Albuquerque, NM zoning districts

28 districts, 28 with a written citation. Each row says what the district permits by primary use.

City of Albuquerque INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE (IDO), Part 14-16 of the Revised Ordinances of Albuquerque 1994 - the CURRENT EFFECTIVE version, EFFECTIVE MAY 6, 2026, enacted by Ordinance O-26-10 (adopted April 6, 2026) on top of the 2025 Biennial Update O-26-2 (Council approval February 18, 2026). Every page of the adopted document carries the footer 'EFFECTIVE MAY 2026'. The IDO replaced Albuquerque's previous Euclidean zoning code on May 17, 2018 (IDO 14-16-1-5). PERMISSION MECHANISM (verified against the adopted legend at 14-16-4-1(C), NOT assumed): 'P' = Permissive Primary, 'a primary use allowed by right in that zone district, subject to compliance with any Use-specific Standards referenced in the right-hand column' -> BY-RIGHT (use-specific standards in 14-16-4-3 are ministerial and do NOT make a use conditional, per precedent P3). 'C' = Conditional Primary, 'allowed only after the applicant obtains a Conditional Use Approval pursuant to 14-16-6-6(A)' -> CONDITIONAL. 'CV' = allowed only in a structure vacant 5 or more years AND only after a Conditional Use Approval -> CONDITIONAL. This is Will's DELEGATED RULING of 2026-07-27 (research/authoring-precedents.md, 'Delegated rulings - Jul 27 2026'): "the City's own legend defines CV as a conditional class; we never override a publisher's legend." It SUPERSEDES this table's earlier P1 rounding of CV to prohibited and changes exactly two answers - R-1A/R-1B/R-1C/R-1D commercial (Art gallery 'CV') and NR-BP residential (Dwelling, multi-family 'CV'), both now conditional. A full census of Table 4-2-1 run 2026-07-28 found TEN CV cells in the whole table; the other eight sit in Civic and Institutional rows (Museum, University or college, Religious institution, Elementary or middle school, Vocational school, Sports field, Club or event facility, Farmers' market) or in districts whose family is already by-right, so they move nothing. 'A' = Permissive Accessory and 'CA' = Conditional Accessory - both require an allowed Permissive/Conditional PRIMARY use on the lot [14-16-4-1(C)(3)-(4)], so neither establishes a primary-use entitlement. 'T'/'CT' = temporary use under a Permit - Temporary Use [14-16-4-1(C)(6), 14-16-6-5(D)] - not a primary entitlement. BLANK CELL -> PROHIBITED by the code's own exclusive-permission rule, 14-16-4-1(A)(2): 'A blank cell in Table 4-2-1 specifies that the use is not allowed in that zone district' (precedent P19 - a sourced negative, not an assumption). USE-FAMILY ROSTERS (the authoring convention that compresses Table 4-2-1's 127 use rows into the 3-family tri-state, applied uniformly to every row): RESIDENTIAL = the table's own RESIDENTIAL USES section (Household Living + Group Living). COMMERCIAL = the table's own COMMERCIAL USES section EXCEPT four rows: 'Community garden' and 'Compost facility, small/medium', which are horticultural/waste amenity uses the IDO happens to file under Commercial and which are 'P' in nearly every residential district; and 'Residential community amenity, indoor' and 'Residential community amenity, outdoor', which are 'P' in EVERY residential and Mixed-use column (R-A, R-1, R-MC, R-T, R-ML, R-MH, MX-T, MX-L, MX-M, MX-H) and are amenities internal to a residential development, not a commercial pathway. Counting any of the four would make every residential district read 'commercial by-right'. The amenity pair was found and excluded on the 2026-07-28 P32/P33 compliance sweep (the original note recorded only the first two exclusions although the authored answers already reflected all four); it is a CONFIRMING INSTANCE of precedent P32 and it is LOAD-BEARING - counting it would flip R-1A/R-1B/R-1C/R-1D and R-MC commercial to by-right across 7,386 of the city's 16,079 mapped polygons. INDUSTRIAL = the table's own INDUSTRIAL USES section EXCEPT its 'Telecommunications, Towers, and Utilities' sub-group (drainage facility, electric utility, Energy Storage System, major utility, solar/wind energy generation, and the WTF rows). That exclusion is grounded in the IDO's own sub-categorisation - 14-16-2-4(E)(3)(c)(2)(a) refers to 'any use in the Telecommunications, Towers, and Utilities category in Table 4-2-1' as a distinct category - and is necessary because those rows are 'P' in EVERY district including R-1, so counting them would make all 28 districts industrial by-right. CIVIC AND INSTITUTIONAL USES inform category only, never the tri-state. Cited-evidence only: a district with no representable use column (NR-SU, NR-PO-D, PC, PD, UNCL) is authored honest-null with confidence low, never guessed. NO NEW MEXICO STATE-LAW PREEMPTION LAYER IS AUTHORED OR APPLIED: no state-laws/new-mexico.json exists and none is being written in this lane (precedent P21), so this table records the pre-state-law standard case only. Bernalillo County FIPS 35001; the city place name is 'Albuquerque city'. Unincorporated Bernalillo County is zoned by the COUNTY, not by the IDO, and is out of scope for this table.

How to read the permissions

By right — allowed without discretionary approval. Conditional use — allowed only with a specific approval. Not permitted — not allowed as a primary use. Not resolved — the ordinance does not settle it in a way we would state as fact.

These describe the district. A specific parcel can also be affected by overlays, corridors, flood zones and site conditions.

District	Residential	Commercial	Industrial
MX-FB-FX Form-based Flexible Development (MX-FB-FX) commercial mixed	By right	By right	By right
IDO 14-16-2-4(E) (MX-FB, Mixed-use - Form-based) and its Table 2-4-10 'Allowable and Prohibited Uses in the MX-FB Sub-zones'. Note [1] to Table 2-4-9 states that the general Allowable Uses section (14-16-4-2 / Table 4-2-1) applies ONLY in the MX-FB-ID sub-zone; the other sub-zones are governed solely by Table 2-4-10. Table 2-4-10 prohibits, in EVERY MX-FB sub-zone: any use that requires NR-SU zoning, Adult Entertainment, Adult Retail, Paid Parking Lot, Heavy Manufacturing, Special Manufacturing, and Drive-through or drive-up facility. 14-16-2-4(E)(3)(c)(2) further requires all allowable uses to be conducted within a fully enclosed building (listed exceptions only). Rezoning to MX-FB requires a Site Plan - EPC that sets the site/form standards [14-16-2-4(E)(3)(a)]; those are FORM standards, not the use list. MX-FB-FX's Table 2-4-10 cell reads 'All uses unless listed as prohibited', which grounds all three families: residential by-right and commercial by-right (neither family appears in the prohibition list, and 14-16-2-4(E)(1) states the district's purpose is 'to allow a wide range of residential, commercial, and institutional uses'), and industrial by-right because Light manufacturing, Warehousing and Outdoor storage are NOT in the prohibition list. Purpose per 14-16-2-4(E)(3)(b)2: pedestrian-scale mixed-use development in an Area of Change. NUISANCE OVERRIDE (P7): Table 2-4-10 expressly prohibits Heavy Manufacturing and Special Manufacturing in this sub-zone and all uses must be fully enclosed, so the by-right industrial entitlement is light/enclosed - recorded medium-intensity, caveat light-industrial-only. Confidence capped at medium because Table 2-4-10 states allowability without a P/C key, so the by-right vs conditional granularity inside 'all uses' is not specified by the code (see OQ-3).
