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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.

Massive Bywater public housing proposal would be a big step backwards

Density and scale at odds with surrounding neighborhood
by Frederick Starr May 21, 2019 Updated November 7, 2019

Lower Nine faces 13 years of hell if canal project rolls forward

Stunning indifference to community resistance
by Roberta Brandes Gratz May 10, 2019 Updated November 7, 2019

What gives? Too broke to fund schools, Plaquemines cuts risky deal with oil exporter

Cloud of secrecy shrouds Port transaction.
by Kendall Dix May 5, 2019 Updated November 7, 2019

Q: When is a bridge not a bridge? A: When Jesuit High says so

by Bart Everson April 29, 2019 Updated November 7, 2019

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
by Bill Ives and Julianna D. Padgett April 25, 2019 Updated November 7, 2019

Transportation planner sees merit in speeding up Canal streetcar service

Focus should be on transit riders, not cars.
by Bobby Evans March 22, 2019 Updated November 7, 2019

Going off the grid: Canal streetcars rumble toward a big mistake

Plan would drop stops, block intersections.
by Roberta Brandes Gratz March 17, 2019 Updated November 7, 2019

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.
by Michael Isaac Stein March 12, 2019 Updated November 7, 2019

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.
by John Sullivan January 18, 2019 Updated November 7, 2019

Citizen groups back plan to better fund and manage city green space

Millage recipients will have to accept coordinated planning.
by Scott Howard January 4, 2019 Updated November 7, 2019

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