Cross-cutting development process documents, manuals, and reference materials.
Current City Review Process#
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Organizes Albuquerque’s current review sections, ABQ-PLAN electronic submittals, hydrology and transportation resources, impact fees, construction coordination, interactive plan map, and Planning Department navigator assistance.
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Online Planning Services, Permitting & Applications — Live City Services
Connects land-use and zoning applications, building permits, business licensing and code-enforcement services with the City’s online systems. Residents can also search permits, applications, licenses and violation records, while applicants can upload documents and track review progress. This service gateway complements the review-section overview above.
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Neighborhood Association Websites (live City directory)
The City Office of Neighborhood Coordination links websites submitted by recognized neighborhood associations. Associations maintain their own sites; the directory excludes HOA websites.
Use the recognized association and coalition map to explore neighborhood geography.
Development Policy References#
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Official Albuquerque Plant Palette and Sizing List (2018 Archived PDF)
Establishes the City official plant palette and sizing list, rating trees and plants as generally or conditionally recommended, noting vitality issues, and setting the planting sizes accepted in City landscape review.
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City Annexation Policies Resolution R-54-1990 (Archived PDF)
Adopts City of Albuquerque policies on annexation and repeals previous annexation policies, setting out the comprehensive-plan area designations, urban-service considerations, and statutory annexation methods the City applies.
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Establishes the three criteria the City applies before requiring a City-sponsored facilitated meeting with neighborhood associations under the Integrated Development Ordinance, covering project complexity, decision-making authority, and likelihood of productive negotiation.
Community and Small-Business Process Reviews#
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Neighborhood Task Force Final Report to the City Council (2007 Archived PDF)
The Council-appointed task force reports on five assigned topics covering the function and role of the Office of Neighborhood Coordination, neighborhood association recognition, notification requirements, and the relationship between neighborhood organizations and the City development review process.
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The City Council staff report reviews the Small Business Resource Fair, setting out the local small business context, what the fair delivered, participant and partner feedback, and recommendations for future City support of small businesses.
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The appendix volume to the Council small business report opens with enacted Resolution R-2018-081, which directs the Economic Development Department to convene a micro-enterprise development fair with local and state partners, and carries the supporting materials.
Development Process Manual#
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Development Process Manual (June 2, 2020)
Provides the City’s technical requirements and procedures for planning, designing, reviewing, permitting, and constructing public infrastructure associated with development projects.
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Current Development Process Manual Amendments Register
Maintains proposed and approved changes to the DPM. Check this live register with the archived signed manual and amendments below because later committee actions may change individual chapters or technical requirements.
Historic Manual Chapters#
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Preserves the 2015 City drainage chapter governing grading, floodplains, erosion control, stormwater pollution prevention, detention, drainage reports, facilities, and development-review obligations before the later manual revision.
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Development Process Manual Chapter 17: Drainage and Transportation Procedures (2018 Archived PDF)
Preserves pre-2020 City procedures for drainage and Traffic Circulation Layout submittals, engineering review, approvals, expiration, construction certification, private storm drains in rights-of-way, and the forms used to coordinate development with public infrastructure.
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Development Process Manual Intersection Design Final-Review Draft (2017 Archived PDF)
Preserves a 2017 draft predecessor to current City intersection standards, addressing signals, stop and yield control, roundabouts, channelized turns, spacing, sight distance, accessibility, pedestrian crossings, bicycle lanes, and development responsibilities.
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Preserves the adopted predecessor standards for landscaping, irrigation, street trees, sight-distance triangles, medians, buffers, and maintenance within Albuquerque public rights-of-way before the consolidated 2020 Development Process Manual.
Archived Approved Amendments#
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Article 4-3 ABCWUA Changes (May 4, 2026 archived PDF)
Preserves the DPM amendment approved May 4, 2026, revising Article 4-3 graphic standards and related plan-scale, line-weight, AutoCAD, and Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority requirements.
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Approved Municipal Development Changes (December 11, 2025 archived PDF)
Preserves the full marked Development Process Manual showing Municipal Development changes approved December 11, 2025, so users can identify post-2020 revisions affecting public-infrastructure design, review, construction, and related technical standards.
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Approved Planning and Municipal Development Changes (September 25, 2025 archived Word document)
Preserves the full tracked-change Development Process Manual approved September 25, 2025, including updates to City review bodies, ABQ-PLAN procedures, site and infrastructure review, and green stormwater requirements.
