IDO needs to be delayed, studied

I AM writing to say that I and my neighbors feel manipulated and angry over this mayoral administration’s/city planners’ attempt to effect massive zone changes affecting all of us in Albuquerque by presenting massive documents than only developers and citizens with unlimited time and some experience can understand.

I imagine that only maybe one in a 1,000 residents knows that the documents (The Integrated Development Ordinance) exist and fewer have any idea what is in really them. It is obvious that this is being pushed through the City Council before the next mayor is elected and sworn in.

I have attended many meetings in our neighborhood and with the Environmental Planning Commission, Land Use Planning and Zoning Committee and City Council since 2015. Every time there are questions, amendments and multiple conversations about changes that will affect historic neighborhoods, view concerns, density concerns, etc. These discussions are not finished. We need a postponement of at least 90 days to see what a new administration has to say, ways to condense a massive document into understandable language and meetings with each neighborhood to develop plans acceptable to the residents, the city and developers. Please do not pass this now. It is incomplete. MARIANNE BARLOW Albuquerque