The City of New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana
A plan for the Crescent City focusing on its long-term future, including a new comprehensive zoning ordinance that will help achieve it.
Recognition
- American Planning Association - National Planning Achievement Award for a Hard-Won Victory (2011)
Project Highlights
Goody Clancy and its team of New Orleans-based and national experts were selected to develop a new citywide Master Plan and Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance for the City of New Orleans. This work builds on the many layers of planning undertaken in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina, including the Unified New Orleans Plan process.
The master plan reaches beyond recovery planning to build a long range framework for the core systems that shape the city’s social, environmental, and economic future. The new comprehensive zoning ordinance will embody the master plan recommendations. Both plan and ordinance will emerge from a thorough public process, including a comprehensive project website (www.nolamasterplan.com), that reaches into all parts of the community.
In November, 2008, New Orleans voters passed a charter amendment to give the forthcoming master plan the “force of law” to ensure that future zoning and land-use decisions are in conformance.
Related News Articles...
Life After Katrina: Bold Promises, Many Broken - August 27, 2010
New Orleans 2030: New Business, Housing, Jobs - August 26, 2010
Taking Stock: New Orleans Five Years After Katrina - August 24, 2010
City begins new era with approval of master plan - By, Ariella Cohen - August 13, 2010
New Orleans master plan approved by City Council - By, Bruce Eggers - August 13, 2010
The New Orleans Index at Five: Overview - Brookings Institution, August 2010
The New Orleans Index at Five: Land Use Planning - Brookings Institution, August 2010
The New Orleans Index at Five: Community Engagement - Brookings Institution, August 2010
New Orleans master plan wins approval of City Planning Commission - The Times-Picayune, January 26, 2010
“The second major positive outcome is the high quality of the master plan. It includes a best practices approach of using research and knowledge of what has worked and what has not worked in the past. It also gathers information from other cities’ plans. This comprehensive approach was never used in the past. Additionally, it is holistic in the sense that in addition to dealing with zoning and land use issues, it focuses on figuring out how the city can live naturally with water and integrate itself with nature, rather than trying to dominate, control, and suppress nature—the practices of the past.”
Brookings Institution, 2010