Three years ago, the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority created a program called Near Miss, which opened the door for non-residential property owners to buy Road Home lots. So far, 59 properties have been acquired. But the City Council never approved the program, and most of those properties have not been zoned for commercial use.
Category: Land Use
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Land Use
Could the Algiers-Canal ferry become New Orleans’ newest party boat?
About $440 raised so far; $2,999,500 million to go.
Posted inLand Use, Squandered Heritage
Adjudication of non-blight code violations resumes after unexplained year-long hiatus
Illegally paved yards, short-term rentals and demolition by neglect draw One Stop Shop scrutiny; Spotted Cat gets go-ahead.
Posted inLand Use, Squandered Heritage
City’s code-enforcement court to meet for first time in a year
The city’s focus on blight means no hearings have been held to deal with code violations such as illegal short-term rentals and front-yard paving.
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Even a chain restaurant like proposed Habana Outpost creates commerce
What if a Pizza Hut went up at that abandoned gas station in the Quarter?
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
The ‘economic development’ that nearly doomed New Orleans tourism
In an era when highways and “urban renewal” were ripping cities apart, Section 106 was a tool useful to local preservationists and as a way to force federal agencies to stop destroying irreplaceable remnants of American history.
Posted inLand Use
Volleyball courts on the bayou? Neighbors worry about toilets, ads and parking
Neighborhood leader says the parking that would come with the courts would destroy the bayou’s beauty.
Posted inLand Use
Hotels want new tax on guests to promote expected riverfront development
Legislature to consider room tax, perhaps 1.5 percent, to benefit organizations marketing the city.
Posted inLand Use
City unveils competing proposals to redevelop World Trade Center site
Hotels are part of two proposals. Two envision tourist attractions: a “Sky Wheel” or “Tricentennial Tower.”
Posted inLand Use
Convention Center officials envision iconic sculpture on former World Trade Center site
According to a document obtained by The Lens, the shuttered, 33-story World Trade Center would be demolished, and a towering sculpture and a park – meant to become a tourism icon for the city of New Orleans — would be built in its place at the foot of Canal Street.