Plan for the 21st Century:
New Orleans 2030
New Orleans 2030
City of New Orleans, Louisiana, New Orleans, LA
Beyond recovery: Creating a new vision for the City of New Orleans
Three years after Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans City Planning Commission chose a team led by Goody Clancy to prepare a citywide master plan and a new comprehensive zoning ordinance. While the plan reflects recovery planning in which residents had invested considerable effort, it goes beyond recovery to lay out a vision of livability, opportunity, and sustainability over 20 years for the city’s physical development and its social, economic, and environmental future. More than 5,000 people participated in the community participation process.
Notable aspects of the plan include:
- Reviving, maintaining, and sustaining vibrant and walkable neighborhoods
- Historic and cultural preservation that supports community and economic development
- Comprehensive blight eradication program
- Rehabilitated and new housing for residents of all incomes
- Support for entrepreneurship, alignment of training and jobs for all skill levels, and measures to nurture new industries such as coastal restoration and green energy
- Recommendation to study alternatives to the I-10 Claiborne Expressway elevated urban highway
- Design and development for “living with water” including a multiple-lines-of-defense resilience strategy founded on public understanding and city leadership
IMPLEMENTATION
- City Charter referendum vote gave the plan “the force of law” for land use decisions in 2009
- Adopted by the City Planning Commission and the City Council, 2010
- Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, 2014
- Establishment of a comprehensive blight eradication program
- Grant funding for and completion of a transportation and community development study of alternatives in the Claiborne Avenue Corridor