MX-FB-ID Form-based Infill Development (MX-FB-ID) residential mixed	By right	By right	Conditional use
IDO 14-16-2-4(E) (MX-FB, Mixed-use - Form-based) and its Table 2-4-10 'Allowable and Prohibited Uses in the MX-FB Sub-zones'. Note [1] to Table 2-4-9 states that the general Allowable Uses section (14-16-4-2 / Table 4-2-1) applies ONLY in the MX-FB-ID sub-zone; the other sub-zones are governed solely by Table 2-4-10. Table 2-4-10 prohibits, in EVERY MX-FB sub-zone: any use that requires NR-SU zoning, Adult Entertainment, Adult Retail, Paid Parking Lot, Heavy Manufacturing, Special Manufacturing, and Drive-through or drive-up facility. 14-16-2-4(E)(3)(c)(2) further requires all allowable uses to be conducted within a fully enclosed building (listed exceptions only). Rezoning to MX-FB requires a Site Plan - EPC that sets the site/form standards [14-16-2-4(E)(3)(a)]; those are FORM standards, not the use list. MX-FB-ID's Table 2-4-10 cell reads 'Per MX-T allowable uses in Table 4-2-1, unless listed as prohibited', so this row INHERITS the MX-T tri-state verbatim: residential by-right, commercial by-right, industrial conditional (Artisan manufacturing 'C', Cannabis cultivation 'C'). The Table 2-4-10 prohibition list removes MX-T's Paid parking lot 'C' but changes no family verdict. Nuisance medium-intensity from commercial by-right (P8: the conditional industrial cell does not raise it).
MX-FB-UD Form-based Urban Development (MX-FB-UD) commercial core	By right	By right	By right
IDO 14-16-2-4(E) (MX-FB, Mixed-use - Form-based) and its Table 2-4-10 'Allowable and Prohibited Uses in the MX-FB Sub-zones'. Note [1] to Table 2-4-9 states that the general Allowable Uses section (14-16-4-2 / Table 4-2-1) applies ONLY in the MX-FB-ID sub-zone; the other sub-zones are governed solely by Table 2-4-10. Table 2-4-10 prohibits, in EVERY MX-FB sub-zone: any use that requires NR-SU zoning, Adult Entertainment, Adult Retail, Paid Parking Lot, Heavy Manufacturing, Special Manufacturing, and Drive-through or drive-up facility. 14-16-2-4(E)(3)(c)(2) further requires all allowable uses to be conducted within a fully enclosed building (listed exceptions only). Rezoning to MX-FB requires a Site Plan - EPC that sets the site/form standards [14-16-2-4(E)(3)(a)]; those are FORM standards, not the use list. MX-FB-UD's Table 2-4-10 cell reads 'All uses unless listed as prohibited', which grounds all three families: residential by-right and commercial by-right (neither family appears in the prohibition list, and 14-16-2-4(E)(1) states the district's purpose is 'to allow a wide range of residential, commercial, and institutional uses'), and industrial by-right because Light manufacturing, Warehousing and Outdoor storage are NOT in the prohibition list. Purpose per 14-16-2-4(E)(3)(b)4: a mix of high-density residential and high-intensity non-residential development in areas designated Downtown or Urban Center; this is the Downtown Albuquerque sub-zone (a Civic Plaza point query returns MX-FB-UD). NUISANCE OVERRIDE (P7): Table 2-4-10 expressly prohibits Heavy Manufacturing and Special Manufacturing in this sub-zone and all uses must be fully enclosed, so the by-right industrial entitlement is light/enclosed - recorded medium-intensity, caveat light-industrial-only. Confidence capped at medium because Table 2-4-10 states allowability without a P/C key, so the by-right vs conditional granularity inside 'all uses' is not specified by the code (see OQ-3).
MX-H Mixed-use High Intensity (MX-H) commercial core	By right	By right	By right
IDO Table 4-2-1, MX-H column + 14-16-2-4. Residential by-right (Dwelling multi-family / townhouse / live-work, Dormitory, Group home small+medium 'P'). Commercial by-right across the retail, office, service, lodging and entertainment rows. Industrial BY-RIGHT via Artisan manufacturing 'P' and Cannabis cultivation 'P'. Warehousing 'C' and Outdoor storage 'C'; Light manufacturing 'A' (accessory-only, 14-16-4-1(C)(3), establishes no primary entitlement); Adult retail 'P'. Category commercial-core is a judgment call - MX-H is the highest-intensity mixed-use district and also permits multi-family by right. NUISANCE OVERRIDE (P7): the mechanical ceiling is high-intensity, but Heavy manufacturing and Special manufacturing are BLANK in every MX column (14-16-4-1(A)(2) not allowed) and Light manufacturing is blank or accessory-only, so the by-right industrial entitlement is artisan/craft scale - recorded medium-intensity, caveat light-industrial-only.
MX-L Mixed-use Low Intensity (MX-L) commercial mixed	By right	By right	By right
IDO Table 4-2-1, MX-L column + 14-16-2-4. Residential by-right (Dwelling multi-family / townhouse / live-work, Dormitory, Group home small+medium 'P'). Commercial by-right across the retail, office, service, lodging and entertainment rows. Industrial BY-RIGHT via Artisan manufacturing 'P' and Cannabis cultivation 'P'. Warehousing and Outdoor storage are blank/accessory-only in MX-L; Light manufacturing blank. NUISANCE OVERRIDE (P7): the mechanical ceiling is high-intensity, but Heavy manufacturing and Special manufacturing are BLANK in every MX column (14-16-4-1(A)(2) not allowed) and Light manufacturing is blank or accessory-only, so the by-right industrial entitlement is artisan/craft scale - recorded medium-intensity, caveat light-industrial-only.
MX-M Mixed-use Moderate Intensity (MX-M) commercial mixed	By right	By right	By right
IDO Table 4-2-1, MX-M column + 14-16-2-4. Residential by-right (Dwelling multi-family / townhouse / live-work, Dormitory, Group home small+medium 'P'). Commercial by-right across the retail, office, service, lodging and entertainment rows. Industrial BY-RIGHT via Artisan manufacturing 'P' and Cannabis cultivation 'P'. Warehousing 'C' and Outdoor storage 'C' (conditional, do not raise the ceiling per P8); Light manufacturing blank. NUISANCE OVERRIDE (P7): the mechanical ceiling is high-intensity, but Heavy manufacturing and Special manufacturing are BLANK in every MX column (14-16-4-1(A)(2) not allowed) and Light manufacturing is blank or accessory-only, so the by-right industrial entitlement is artisan/craft scale - recorded medium-intensity, caveat light-industrial-only.
MX-T Mixed-use Transition (MX-T) residential mixed	By right	By right	Conditional use
IDO Table 4-2-1, MX-T column + 14-16-2-4(A). Residential by-right (single-family, two-family, townhouse, multi-family, live-work, Dormitory, Group home small all 'P'). Commercial by-right (Office 'P', Bank 'P', Hotel or motel 'P', Bed and breakfast 'P', Medical or dental clinic 'P', General retail small 'P', Health club 'P', Research or testing facility 'P', Art gallery 'P'; Restaurant / Bar / Tap room / Club or event facility 'C'). Industrial CONDITIONAL: Artisan manufacturing 'C' and Cannabis cultivation 'C' are the only manufacturing-band cells; Light manufacturing, Heavy manufacturing, Warehousing, Outdoor storage and Salvage yard are all blank in MX-T -> not allowed (14-16-4-1(A)(2)). Per precedent P8 a conditional use does not raise the nuisance ceiling, so the ceiling stays at commercial by-right = medium-intensity. Category residential-mixed is a judgment call: MX-T is the residential-to-commercial transition district and permits the full detached-through-multifamily housing ladder by right.
