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Inspiring Works

After the Storm: A great American city replans and rebuilds

Aspiration

Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans with devastating effect at daybreak on August 29, 2005. It has been Goody Clancy’s great privilege, beginning in 2006 and continuing over a period of eight years, to work with the people of New Orleans to replan and rebuild their city.

The aspirations of the New Orleans community post-Katrina were never in doubt— restore the city’s unique culture and quality of life while creating a place that would be:

  • Stronger economically
  • More resilient environmentally
  • More equitable socially

Realization

New Orleans has made great strides to meet the challenges it faced following Katrina. The planning processes in New Orleans resulted in thousands of engaged citizens working in partnership with community organizations, foundations and institutions, and business and governmental entities at the state and federal level to plan for the city’s future.

Our work with the New Orleans community began in 2006 through our involvement in the city’s recovery plan—the Unified New Orleans Plan—continued with development of the city’s long-term comprehensive plan, Plan for the 21st Century: New Orleans 2030 and related rezoning initiative, and included master planning for the Claiborne Corridor.

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Unified New Orleans Plan—assessing the damage

In the aftermath of the storm, Goody Clancy planners worked intensively with thousands of citizens in districts across New Orleans to create a recovery plan.

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Plan for 21st Century New Orleans: New Orleans 2030

As recovery progressed, we worked with the City of New Orleans to craft a long-term plan for its future.

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The community engages

The Goody Clancy team helped facilitate the most comprehensive and inclusive process of public discussion in city history, engaging every community and neighborhood.

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Enhancing the Neighborhood Fabric of the Claiborne Corridor

The Livable Claiborne Communities Study linked an analysis of alternatives to the I-10 urban highway viaduct in the center of New Orleans with an integrated community revitalization plan for the surrounding neighborhoods.

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Livable Claiborne: Putting the plan into action

The study included robust public participation and was guided by community goals. By fall of 2013, the city had appointed two people to staff a newly created Livable Claiborne Communities Initiative to begin coordination and implementation of the study’s recommendations.

“ [The master planning process] changed the planning culture in New Orleans, giving citizens the tools to become informed partners in promoting economic development, protecting our history and culture and revitalizing all of our neighborhoods.”

- George Amedee Jr.,
Former Chair, New Orleans Planning Commission

 

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Prioritizing recovery initiatives

Our work focused on districts across the city: Gentilly, Marigny and Bywater, and downtown and the French Quarter.

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Residents come together to replan their city

The planning process culminated with each of district voting to form district-wide planning committees—a first for New Orleans.

 

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A plan gets the force of law

Even before the process was finished, it resulted in a citywide referendum to change the New Orleans charter—imbuing the master plan with the force of law.

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In 2010, the American Planning Association recognized the New Orleans 2030 master plan with its national “Hard Won Victory Award.”

Goody Clancy Firm News

  • Goody Clancy Announces the Promotion of Three New Principals
  • David Spillane Elevated to the AICP College of Fellows
  • In Memory of Jill Verhosek
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On the Boards

  • Engineering Building Renovation and Addition
  • Integrated Science Center 4
  • College of Business
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Sustainability & Resilience

At Goody Clancy, our environmental philosophy is founded upon macro-resiliency in planning for neighborhoods and communities and the sustainable design of new and renewed buildings, systems, and the user environment.

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