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Residents and business owners urge county not to support downtown 2025 plan changes they say would shift MRA boundaries and raise property taxes
Summary
Public commenters told commissioners the newly released Downtown 2025 ABQ redevelopment plan risks gentrification and that the county and city did not consult adjacent neighborhoods before proposing boundary changes affecting Martinez Town/Santa Barbara MRA parcels.
Two speakers during public comment at the Bernalillo County commission meeting on May 13 urged the commission to refrain from supporting recent changes in the Downtown 2025 ABQ redevelopment plan, asserting those changes would remove parcels from the Martinez Town/Santa Barbara municipal redevelopment area (MRA) and shift tax benefits away from the neighborhood.
Bianca Encinas, owner of El Chante Casa Cultura and a…
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