[Neighbors] Urgent: Councilor Jone's irresponsible amendment to Liquor Retail Ordinance

[Charlie Bennett]

Greetings all,

Councilor Jones’s amendment to the Integrated Development Ordinance
regarding “Liquor Retail” (attached) ignores statistics regarding the
density of retail package liquor sales with increases in criminal behavior
and the deterioration of business corridors and residential neighborhoods.
This amendment favors unregulated private property use protections
regardless of their parasitic effect upon quality of life and sustainable
commerce.  It will override any past Zoning decisions that protected your
neighborhoods from package liquor retailers.
As a whole, our city realizes no profit from any business that inflicts
this burden upon its public.  It is merely a liability that has shown to
have a detrimental effect on any city’s resources.  It is a liability that
diminishes a city’s bond capability to the extent that it begins a spiral
of increasing debt.

This misguided and irresponsible amendment, (*Amendment A to O-17-49*),
will be heard at the next *Land Use Planning, and Zoning Committee (LUPZ)
meeting which will be a ZOOM Video Conference on June 24*.  The meeting
time and sign-in instructions should be available by this Friday, June 19,
at <https://www.cabq.gov/council/events> or <
https://cabq.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx>.  Please sign up to speak.

Call City Council Services, (505) 768-3100 with any questions.

   - Written comment for any LUPZ agenda item may be provided to Crystal
   Ortega, the Clerk of the Council. Send written comments for the record to
   cortega at cabq.gov.
   - To provide real time verbal public comment over Zoom, participants
   must sign up for public comment by 2:00 p.m. on June 10th.
   - Note: Participants must sign up for public comment with the Zoom
   username or phone number that they will be entering the Zoom meeting with
   so that they can be identified when accessing the meeting.  Persons who do
   not provide this information will not be allowed into the meeting, but may
   still view the meeting via the YouTube live link.
   - Participants will standby in the Zoom virtual waiting room until the
   agenda item(s) they signed up for begins. The Zoom moderator will move all
   participants who have signed up for each agenda item into the meeting room
   when that item is up before the committee.
   - Access the Zoom waiting room by following a link that will be provided
   this Friday, entering the room information manually, or by calling in via
   telephone.
   - Although participants will not be able to view the meeting via Zoom
   while idle in the waiting room, participants can watch on YouTube at <
   https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEqpcP42AmnpJPyuOy1jASQ/videos>.

Please share this information amongst your neighbors.  Thank you all for
your continued community engagement.

Yours in Community,
Charlie Bennett
La Mesa Residents Alliance
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