NR-BP Non-residential Business Park (NR-BP) commercial mixed	Conditional use	By right	By right
IDO Table 4-2-1, NR-BP column + 14-16-2-5(B) ('a wide variety of office, commercial, research, industrial, distribution, showroom, processing, and institutional uses' in campus-like settings). Residential CONDITIONAL: the only primary residential cell in the whole NR-BP column is Dwelling, multi-family 'CV' (14-16-4-1(C)(5): allowed only in a structure vacant 5+ years AND only after a Conditional Use Approval under 14-16-6-6(A)); Dwelling, live-work 'CA' is accessory and establishes nothing. Per Will's DELEGATED RULING of 2026-07-27 - "the City's own legend defines CV as a conditional class; we never override a publisher's legend" - CV maps to CONDITIONAL, superseding the draft's earlier P1 rounding to prohibited and closing OQ-2. The IDO's own Use-specific Standard independently corroborates the class, 14-16-4-3(B)(8)(i) verbatim: 'In the NR-BP zone district, this use is allowed as conversions from an existing non-residential development, pursuant to use-specific standards in 14-16-4-3(B)(8)(f) above and shall require a Conditional Use Approval pursuant to 14-16-6-6(A).' READ THIS NARROWLY: it is an adaptive-reuse conversion pathway in a business park, not a green-field housing entitlement. Commercial by-right (Office 'P', Hotel 'P', Hospital 'P', General retail small/large 'P', Adult entertainment 'P', Adult retail 'P'). Industrial BY-RIGHT (Light manufacturing 'P', Warehousing 'P', Artisan manufacturing 'P', Recycling drop-off bin facility 'P'; Salvage yard 'C', Compost facility large 'C'; Heavy and Special manufacturing blank). Category commercial-mixed is a judgment call - the by-right list is genuinely half office/commercial and half light-industrial/distribution.
NR-C Non-residential Commercial (NR-C) commercial core	Not permitted	By right	By right
IDO Table 4-2-1, NR-C column + 14-16-2-5(A) ('medium-scale retail, office, commercial, and institutional uses ... as well as some light industrial uses'). Residential PROHIBITED: every Household Living and Group Living row is blank in NR-C; the only residential-shaped cell is Dwelling, live-work 'CA' (Conditional Accessory, 14-16-4-1(C)(4) - accessory only, establishes no primary residential entitlement). BASIS RE-VERIFIED 2026-07-28 on two independent sources after QA challenged it: a per-word geometric cell extraction of the adopted IDO PDF's Table 4-2-1, and the City's own AllowableUses-NR-BP.pdf column geometry. The QA finding of 2026-07-27 (docs/qa-abq-draft-findings-2026-07-27.md item 1) that 'Dwelling, multi-family is CV in NR-C' is REFUTED - that CV cell sits in the ADJACENT NR-BP column (mark at x=386.9 against the NR-BP header at x=385.1 vs the NR-C header at x=366.3, on a uniform 18.8pt column pitch). The residential blank stated above is the adopted table's own text and stands as written. Commercial by-right across the full retail/office/service/lodging spectrum (General retail large 'P', Grocery store 'P', Office 'P', Hotel or motel 'P', Restaurant 'P', Bar 'P'). Industrial BY-RIGHT: Light manufacturing 'P', Warehousing 'P', Artisan manufacturing 'P', Cannabis cultivation 'P', Recycling drop-off bin facility 'P' (Compost facility large 'C', Outdoor storage 'C'; Heavy and Special manufacturing blank). Nuisance high-intensity is the mechanical derivation from a real by-right light-manufacturing + warehousing entitlement; no override recorded - see OQ-5.
NR-GM Non-residential General Manufacturing (NR-GM) industrial heavy	Not permitted	By right	By right
IDO Table 4-2-1, NR-GM column + 14-16-2-5(D) ('a wide variety of industrial, manufacturing, and heavy commercial uses, particularly those with noise, glare, or heavy traffic impacts'). Residential PROHIBITED (all Household/Group Living rows blank). Commercial by-right (Grocery store 'P', General retail small 'P', Hotel or motel 'P', Adult entertainment 'P', Adult retail 'P', Commercial services 'P', Car wash 'P', Railroad yard 'P'). Industrial BY-RIGHT and HEAVY: Heavy manufacturing 'P' [4-3(E)], Salvage yard 'P', Light manufacturing 'P', Warehousing 'P', Outdoor storage 'P', Compost facility large 'P'; Special manufacturing 'C'. Heavy manufacturing 'P' appears in NO other district column - this is the only industrial-heavy district in the IDO (precedent P2: the matrix cell decides the band).
NR-LM Non-residential Light Manufacturing (NR-LM) industrial light	Not permitted	By right	By right
IDO Table 4-2-1, NR-LM column + 14-16-2-5(C) ('moderate-intensity commercial, light assembly, fabrication, and manufacturing uses'). Residential PROHIBITED (every Household/Group Living row blank -> 14-16-4-1(A)(2)). Commercial by-right (Office 'P', Hotel or motel 'P', Restaurant 'P', Grocery store 'P', General retail small 'P', Adult entertainment 'P', Adult retail 'P', Outdoor vehicle storage 'P', Railroad yard 'P'). Industrial BY-RIGHT: Light manufacturing 'P', Warehousing 'P', Outdoor storage 'P', Compost facility large 'P', Artisan manufacturing 'P', Cannabis cultivation 'P', Recycling drop-off bin facility 'P'; Salvage yard 'C'. Heavy manufacturing and Special manufacturing are BLANK in NR-LM - the district name and the matrix agree here, so industrial-light stands (precedent P2 applied and satisfied).
NR-PO-A Park and Open Space - City-owned or Managed Parks (NR-PO-A) special	Not permitted	Not resolved	Not permitted
IDO Table 4-2-1, NR-PO sub-column A + 14-16-2-5(F)(3)(a) (Sub-zone A: City-owned or Managed Parks). Commercial is NULL BY FINDING (precedent P10): the non-residential cells that ARE permitted in this column are park-amenity and public-event uses (Amphitheater, Club or event facility, Farmers' market, Other indoor/outdoor entertainment, Equestrian facility, General agriculture), which cannot be compressed into a general 'commercial by-right' entitlement without misleading a reader into thinking retail/office/service development is available on parkland. Residential and industrial are PROHIBITED on sourced blanks (every Household Living, Group Living, Manufacturing, Warehousing and Salvage row is blank in the NR-PO columns; 14-16-4-1(A)(2)). site_specific: 14-16-2-5(F)(3)(a) provides that allowable uses other than those listed in Table 4-2-1 are decided by Zoning Map Amendment - EPC/Council and documented in an approved Site Plan, and that development standards in a Master Plan or Resource Management Plan for each facility prevail over IDO standards.
NR-PO-B Park and Open Space - Major Public Open Space (NR-PO-B) special	Not permitted	Not resolved	Not permitted
IDO Table 4-2-1, NR-PO sub-column B + 14-16-2-5(F)(3)(b) (Sub-zone B: Major Public Open Space). Commercial is NULL BY FINDING (precedent P10): the non-residential cells that ARE permitted in this column are park-amenity and public-event uses (Amphitheater, Club or event facility, Farmers' market, Other indoor/outdoor entertainment, Equestrian facility, General agriculture), which cannot be compressed into a general 'commercial by-right' entitlement without misleading a reader into thinking retail/office/service development is available on parkland. Residential and industrial are PROHIBITED on sourced blanks (every Household Living, Group Living, Manufacturing, Warehousing and Salvage row is blank in the NR-PO columns; 14-16-4-1(A)(2)). site_specific: 14-16-2-5(F)(3)(b) provides that uses and development standards in a Resource Management Plan or Master Plan approved by the Open Space Division, or in the Rank 2 Major Public Open Space Facility Plan, PREVAIL over IDO standards.
