The neighborhood association is pushing for Audubon Charter School, which wants to open a second location.
Category: Land Use
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Whole-house rentals got you down? Get hip to ‘creative disruption’!
Maybe an absentee landlord will let me rent my former home on weekdays.
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Media focus on violent protests ignores the notably peaceful ones
Pondering the recent Take ‘Em Down NOLA march to Jackson Square
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Short-term rental vote deals a blow to neighborhoods — and citizen engagement
Absentee landlords and whole house Airbnb rentals hollow out communities.
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Calling on a higher power to save a jazz landmark: Buddy Bolden’s home
Owned by Greater St. Stephen, the crumbling Bolden home lacks even a plaque.
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Whole-home short-term rentals: quick cash, long-term damage to the city
A landlord calls for banning a rental option that would increase his cash flow.
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Neighbors fight plans to turn former Sacred Heart gym into apartments
Foes cite gym’s architectural significance and traffic impact on nearby public school.
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Save the Eagle Saloon! (From Whom?)
The save-the-saloon initiative is being perpetrated by the very people the buildings need to be saved from.
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Partly hidden mural breathes with spirit of 1970 Black Panther standoff
A relic from the era of Black militancy warrants the attention of scholars and preservationists.
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
What would Jane Jacobs make of our post-Katrina transition from ‘death’ to ‘life’?
A look at the post-Katrina city through the eyes of urban planning’s most important 20th-century visionary.