Does New Orleans need A Master Plan?

This house is on Orleans Avenue in an area which received much less water than most.

elevated mess

So why has this house been allowed to be built at a height which is out of scale with the rest of the Neighborhood? Cause there is no review process.

Orleans Ave

Karen Gadbois

Karen Gadbois co-founded The Lens. She now covers New Orleans government issues and writes about land use. With television reporter Lee Zurik she exposed widespread misuse of city recovery funds and led to guilty pleas in federal court. Her work attracted some of journalism's highest honors, including a Peabody Award, an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award and a gold medal from Investigative Reporters and Editors. She can be reached at (504) 606-6013.