NR-PO-C Park and Open Space - Non-City Parks and Open Space (NR-PO-C) special	Not permitted	Not resolved	Not permitted
IDO Table 4-2-1, NR-PO sub-column C + 14-16-2-5(F)(3)(c) (Sub-zone C: Non-City Parks and Open Space). Commercial is NULL BY FINDING (precedent P10): the non-residential cells that ARE permitted in this column are park-amenity and public-event uses (Amphitheater, Club or event facility, Farmers' market, Other indoor/outdoor entertainment, Equestrian facility, General agriculture), which cannot be compressed into a general 'commercial by-right' entitlement without misleading a reader into thinking retail/office/service development is available on parkland. Residential and industrial are PROHIBITED on sourced blanks (every Household Living, Group Living, Manufacturing, Warehousing and Salvage row is blank in the NR-PO columns; 14-16-4-1(A)(2)). Unlike sub-zones A and B, 14-16-2-5(F)(3)(c) provides that a Site Plan may specify development standards but 'may not conflict with or reduce other standards in this IDO', so this row is NOT authored site_specific.
NR-PO-D Park and Open Space - City BioPark (NR-PO-D) special Lower confidence — verify against the ordinance before relying on it.	Not resolved	Not resolved	Not resolved
Honest-null BY POLICY (precedent P10/P11). IDO Table 4-2-1 has NO NR-PO-D column - the table's NR-PO group carries only sub-columns A, B and C. 14-16-2-5(F)(3)(d) (Sub-zone D: City BioPark) provides in full: 'Uses and development standards specified in the BioPark Master Plan as approved or amended by the City Arts & Culture Department apply.' The City's own per-district summary (AllowableUses-NR-PO-D.pdf) shows exactly ONE use row - BioPark, 'P (in D)' [4-3(C)(7)]. There is no representable residential/commercial/industrial tri-state; the parcel routes to the BioPark Master Plan. 7 live polygons.
NR-SU Non-residential Sensitive Use (NR-SU) special Lower confidence — verify against the ordinance before relying on it.	Not resolved	Not resolved	Not resolved
Honest-null BY POLICY (precedent P10/P11). IDO Table 4-2-1 has NO NR-SU column - a full-text search of the adopted table returns zero 'NR-SU' occurrences. 14-16-2-5(E)(2) (Use and Development Standards): 'The allowable uses and development standards of this zone district are applied on a case-by-case basis for primary uses that require the NR-SU zone district. Other allowable uses may be negotiated but shall not include any use that is not listed in Table 4-2-1. New development standards may be established or IDO standards may be modified by a Site Plan - EPC.' Per 14-16-2-5(E)(1) the uses that require NR-SU zoning are 'not allowed in other zone districts'. The City's AllowableUses-NR-SU.pdf carries no use table, only Table 2-5-9 stating 'Allowable Uses: As negotiated from among those listed in Section 14-16-4-2'. No tri-state is representable; the parcel routes to its Site Plan - EPC.
PC Planned Community (PC) special Lower confidence — verify against the ordinance before relying on it.	Not resolved	Not resolved	Not resolved
Honest-null BY POLICY (precedent P11). IDO Table 4-2-1 has NO PC column. 14-16-4-1(A)(4)(e): 'Allowable uses in the PC zone district are pursuant to 14-16-2-6(B)(4) (Allowable Uses). Allowable uses and any related standards are documented in the approved Framework Plan for the PC zone district on file with the City Clerk.' The City's AllowableUses-PC.pdf adds that the negotiated 'Framework Plan ... prevail[s] over the IDO' and that 'Where the Framework Plan is silent, IDO standards apply'. Parcel/community-specific negotiated law - honest-null; routes to the Framework Plan. 183 live polygons.
PD Planned Development (PD) special Lower confidence — verify against the ordinance before relying on it.	Not resolved	Not resolved	Not resolved
Honest-null BY POLICY (precedent P11, Dallas-PD precedent). IDO Table 4-2-1 has NO PD column. 14-16-4-1(A)(4)(d): 'Allowable uses in the PD zone district are pursuant to 14-16-2-6(A)(4) (Allowable Uses). Uses approved for each property and any related standards are documented in the approved Site Plan for that property on file with the City Clerk.' The City's AllowableUses-PD.pdf states the allowable uses and development standards 'are applied on a case-by-case basis to reflect a negotiated agreement', that 'Allowable uses may not include any use that is not listed in Table 4-2-1', and that Table 2-6-1 sets Allowable Uses 'As negotiated from among those listed in Section 14-16-4-2'. Parcel-specific negotiated law - the tri-state is not knowable from the table; the parcel routes to its approved Site Plan. 433 live polygons.
R-1A Single-Family (Small Lot) (R-1A/R-1B/R-1C/R-1D share the IDO R-1 use column) residential low	By right	Conditional use	Not permitted
IDO Table 4-2-1 (Part 14-16-4-2), R-1 column + IDO 14-16-2-3(B) (R-1, Residential - Low-Density). Residential BY-RIGHT: Dwelling single-family / two-family (duplex) / cluster development / cottage are 'P' in the R-1 column with no geographic limit (14-16-4-1(C)(1): P = Permissive Primary, allowed by right subject to Use-specific Standards in 14-16-4-3). DENSITY-CLASS REVIEW (2026-07-28, per Will's delegated ruling and docs/qa-abq-draft-findings-2026-07-27.md item 3): Dwelling, townhouse and Dwelling, multi-family are ALSO 'P' in the R-1 column, which read bare would push this district to residential-medium under japanify-schema-spec 1.4 node 7 ('low-rise multifamily / small-lot'). It does not, and the reason is in the code: the Use-specific Standards restrict BOTH cells GEOGRAPHICALLY, not ministerially, so precedent P3 does not reach them. 14-16-4-3(B)(6)(d), verbatim: 'In the R-A and R-1 zone districts, this use [townhouse] is prohibited except in or within 1,320 feet (1/4 mile) of MS-PT areas.' 14-16-4-3(B)(8)(e), verbatim: 'This use [multi-family] is prohibited in the R-A, R-1, and R-T zone districts except in or within 1,320 feet (1/4 mile) of MS-PT areas either north of Central Avenue or east of the Rio Grande.' Neither carve-out can be resolved from the district code alone - it depends on the parcel's distance to a Major/Premium Transit area and on which side of Central Avenue or the Rio Grande it sits. R-1 is therefore a detached/duplex-scale district with a transit-area exception, NOT a district-wide low-rise-multifamily entitlement, and DENSITY CLASS STAYS residential-low. Classing it residential-medium on the bare table cell would over-state entitlement across 46% of the city's mapped polygons. Both quotes were read verbatim from the adopted PDF on 2026-07-28. Commercial CONDITIONAL: the sole commerce-band PRIMARY cell in the R-1 column is Art gallery 'CV' (14-16-4-1(C)(5): allowed only in a structure vacant 5+ years AND only after a Conditional Use Approval under 14-16-6-6(A)). Per Will's DELEGATED RULING of 2026-07-27 - "the City's own legend defines CV as a conditional class; we never override a publisher's legend" - CV maps to CONDITIONAL. This SUPERSEDES the draft's earlier P1 rounding to prohibited and closes OQ-2. Nothing else in the column establishes a commercial pathway: Bed and breakfast 'CA' and Home occupation 'A' are accessory-only (14-16-4-1(C)(3)-(4)), and Residential community amenity, indoor and Residential community amenity, outdoor are 'P' but are EXCLUDED from the commercial family by this table's roster convention: they are amenities internal to a residential development that the IDO happens to file under COMMERCIAL USES, and both are 'P' in EVERY residential and Mixed-use column (R-A, R-1, R-MC, R-T, R-ML, R-MH, MX-T, MX-L, MX-M, MX-H) - the same species as Community garden, and the exact city-wide-hook shape precedent P32 exists to suppress; counting them would read 'commercial by-right' across every residential district in Albuquerque (P32). Industrial PROHIBITED: every Manufacturing/Waste/Wholesaling row is blank in R-1; 14-16-4-1(A)(2) 'A blank cell in Table 4-2-1 specifies that the use is not allowed in that zone district' (exclusive-permission rule, P19). The only industrial-section 'P' cells are the Telecommunications, Towers, and Utilities sub-group (drainage facility, electric utility, ESS, major utility, solar generation), which the IDO itself treats as its own category [14-16-2-4(E)(3)(c)(2)(a)] and which is 'P' in EVERY district - excluded from the industrial family per the authoring convention. NOTE: the current IDO (EFFECTIVE MAY 2026) contains NO R-1A/R-1B/R-1C/R-1D text - a full-document search returns zero hits; those sub-letters are lot-size designations retained on the Official Zoning Map from the 2018 IDO (2018 IDO p.223 R-1A/B/C/D lot widths). All four resolve to the SAME single R-1 use column, which the City's own layer confirms by pointing R-1A/R-1B/R-1C/R-1D at AllowableUses-R-1.pdf. DEAD OFFICIAL LINK, recorded: the City's own IDOUseTableURL for R-1C, documents.cabq.gov/planning/agis/IDO/UseTables/AllowableUses-R-1C.pdf, returns HTTP 404 (observed 2026-07-27 and re-checked 2026-07-28). No cell in this table depends on it - the grounding source is the adopted Table 4-2-1 R-1 column and the layer also lists AllowableUses-R-1.pdf for R-1C.
