gateway Designation area further described in Exhibit A to this Resolution, is, by reason of the presence of a substantial number of deteriorated structures, unsafe conditions, deterioration of site and other improvements, obsolete and impractical planning and platting and low levels of commercial activity and redevelopment which substantially impair and arrest the sound growth and economic well-being of the City and the East Gateway Metropolitan Redevelopment Area, constitute an economic and social burden and a menace to the public health, safety, and welfare in its present condition and use, the blighted areas that are appropriate for a metropolitan redevelopment project or projects and are hereby designated the East Gateway Metropolitan Redevelopment Area.
(B) The Council finds that the rehabilitation, conservation, development and redevelopment of and in the East Gateway Redevelopment Area are necessary in the interests of the public health, safety, morals and welfare of the residents of the City.
(C) The Metropolitan Redevelopment Agency is hereby authorized and directed to prepare a Metropolitan Redevelopment Plan or Plans for the East Gateway Area which, without limitation, shall seek to eliminate the problems created by the blighted 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 uses, improved traffic patterns and controls, public transportation, public utilities, recreational and community facilities, housing facilities, commercial activities or enterprises, and other public improvements.
(R-2008-015, approved 1-7-08)
(D) The proposed redevelopment of the East Gateway Metropolitan Redevelopment Area will aid in the elimination and prevention of blight or conditions which lead to development of blight.
(E) The East Gateway Metropolitan Redevelopment Plan does not require the relocation of any families or individuals from their dwellings; therefore, a method for providing relocation assistance is not required.
(F) The East Gateway Metropolitan Redevelopment Plan complements the Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Comprehensive Plan and affords maximum opportunity consistent with the needs of the community for the rehabilitation and redevelopment of the East Gateway Metropolitan Redevelopment Area by public activities and private enterprise; and the objectives of the Plan justify the proposed activities as public purposes and needs.
(G) The East Gateway Metropolitan Redevelopment Area Plan, attached as Exhibit A, and made a part hereof, is approved in all respects.
(R-2016-025, approved 4-4-16; Res. 2017-102, approved 11-13-17)