Stunning indifference to community resistance
Category: Land Use
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
What gives? Too broke to fund schools, Plaquemines cuts risky deal with oil exporter
Cloud of secrecy shrouds Port transaction.
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Q: When is a bridge not a bridge? A: When Jesuit High says so
Opponents’ objections to the pedestrian walkway include the threat it poses to 130-year-old oaks lining Banks Street. Question: When is a bridge not a bridge? Answer: When it proves more expedient to call it by some other name. Jesuit High School wants to build a thing over Banks Street. It’s a bridge, and they called […]
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
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
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Transportation planner sees merit in speeding up Canal streetcar service
Focus should be on transit riders, not cars.
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Going off the grid: Canal streetcars rumble toward a big mistake
Plan would drop stops, block intersections.
Posted inLand Use
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.
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
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.
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Citizen groups back plan to better fund and manage city green space
Millage recipients will have to accept coordinated planning.
Posted inLand Use
Vote on short-term rental restrictions delayed until next month
The proposal would limit residential whole-home rentals to property owners with homestead exemptions. Kristin Palmer, who authored the plan unveiled last week, said she wants to delay the vote until after the holidays to allow the public to weigh in.