R-1B Single-Family (Medium Lot) (R-1A/R-1B/R-1C/R-1D share the IDO R-1 use column) residential low	By right	Conditional use	Not permitted
IDO Table 4-2-1 (Part 14-16-4-2), R-1 column + IDO 14-16-2-3(B) (R-1, Residential - Low-Density). Residential BY-RIGHT: Dwelling single-family / two-family (duplex) / cluster development / cottage are 'P' in the R-1 column with no geographic limit (14-16-4-1(C)(1): P = Permissive Primary, allowed by right subject to Use-specific Standards in 14-16-4-3). DENSITY-CLASS REVIEW (2026-07-28, per Will's delegated ruling and docs/qa-abq-draft-findings-2026-07-27.md item 3): Dwelling, townhouse and Dwelling, multi-family are ALSO 'P' in the R-1 column, which read bare would push this district to residential-medium under japanify-schema-spec 1.4 node 7 ('low-rise multifamily / small-lot'). It does not, and the reason is in the code: the Use-specific Standards restrict BOTH cells GEOGRAPHICALLY, not ministerially, so precedent P3 does not reach them. 14-16-4-3(B)(6)(d), verbatim: 'In the R-A and R-1 zone districts, this use [townhouse] is prohibited except in or within 1,320 feet (1/4 mile) of MS-PT areas.' 14-16-4-3(B)(8)(e), verbatim: 'This use [multi-family] is prohibited in the R-A, R-1, and R-T zone districts except in or within 1,320 feet (1/4 mile) of MS-PT areas either north of Central Avenue or east of the Rio Grande.' Neither carve-out can be resolved from the district code alone - it depends on the parcel's distance to a Major/Premium Transit area and on which side of Central Avenue or the Rio Grande it sits. R-1 is therefore a detached/duplex-scale district with a transit-area exception, NOT a district-wide low-rise-multifamily entitlement, and DENSITY CLASS STAYS residential-low. Classing it residential-medium on the bare table cell would over-state entitlement across 46% of the city's mapped polygons. Both quotes were read verbatim from the adopted PDF on 2026-07-28. Commercial CONDITIONAL: the sole commerce-band PRIMARY cell in the R-1 column is Art gallery 'CV' (14-16-4-1(C)(5): allowed only in a structure vacant 5+ years AND only after a Conditional Use Approval under 14-16-6-6(A)). Per Will's DELEGATED RULING of 2026-07-27 - "the City's own legend defines CV as a conditional class; we never override a publisher's legend" - CV maps to CONDITIONAL. This SUPERSEDES the draft's earlier P1 rounding to prohibited and closes OQ-2. Nothing else in the column establishes a commercial pathway: Bed and breakfast 'CA' and Home occupation 'A' are accessory-only (14-16-4-1(C)(3)-(4)), and Residential community amenity, indoor and Residential community amenity, outdoor are 'P' but are EXCLUDED from the commercial family by this table's roster convention: they are amenities internal to a residential development that the IDO happens to file under COMMERCIAL USES, and both are 'P' in EVERY residential and Mixed-use column (R-A, R-1, R-MC, R-T, R-ML, R-MH, MX-T, MX-L, MX-M, MX-H) - the same species as Community garden, and the exact city-wide-hook shape precedent P32 exists to suppress; counting them would read 'commercial by-right' across every residential district in Albuquerque (P32). Industrial PROHIBITED: every Manufacturing/Waste/Wholesaling row is blank in R-1; 14-16-4-1(A)(2) 'A blank cell in Table 4-2-1 specifies that the use is not allowed in that zone district' (exclusive-permission rule, P19). The only industrial-section 'P' cells are the Telecommunications, Towers, and Utilities sub-group (drainage facility, electric utility, ESS, major utility, solar generation), which the IDO itself treats as its own category [14-16-2-4(E)(3)(c)(2)(a)] and which is 'P' in EVERY district - excluded from the industrial family per the authoring convention. NOTE: the current IDO (EFFECTIVE MAY 2026) contains NO R-1A/R-1B/R-1C/R-1D text - a full-document search returns zero hits; those sub-letters are lot-size designations retained on the Official Zoning Map from the 2018 IDO (2018 IDO p.223 R-1A/B/C/D lot widths). All four resolve to the SAME single R-1 use column, which the City's own layer confirms by pointing R-1A/R-1B/R-1C/R-1D at AllowableUses-R-1.pdf. DEAD OFFICIAL LINK, recorded: the City's own IDOUseTableURL for R-1C, documents.cabq.gov/planning/agis/IDO/UseTables/AllowableUses-R-1C.pdf, returns HTTP 404 (observed 2026-07-27 and re-checked 2026-07-28). No cell in this table depends on it - the grounding source is the adopted Table 4-2-1 R-1 column and the layer also lists AllowableUses-R-1.pdf for R-1C.
