A would-be farmer from Chicago worries that she has arrived too late to till New Orleans’ soils.
Category: Land Use
Posted inLand Use
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.
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
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.
Posted inLand Use
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.
Posted inSquandered Heritage
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.”
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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.
Posted inLand Use, Squandered Heritage
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.
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Civil rights museum joins bidders for failed ArtWorks complex off Lee Circle
Runaway $25 million public investment now valued at $4.5 million, and federal loans must be repaid.
Posted inLand Use
Competing visions for ArtWorks building: culinary institute, ‘creative worker’ space
A private nonprofit board is looking for a buyer. The state and the city are looking for their loans to be repaid.
Posted inLand Use
Neighbors succeed in bringing temporary halt to plans for a concrete batching plant off Earhart
Residents of the Zion City neighborhood have seen a steady encroachment of commercial enterprises in what had been a residential area. The neighborhood is zoned for “light industrial,” but Councilwoman LaToya Cantrell had the city create a special zoning district after construction started on the site without a permit.