Category: 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.

Filled-in canal drives up cost of planned Loyola Avenue streetcar extension
Grocer forging ahead with plans to resurrect Seventh Ward's iconic Circle Food Store
Neighborhood Participation Plan cranking up after three years stuck in neutral
Star turn for Central City bar – but can it still operate legally as the joint it's long been?

Flap over Magazine Street Pilates center prompts city to shape up notification rules
Interview: St. Roch art impresario holds forth from Tasmania on the wreckage left behind

Homeowner or homeless? St. Louis Street resident fights to hang on to what he has
Crackdown on Lower Garden District blight outs cop with dual homestead exemptions

City neighborhoods: a matter of evolving perception
There's no escaping the need for neighborhood designations, but they often have more to do with bureaucratic arrogance than with on-the-ground realities and our sense of who we are.