R-1C Single-Family (Large Lot) (R-1A/R-1B/R-1C/R-1D share the IDO R-1 use column) residential low	By right	Conditional use	Not permitted
IDO Table 4-2-1 (Part 14-16-4-2), R-1 column + IDO 14-16-2-3(B) (R-1, Residential - Low-Density). Residential BY-RIGHT: Dwelling single-family / two-family (duplex) / cluster development / cottage are 'P' in the R-1 column with no geographic limit (14-16-4-1(C)(1): P = Permissive Primary, allowed by right subject to Use-specific Standards in 14-16-4-3). DENSITY-CLASS REVIEW (2026-07-28, per Will's delegated ruling and docs/qa-abq-draft-findings-2026-07-27.md item 3): Dwelling, townhouse and Dwelling, multi-family are ALSO 'P' in the R-1 column, which read bare would push this district to residential-medium under japanify-schema-spec 1.4 node 7 ('low-rise multifamily / small-lot'). It does not, and the reason is in the code: the Use-specific Standards restrict BOTH cells GEOGRAPHICALLY, not ministerially, so precedent P3 does not reach them. 14-16-4-3(B)(6)(d), verbatim: 'In the R-A and R-1 zone districts, this use [townhouse] is prohibited except in or within 1,320 feet (1/4 mile) of MS-PT areas.' 14-16-4-3(B)(8)(e), verbatim: 'This use [multi-family] is prohibited in the R-A, R-1, and R-T zone districts except in or within 1,320 feet (1/4 mile) of MS-PT areas either north of Central Avenue or east of the Rio Grande.' Neither carve-out can be resolved from the district code alone - it depends on the parcel's distance to a Major/Premium Transit area and on which side of Central Avenue or the Rio Grande it sits. R-1 is therefore a detached/duplex-scale district with a transit-area exception, NOT a district-wide low-rise-multifamily entitlement, and DENSITY CLASS STAYS residential-low. Classing it residential-medium on the bare table cell would over-state entitlement across 46% of the city's mapped polygons. Both quotes were read verbatim from the adopted PDF on 2026-07-28. Commercial CONDITIONAL: the sole commerce-band PRIMARY cell in the R-1 column is Art gallery 'CV' (14-16-4-1(C)(5): allowed only in a structure vacant 5+ years AND only after a Conditional Use Approval under 14-16-6-6(A)). Per Will's DELEGATED RULING of 2026-07-27 - "the City's own legend defines CV as a conditional class; we never override a publisher's legend" - CV maps to CONDITIONAL. This SUPERSEDES the draft's earlier P1 rounding to prohibited and closes OQ-2. Nothing else in the column establishes a commercial pathway: Bed and breakfast 'CA' and Home occupation 'A' are accessory-only (14-16-4-1(C)(3)-(4)), and Residential community amenity, indoor and Residential community amenity, outdoor are 'P' but are EXCLUDED from the commercial family by this table's roster convention: they are amenities internal to a residential development that the IDO happens to file under COMMERCIAL USES, and both are 'P' in EVERY residential and Mixed-use column (R-A, R-1, R-MC, R-T, R-ML, R-MH, MX-T, MX-L, MX-M, MX-H) - the same species as Community garden, and the exact city-wide-hook shape precedent P32 exists to suppress; counting them would read 'commercial by-right' across every residential district in Albuquerque (P32). Industrial PROHIBITED: every Manufacturing/Waste/Wholesaling row is blank in R-1; 14-16-4-1(A)(2) 'A blank cell in Table 4-2-1 specifies that the use is not allowed in that zone district' (exclusive-permission rule, P19). The only industrial-section 'P' cells are the Telecommunications, Towers, and Utilities sub-group (drainage facility, electric utility, ESS, major utility, solar generation), which the IDO itself treats as its own category [14-16-2-4(E)(3)(c)(2)(a)] and which is 'P' in EVERY district - excluded from the industrial family per the authoring convention. NOTE: the current IDO (EFFECTIVE MAY 2026) contains NO R-1A/R-1B/R-1C/R-1D text - a full-document search returns zero hits; those sub-letters are lot-size designations retained on the Official Zoning Map from the 2018 IDO (2018 IDO p.223 R-1A/B/C/D lot widths). All four resolve to the SAME single R-1 use column, which the City's own layer confirms by pointing R-1A/R-1B/R-1C/R-1D at AllowableUses-R-1.pdf. DEAD OFFICIAL LINK, recorded: the City's own IDOUseTableURL for R-1C, documents.cabq.gov/planning/agis/IDO/UseTables/AllowableUses-R-1C.pdf, returns HTTP 404 (observed 2026-07-27 and re-checked 2026-07-28). No cell in this table depends on it - the grounding source is the adopted Table 4-2-1 R-1 column and the layer also lists AllowableUses-R-1.pdf for R-1C.
R-1D Single-Family (Extra Large Lot) (R-1A/R-1B/R-1C/R-1D share the IDO R-1 use column) residential low	By right	Conditional use	Not permitted
IDO Table 4-2-1 (Part 14-16-4-2), R-1 column + IDO 14-16-2-3(B) (R-1, Residential - Low-Density). Residential BY-RIGHT: Dwelling single-family / two-family (duplex) / cluster development / cottage are 'P' in the R-1 column with no geographic limit (14-16-4-1(C)(1): P = Permissive Primary, allowed by right subject to Use-specific Standards in 14-16-4-3). DENSITY-CLASS REVIEW (2026-07-28, per Will's delegated ruling and docs/qa-abq-draft-findings-2026-07-27.md item 3): Dwelling, townhouse and Dwelling, multi-family are ALSO 'P' in the R-1 column, which read bare would push this district to residential-medium under japanify-schema-spec 1.4 node 7 ('low-rise multifamily / small-lot'). It does not, and the reason is in the code: the Use-specific Standards restrict BOTH cells GEOGRAPHICALLY, not ministerially, so precedent P3 does not reach them. 14-16-4-3(B)(6)(d), verbatim: 'In the R-A and R-1 zone districts, this use [townhouse] is prohibited except in or within 1,320 feet (1/4 mile) of MS-PT areas.' 14-16-4-3(B)(8)(e), verbatim: 'This use [multi-family] is prohibited in the R-A, R-1, and R-T zone districts except in or within 1,320 feet (1/4 mile) of MS-PT areas either north of Central Avenue or east of the Rio Grande.' Neither carve-out can be resolved from the district code alone - it depends on the parcel's distance to a Major/Premium Transit area and on which side of Central Avenue or the Rio Grande it sits. R-1 is therefore a detached/duplex-scale district with a transit-area exception, NOT a district-wide low-rise-multifamily entitlement, and DENSITY CLASS STAYS residential-low. Classing it residential-medium on the bare table cell would over-state entitlement across 46% of the city's mapped polygons. Both quotes were read verbatim from the adopted PDF on 2026-07-28. Commercial CONDITIONAL: the sole commerce-band PRIMARY cell in the R-1 column is Art gallery 'CV' (14-16-4-1(C)(5): allowed only in a structure vacant 5+ years AND only after a Conditional Use Approval under 14-16-6-6(A)). Per Will's DELEGATED RULING of 2026-07-27 - "the City's own legend defines CV as a conditional class; we never override a publisher's legend" - CV maps to CONDITIONAL. This SUPERSEDES the draft's earlier P1 rounding to prohibited and closes OQ-2. Nothing else in the column establishes a commercial pathway: Bed and breakfast 'CA' and Home occupation 'A' are accessory-only (14-16-4-1(C)(3)-(4)), and Residential community amenity, indoor and Residential community amenity, outdoor are 'P' but are EXCLUDED from the commercial family by this table's roster convention: they are amenities internal to a residential development that the IDO happens to file under COMMERCIAL USES, and both are 'P' in EVERY residential and Mixed-use column (R-A, R-1, R-MC, R-T, R-ML, R-MH, MX-T, MX-L, MX-M, MX-H) - the same species as Community garden, and the exact city-wide-hook shape precedent P32 exists to suppress; counting them would read 'commercial by-right' across every residential district in Albuquerque (P32). Industrial PROHIBITED: every Manufacturing/Waste/Wholesaling row is blank in R-1; 14-16-4-1(A)(2) 'A blank cell in Table 4-2-1 specifies that the use is not allowed in that zone district' (exclusive-permission rule, P19). The only industrial-section 'P' cells are the Telecommunications, Towers, and Utilities sub-group (drainage facility, electric utility, ESS, major utility, solar generation), which the IDO itself treats as its own category [14-16-2-4(E)(3)(c)(2)(a)] and which is 'P' in EVERY district - excluded from the industrial family per the authoring convention. NOTE: the current IDO (EFFECTIVE MAY 2026) contains NO R-1A/R-1B/R-1C/R-1D text - a full-document search returns zero hits; those sub-letters are lot-size designations retained on the Official Zoning Map from the 2018 IDO (2018 IDO p.223 R-1A/B/C/D lot widths). All four resolve to the SAME single R-1 use column, which the City's own layer confirms by pointing R-1A/R-1B/R-1C/R-1D at AllowableUses-R-1.pdf. DEAD OFFICIAL LINK, recorded: the City's own IDOUseTableURL for R-1C, documents.cabq.gov/planning/agis/IDO/UseTables/AllowableUses-R-1C.pdf, returns HTTP 404 (observed 2026-07-27 and re-checked 2026-07-28). No cell in this table depends on it - the grounding source is the adopted Table 4-2-1 R-1 column and the layer also lists AllowableUses-R-1.pdf for R-1C.
