Live blog: Planning Commission considers selling Newcomb Boulevard to residents
Residents want to buy the street so they can keep up a fence blocking one end.
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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.
Holy Cross residents say PR campaign is ginning up support for riverfront development
A battle over perception is brewing where the Industrial Canal meets the river. A developer wants to put apartment buildings on the old site of the Holy Cross school. Neighbors say the project doesn’t fit their neighborhood, and their voices are being drowned out by a public-relations campaign.
Planning Commission staff recommends not selling Newcomb Blvd. to neighbors
Homeowners want to buy street from city, in part so they can keep illegal fence.
City Hall increasing the frequency of its administrative hearings on zoning violations
Homeowners and businesses cited for breaking land-use rules will now face twice-a-month hearings. Next week's hearings include a paved yard and improper restaurant signs on Carrollton Avenue.
Former councilman Jon Johnson denied zoning favor by former colleagues
He was seeking a wavier that would allow him a three-unit building in 9th Ward that's zoned for two-family housing.
So what if Holy Cross towers defy the zoning code — it’s only the Lower Ninth
Even cut back to 60 feet, the towers would be half again as tall as current zoning allows.
Invasion of the parking snatchers: panel to address lawn-paving epidemic
The zoning panel hears about safety issues and access for the handicapped, but the overarching reason for a lot of illegally paved yards is less often acknowledged: personal convenience at the expense of neighbors.
Assessor: Low assessment for Audubon Place isn’t the problem; other value is high
Tax official takes issue with comparison done by The Lens, says he will create policy for private streets.
Judges explore hiring nonprofit to build new court, then lease it back to them
But no site has been found, and an August deadline chokes off funding if construction hasn't begun by then.
Audubon Place, one of New Orleans’ most exclusive streets, a property-tax bargain
The street is valued at less than $3 per square foot, compared to $14 for Trianon Plaza, a private street in Fountainbleau. The difference is more dramatic when you factor in the difference in property values along those streets. If Audubon Place were valued at a similar rate, the street would be valued at $8.85 million, not $500,000 as it's now assessed.