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Collects five official committee records tracing the committee’s launch, the voiding and re-adoption of its first chapter changes, and approval of the Development Process Manual preface and update procedure.
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Collects seven official committee records documenting the planned division of the manual between the Integrated Development Ordinance and a technical standards manual, Chapter 23 subcommittee work, and Chapter 25 revisions.
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Collects nine official committee records tracing Chapter 28’s adoption, section-by-section approval of Chapter 22, stormwater modeling discussions, and the appointment of subcommittees for Chapters 24, 25, and 26.
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Collects fifteen official committee records documenting completion of drainage standards, approval of survey, public-transit, parking, pedestrian, pavement, and building-permit provisions, and continuing review of network-connectivity and drafting standards.
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Collects three official committee minutes plus the April 4 agenda preserved under the missing-minutes policy, documenting network-connectivity, intersection-design, construction-plan, and subdivision-compliance decisions and the final unfinished agenda items.
Historic Preservation and Overlay-Zone Guidance#
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Silver Hill Historic Overlay Zone Design Guidelines: Early Automobile Suburbs (Archived PDF)
A ninety-six-page City Planning handbook of development guidelines for the Silver Hill historic zone, covering the early automobile suburb context, building types, materials, additions, landscaping, and review expectations for property owners.
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Historic Old Town Development Standards and Guidelines (HPO-5) (2018 Archived PDF)
Sets the Old Town development standards and guidelines effective May 17, 2018, covering the applicability area, Spanish Colonial, Territorial and Western Victorian architectural style standards, building setbacks, and Landmarks Commission review.
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Historic Protection Overlay Zones Citywide Map (2018 Archived PDF)
Maps all six Albuquerque historic protection overlay zones citywide as of May 2018, showing Old Town, 8th and Forrester, Fourth Ward, Huning Highland, EDo, and Silver Hill boundaries against the street and parcel network.
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Eighth and Forrester Historic Protection Overlay Zone Map (2018 Archived PDF)
Maps parcel-level boundaries of the Eighth and Forrester historic protection overlay zone as of May 2018, identifying each address within the zone between Mountain Road, Lomas Boulevard, 7th Street, and 11th Street.
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Fourth Ward Historic Protection Overlay Zone Map (2018 Archived PDF)
Maps parcel-level boundaries of the Fourth Ward historic protection overlay zone as of May 2018, identifying each address within the zone for Landmarks Commission review of building projects.
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Huning Highland and EDo Historic Protection Overlay Zone Map (2018 Archived PDF)
Maps parcel-level boundaries of the Huning Highland and EDo historic protection overlay zones as of May 2018, identifying each address subject to Landmarks Commission review within the zones.
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Old Town Historic Protection Overlay Zone Map (2018 Archived PDF)
Maps parcel-level boundaries of the Old Town historic protection overlay zone as of May 2018, replacing the former H-1 zone and buffer designation with the HPO-5 overlay boundary.
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Silver Hill Historic Protection Overlay Zone Map (2018 Archived PDF)
Maps parcel-level boundaries of the Silver Hill historic protection overlay zone as of May 2018, identifying each address subject to Landmarks Commission review within the zone.
Public Infrastructure Cost Estimating#
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Sets City rules adopted under Revised Ordinances Section 7-20-5 for negotiating consultant compensation as a percentage of estimated construction cost, covering negotiation limits, scope definition, special studies, alternative methods, and biennial percentage review. Official City PDF
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City Engineer’s Estimated Unit Prices for Contract Items, 2026 (archived PDF)
Sets the City’s 2026 estimated construction costs for public-infrastructure contract items, including paving, traffic control, structures, drainage, utilities, landscaping, and the financial-guarantee calculations required for development projects.
Effective August 1, 2026. Official City PDF · Official Development Review Services document library
Development Review Requirements and Agreements#
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Design Review and Construction (DRC) Jurisdiction Memorandum, August 25, 2026 (Archived PDF)
The Planning Department memorandum identifies projects requiring Design Review and Construction plan approval and a City work order, listing twelve triggers covering paving, sidewalks, curb and gutter, signals, markings, and related improvements.
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The agreement binds a developer to fund public infrastructure that Albuquerque constructs under a City contract, setting deposit, bid, construction, and reimbursement terms for Procedure C.