R-A Rural and Agricultural (R-A) agricultural	By right	By right	By right
IDO Table 4-2-1, R-A column + 14-16-2-3(A). Residential by-right (Dwelling single-family / two-family / cluster / cottage 'P'). Dwelling, townhouse and Dwelling, multi-family are also 'P' in the R-A column, but 14-16-4-3(B)(6)(d) and 14-16-4-3(B)(8)(e) prohibit them in R-A except within 1,320 feet (1/4 mile) of MS-PT areas - a geographic carve-out the district code cannot resolve; recorded for honesty, and it does not change the tri-state, which the unrestricted cells already carry. Commercial by-right (General agriculture 'P', Nursery 'P', Equestrian facility 'P'; Kennel / Veterinary hospital / Other pet services 'C'). Industrial by-right SOLELY via Compost facility, large 'P' [4-3(D)(2)] - no manufacturing, warehousing, outdoor storage or salvage row is 'P' or 'C' in R-A (all blank -> 14-16-4-1(A)(2) not allowed). NUISANCE OVERRIDE (P7): the mechanical ceiling would be high-intensity, but the single by-right industrial-section use is an agricultural composting operation on rural land, not a manufacturing/warehousing entitlement - recorded as medium-intensity per the 14-16-2-3(A) rural/agricultural purpose. Category 'agricultural' is a judgment call: the district is co-equally residential and agricultural.
R-MC Manufactured Home Community (R-MC) residential low	By right	Conditional use	Not permitted
IDO Table 4-2-1, R-MC column + 14-16-2-3(C). Residential by-right (Dwelling, mobile home 'P' [4-3(B)(2)], Dwelling, single-family 'P', Dwelling, cottage development 'P'). Commercial CONDITIONAL: Art gallery 'C' [14-16-4-1(C)(2): Conditional Primary, allowed only after Conditional Use Approval under 14-16-6-6(A)] is the only commerce-band primary cell that counts; Health club, Paid parking lot, Parking structure, General retail small are 'A' (accessory-only, 14-16-4-1(C)(3) - requires an allowed primary use, so it establishes no primary entitlement), and Residential community amenity, indoor and Residential community amenity, outdoor are 'P' but are EXCLUDED from the commercial family by this table's roster convention: they are amenities internal to a residential development that the IDO happens to file under COMMERCIAL USES, and both are 'P' in EVERY residential and Mixed-use column (R-A, R-1, R-MC, R-T, R-ML, R-MH, MX-T, MX-L, MX-M, MX-H) - the same species as Community garden, and the exact city-wide-hook shape precedent P32 exists to suppress; counting them would read 'commercial by-right' across every residential district in Albuquerque (P32). Industrial prohibited (all manufacturing/warehousing rows blank; 14-16-4-1(A)(2)). Category residential-low is a judgment call (manufactured-home park density sits between low and medium).
R-MH Multi-family High Density (R-MH) residential high	By right	By right	Not permitted
IDO Table 4-2-1, R-MH column + 14-16-2-3(F). Residential by-right (multi-family, townhouse, live-work, Dormitory, Group home small all 'P'; Group home medium/large 'C'). Commercial BY-RIGHT: Art gallery 'P' (Residential community amenity, indoor/outdoor are also 'P' but are excluded from the commercial family city-wide per P32 and ground nothing here) and Bed and breakfast 'P' [4-3(D)(14)] (lodging is a commerce-band use per precedent P4); Park-and-ride lot and Transit facility 'C'. Industrial prohibited (all manufacturing/warehousing rows blank). Nuisance medium-intensity mechanical; see OQ-4.
R-ML Multi-family Low Density (R-ML) residential medium	By right	By right	Not permitted
IDO Table 4-2-1, R-ML column + 14-16-2-3(E). Residential by-right (multi-family, townhouse, single-family, two-family, Dormitory all 'P'; Group home small/medium and Dwelling live-work 'C'). Commercial BY-RIGHT via Art gallery 'P' - the sole COUNTED commerce-band 'P' cell (Museum 'CV' is a Civic and Institutional row and grounds no family; Health club, Paid parking lot, Parking structure 'A' accessory-only; Residential community amenity, indoor/outdoor 'P' excluded from the commercial family city-wide per P32). Industrial prohibited (all manufacturing/warehousing rows blank, 14-16-4-1(A)(2)). Nuisance medium-intensity is the mechanical derivation; see OQ-4.
R-T Townhouse (R-T) residential medium	By right	By right	Not permitted
IDO Table 4-2-1, R-T column + 14-16-2-3(D). Residential by-right (townhouse, single-family, two-family, cluster, cottage all 'P'; Dwelling, live-work 'C'). Dwelling, multi-family is also 'P' but 14-16-4-3(B)(8)(e) prohibits it in R-A, R-1 and R-T except within 1,320 feet of MS-PT areas north of Central Avenue or east of the Rio Grande - a geographic carve-out the district code cannot resolve, recorded here for honesty; it does not change the tri-state, which the unrestricted townhouse/single-family/two-family cells already carry. Commercial BY-RIGHT via Art gallery 'P' [4-3(D)(34)] - the sole COUNTED commerce-band 'P' cell in R-T (no restaurant/bar/retail/office/lodging is allowed; those cells are blank -> 14-16-4-1(A)(2)). The column also carries Residential community amenity, indoor/outdoor at 'P', but those two rows are excluded from the commercial family city-wide by this table's roster convention (P32) and are not the basis of this answer. Industrial prohibited (all manufacturing/warehousing/storage rows blank). Nuisance ceiling medium-intensity is the mechanical derivation from commercial by-right; see OQ-4 - no override is recorded because departing from the rule requires Will's ruling.
UNCL Unclassified - public right-of-way (UNCL) special Lower confidence — verify against the ordinance before relying on it.	Not resolved	Not resolved	Not resolved
Honest-null. UNCL is an ADOPTED Official Zoning Map designation, not a layer bookkeeping artifact: IDO 14-16-2-1(B) provides in full 'Portions of lots within the public right-of-way shall be designated as Unclassified (UNCL) on the Official Zoning Map.' It has no column in Table 4-2-1 and no use list anywhere in the IDO, and the City layer carries an empty IDOUseTableURL for it. A UNCL polygon is street/alley/right-of-way area, not developable private land, so no residential/commercial/industrial tri-state exists to author. 582 live polygons.

