Trustees accept many sign‑code edits but defer full zoning rewrite to October

The Village of Los Ranchos de Albuquerque on Tuesday approved a string of technical and policy amendments to a sweeping zoning and sign‑code update, but the Board of Trustees paused final passage of the full ordinance to allow more public review.

Shana Schultz, the village’s zoning and planning director, told trustees the update was twofold: to centralize and clean up the code’s definitions and to overhaul the sign chapter to remove ambiguities that have raised legal and enforcement issues. "A lot of revisions to the code are just to make it clearer," Schultz said, urging trustees to focus on sections that create enforcement confusion.

Trustees spent much of the evening walking through staff‑proposed amendments labeled A through M. Several policy changes stood out: the board approved deletion of content‑based examples from the temporary‑sign rules and created a new rule that temporary signs of small size…