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Revocable Permit Submittal Requirements, April 2020 (Archived PDF)
The City sheet states what a right-of-way encroachment permit costs and requires, including ten-year renewal, a $500 administrative fee, annual square-foot fees, and exhibit requirements.
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Hydrology Review Fees, 2024 (Archived PDF)
The Planning Department schedule sets 2024 hydrology review charges for conceptual grading and drainage plans, drainage reports, preliminary and final plats, and resubmittals, scaled by lot count.
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The enacted ordinance rewrites the former Zoning Code’s wireless telecommunications regulations, including concealment, collocation, public utility collocation, and free-standing facility definitions and standards.
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The codified former zoning regulations set wireless-facility concealment requirements, height and setback standards, collocation rules, application procedures, approval criteria, and abandonment obligations.
Infrastructure Improvements Agreements#
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Current City Infrastructure Improvements Agreement Forms Directory
Provides the City’s maintained source directory for Procedure A and Procedure B agreements, financial-guaranty variants, and extension forms. Check this directory for revisions newer than the March 2021 editions preserved below.
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Assignment and Amendment to Agreement to Construct Infrastructure Improvements (Archived PDF)
Provides the City form for assigning and amending an agreement to construct infrastructure improvements, including the county clerk recording label, assignment terms, and amendment provisions used in development infrastructure agreements.
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Procedure A Agreement — March 2021 (archived PDF)
Provides the City’s March 2021 Procedure A agreement for developer-funded public improvements constructed on City property or within utility easements through the work-order process.
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Procedure A Amendment and Extension Agreement — March 2021 (archived PDF)
Supplies the March 2021 amendment form for extending Procedure A construction deadlines and updating contractor bonding, work-order, inspection, acceptance, and maintenance obligations.
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Procedure A Agreement with Financial Guaranty — March 2021 (archived PDF)
Provides the March 2021 Procedure A agreement variant documenting financial security for developer-funded public improvements, construction deadlines, work orders, bonding, inspections, and acceptance.
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Procedure A with Financial Guaranty Amendment and Extension — March 2021 (archived PDF)
Supplies the March 2021 form for extending a financially guaranteed Procedure A agreement while updating completion deadlines, guaranty details, contractor bonds, and construction obligations.
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Procedure B Agreement — March 2021 (archived PDF)
Provides the City’s March 2021 Procedure B agreement for required public or private improvements tied to plats, building permits, site plans, deadlines, and financial guarantees.
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Procedure B Amendment and Extension Agreement — March 2021 (archived PDF)
Supplies the March 2021 form for extending Procedure B improvement deadlines and recording updated financial guarantees, contractor bonding, work-order requirements, and amended construction commitments.
Fees#
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City of Albuquerque General Planning Fee Schedule (January 2025 archived PDF)
Lists application, notice, meeting, review, resubmittal, appeal, permit, plat, site-plan, historic-preservation, impact-fee, zoning, subdivision, hydrology, and transportation charges used in the City development-review process as of January 17, 2025.
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Bernalillo County Public Works Division Fee Schedule (July 2024 Archived PDF)
Lists Bernalillo County Public Works fees for drainage review, grading and paving permits, infrastructure design review, utilities, driveways, excavation, traffic barricading, review extensions, moratorium work, and non-County-sponsored projects as of July 24, 2024.
Official County PDF · Check the current County standards page
County Development Review#
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Bernalillo County Traffic Impact Analysis
Explains when development in unincorporated Bernalillo County requires transportation-impact analysis and connects applicants to the County’s review process, technical expectations, transportation planning, and development standards.
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Establishes Bernalillo County Public Works submittal and development requirements for utility-scale solar, community solar, and battery storage in unincorporated areas, covering site plans, drainage, traffic, environmental review, decommissioning, construction, operations, and financial assurance.
Official County PDF · Check the current County standards page
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Stormwater Management Guidance for Large-Scale Ground-Mounted Solar Arrays (March 2025 Archived PDF)
Sets Bernalillo County criteria for grading and drainage review of ground-mounted photovoltaic arrays, including slopes, soils, setbacks, runoff calculations, vegetation, erosion controls, green stormwater infrastructure, maintenance, inspections, and post-construction monitoring.
Official County PDF · Check the current County standards page
Infrastructure Financing#
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Albuquerque Public Improvement Districts
Explains how Albuquerque creates and governs public improvement districts to finance streets, trails, utilities, parks, public buildings, and other infrastructure through property taxes, assessments, bonds, petitions, hearings, and elections.