Minority residents target zoning rules in civil rights claim
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April 12, 2018
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Zoning laws in New Mexico's largest city are discriminatory and leading to the erosion of one of the oldest and most historic neighborhoods in Albuquerque, a group of residents alleged Wednesday as they asked federal housing authorities to launch an investigation.
The Historic Neighborhood Alliance and the Martineztown Working Group in a civil rights complaint said Martineztown lacks the zoning protections that the city has instituted for more affluent and less diverse neighborhoods.
Martineztown was settled around the time the United States acquired the land from Mexi...
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