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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.
How to make New Orleans uglier and less safe: continue to ignore yard paving
The city's One-Stop Shop is scheduled to consider stricter citation rules and heavier fines, bringing New Orleans into stride with San Francisco and other cities.
LaToya Cantrell kills plans for Zion City batching plant
Neighbors, already surrounded by industrial development, complained about truck traffic and environmental issues.
Transplant’s dream of urban farming imperiled by zoning, rising land prices
A would-be farmer from Chicago worries that she has arrived too late to till New Orleans' soils.
Appeals court orders city to remove fence blocking Newcomb Boulevard
The ruling ends a years-long battle over the illegal closure of an Uptown street.
This time the city needs to get St. Roch Market right — a lot depends on it
Food expert Darlene Wolnik offers insights on the place of a public market in the renewal of a neighborhood.
First recipient of Fresh Food Retail Initiative closes, puts store on market
DaFresh Seafood received a $117,000 low-interest loan through the city's program. The owner says he'll repay it.
Neighbors hope to get some relief after city tells doggy day-care center to muzzle noise
Belladoggie spa for dogs also must seek special permission from city agency after officials says the zoning is improper and has been "stretched to the absurd."
Three years after St. Roch property sold to favored buyer, it lies fallow
The owner of the gas station next door originally planned to tear down the building to build a convenience store.
City code enforcement hearing to deal with unpermitted house, barking from dog spa
The owner got a permit to build a garage, but the city says it's a second dwelling, which isn't allowed.