Sources

City of Albuquerque Integrated Development Ordinance, Part 14-16 ROA 1994, CURRENT EFFECTIVE version effective May 6, 2026 (Ordinance O-26-10, adopted April 6, 2026; on top of the 2025 Biennial Update O-26-2, Council approval February 18, 2026). Retrieved as the complete 678-page adopted PDF: documents.cabq.gov/planning/IDO/2025_IDO_Update/IDO_2026_Effective-2026-05-06.pdf (retrieved 2026-07-27; every page footer reads 'EFFECTIVE MAY 2026'). Sections used: 14-16-1-5 (Effective Date), 14-16-1-6 (Official Zoning Map), 14-16-2-1 (Zone Districts Established, incl. 2-1(B) UNCL), 14-16-2-3 (Residential zone districts), 14-16-2-4 (Mixed-use zone districts, incl. 2-4(E) MX-FB and Table 2-4-10), 14-16-2-5 (Non-residential zone districts, incl. 2-5(E) NR-SU and 2-5(F) NR-PO sub-zones A-D), 14-16-2-6 (Planned Development zone districts PD/PC), 14-16-4-1 (General: listed uses, unlisted uses, abbreviations P/C/A/CA/CV/T, blank-cell rule), 14-16-4-2 Table 4-2-1 (Allowable Uses - the permitted-use matrix, adopted pages 155-160), 14-16-4-3 (Use-specific Standards).
Table 4-2-1 'Allowable Uses' as printed in the adopted IDO PDF above (pages 155-160), extracted with per-word PDF coordinates against the table's own column geometry. 17 district columns: R-A, R-1, R-MC, R-T, R-ML, R-MH, MX-T, MX-L, MX-M, MX-H, NR-C, NR-BP, NR-LM, NR-GM, and NR-PO sub-columns A / B / C. There is NO column for NR-SU, NR-PO-D, MX-FB, PC, PD or UNCL - verified by full-text search of the adopted table.
22 official per-district 'Allowable Uses' PDFs published by the City at documents.cabq.gov/planning/agis/IDO/UseTables/AllowableUses-<DISTRICT>.pdf - the exact URLs the live zoning layer serves in its own IDOUseTableURL field (retrieved 2026-07-27, all HTTP 200 except AllowableUses-R-1C.pdf which 404s). Each carries the same Table 4-2-1 excerpt with that district's column highlighted. Extracted independently and cross-validated cell-for-cell against the adopted-PDF extraction: 973 of 974 comparable cells AGREE (99.9%); the single difference is a 'Museum' row in the R-T column, a civic/institutional row that grounds no tri-state. This is the precedent-P20 dual-source cross-validation.
Live City of Albuquerque IDO zoning layer - coageo.cabq.gov/cabqgeo/rest/services/agis/IDO_Zoning/FeatureServer/0 (fields IDOZoneDistrict = the district code, IDODistrictDefinition = the City's own district name, IDOCategory, IDOUseTableURL, OldZoningDesignation). 28 distinct IDOZoneDistrict values across 16,079 polygons, pulled 2026-07-27; per-code polygon counts recorded in the sources file. This is the registry entry's own runtime zoning source for Bernalillo County FIPS 35001.
NEGATIVE FINDING, deliberately recorded: the IDO does NOT impose any jurisdiction-mandated accuracy or liability disclaimer for its published zoning map. 14-16-1-6 (Official Zoning Map) is two short subsections - 1-6(A) applies district/overlay/landmark standards to the areas so shown, and 1-6(B) incorporates the Official Zoning Map into the IDO and provides that 'The latest version of the Official Zoning Map as approved or amended by City Council or the Environmental Planning Commission (EPC) ... is maintained in electronic form by the City Planning Department.' There is no required notice text anywhere in 14-16-1. The only accuracy statement located on any City surface is an advisory on the City's IDO Maps page that the downloadable Zone Atlas is 'Updated annually, so be sure to check one of the online maps above for the latest zoning information' - guidance, not an ordinance-mandated disclaimer. No disclaimer was invented; see the sources file for the search path.
FREEZE-PASS VERIFICATION (2026-07-28, independent of the drafting pass). (a) ADOPTION - VERIFIED. The City's own IDO page (www.cabq.gov/planning/codes-policies-regulations/integrated-development-ordinance-1/integrated-development-ordinance, retrieved 2026-07-28) states verbatim under IDO Legislative History: 'Effective May 6, 2026, the City Council adopted Ordinance 26-10 on April 6, 2026.' and under IDO Effective Document: 'Applications submitted on and after May 6, 2026 will be reviewed against the regulations in the document below.' The document it links is documents.cabq.gov/planning/IDO/2025_IDO_Update/IDO_2026_Effective-2026-05-06.pdf (HTTP 200, 23,832,206 bytes, 678 pages, re-retrieved 2026-07-28) - the SAME PDF this table is authored against. This is ADOPTED, OPERATIVE LAW, not a proposal. The 'Effective Draft - April 2026' stamp flagged in QA sits on the City's per-district AllowableUses-*.pdf SUMMARIES, which are the cross-validation source, not the grounding source; 'EffectiveDraft' is the City's own long-standing filename label for an EFFECTIVE document (see IDO-2020AnnualUpdate-2021-07-16-EffectiveDraft.pdf listed under Legislative History as an effective document). (b) INDEPENDENT RE-DERIVATION. Table 4-2-1 was re-extracted 2026-07-28 by per-word geometric cell extraction of the adopted PDF (pages 189-194 of the file, 17 district columns anchored on the printed rotated headers, 194 label bands) and all 17 columns' tri-states were re-derived mechanically from the documented rosters. The re-derivation reproduced EVERY authored cell once (i) the CV ruling, (ii) the Residential-community-amenity roster exclusion and (iii) the NR-PO null-by-finding compression are applied. (c) QA ITEM 1 REFUTED. The 2026-07-27 QA finding that 'Dwelling, multi-family is CV in NR-C' is WRONG on two independent sources: in the adopted PDF that CV cell sits in the NR-BP column, and in the City's own AllowableUses-NR-BP.pdf the multi-family row's CV mark is at x=386.9 against a NR-BP column header at x=385.1 and a NR-C header at x=366.3 (18.8pt column pitch, uniform +4.6pt mark offset) - unambiguously NR-BP. NR-C carries no primary residential cell at all; its only residential-shaped cell is Dwelling, live-work 'CA'. The NR-C row's stated basis therefore stands unchanged. (d) DEAD LINK RE-CONFIRMED. AllowableUses-R-1C.pdf still returns HTTP 404 (checked 2026-07-28); no citation in this table depends on it - R-1C is grounded on the adopted Table 4-2-1 R-1 column, and the City's layer also lists AllowableUses-R-1.pdf for that district. (e) DETROIT-PRECEDENT / MAP-DISCLAIMER CHECK. 14-16-1-6 (Official Zoning Map) was read verbatim in the adopted PDF this pass: it is exactly two subsections - 1-6(A) applies district standards to the areas shown on the Official Zoning Map, and 1-6(B) incorporates the Map and states it 'is maintained in electronic form by the City Planning Department'. NEITHER imposes any accuracy, liability or disclaimer obligation. The IDO mandates NO map-accuracy disclaimer; the prior finding is confirmed and no notice is authored (Cleveland/Detroit precedent). (f) P29 LIVE RE-PULL. The live IDO_Zoning layer was re-queried 2026-07-28 with returnDistinctValues=true: 28 distinct IDOZoneDistrict values, byte-identical to the set recorded in research/albuquerque-nm-live-base-codes.json.

Table verified against the sources above on 2026-07-28. Ordinances change, so check the current code before relying on any row for a decision.

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