Massive Bywater public housing proposal would be a big step backwards
Density and scale at odds with surrounding neighborhood
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.
Lower Nine faces 13 years of hell if canal project rolls forward
Stunning indifference to community resistance
What gives? Too broke to fund schools, Plaquemines cuts risky deal with oil exporter
Cloud of secrecy shrouds Port transaction.
Q: When is a bridge not a bridge? A: When Jesuit High says so
Here’s help sorting out May 4 millage for parks — and be sure to vote!
Lingering questions about governance and how the money should be divided
Transportation planner sees merit in speeding up Canal streetcar service
Focus should be on transit riders, not cars.
Going off the grid: Canal streetcars rumble toward a big mistake
Plan would drop stops, block intersections.
City Planning Commission recommends short-term rental changes
Proposal would limit residential short-term rentals to owners with a homestead exemption and place caps on commercial short-term rentals.
How to ‘undesign’ the legacy of racism and redlining that still shapes New Orleans
City Council to act on ordinances that would incentivize affordable housing.
Citizen groups back plan to better fund and manage city green space
Millage recipients will have to accept coordinated planning.
