Proposed zoning ordinance amendments: a gift to the booze biz; raw deal for neighborhoods
Council member's 11th hour CZO tweaks sabotage efforts to control club noise and neighborhood liquor outlets.
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Land Use
Reporting on how land, space, and development shape the future of New Orleans. This category examines zoning decisions, neighborhood planning, environmental impact, and the balance between growth and preservation—highlighting who benefits, who’s affected, and what’s at stake.
Scramble for variances already making a mockery of the city’s new zoning code
The new CZO could end up being little more than a ream of wasted paper.
Preservation pit bull Bill Borah says new zoning code should trigger Master Plan update
In amending the Charter voters expressed disenchantment with pre-Katrina's ad hoc, special-interest-driven planning process.
Judge delays city from seizing long-vacant Lake Terrace Shopping Center
The city kicked in $225,000 to renovate the property after Katrina, but it’s languished.
Long-shuttered Lake Terrace Shopping Center avoids seizure by the city, for now
Property received at least $225,000 in city money but little has been done since Katrina.
Plea to City Council: Don’t pave our parks! Let the public have a say in what goes where
A simple fix to the draft CZO could save New Orleans parks from creeping commercialism the public doesn't want.
Sitting ducks: FEMA elevation standards leave us vulnerable to the next big flood
Should we elevate houses against worst-case floods or the statistically average hurricane inundation? It makes a big difference.
Shabby chic gives way to merely chic: How come? It’s the economy, stupid
In reality, much of the trumpeted social healing of our ancient problems amounts to little more than optics, the columnist argues.
The Urban Conservancy’s Dana Eness is April’s Newsmaker (video)
Join us to talk about concrete front lawns on April 16.
Ghost condos haunt the New Orleans market — a dubious development
Pieds-à-terre left largely empty by well-to-do owners drive up costs for full-time city residents.
