New Orleans Neighborhoods
Rebuilding Plan
The New Orleans City Council hired Lambert Advisory LLC and SHEDO LLC to help develop reconstruction plans for 50 neighborhoods heavily flooded by Hurricane Katrina. The plans will recommend reconstruction strategies and a redevelopment vision for each of these neighborhoods. The plans will also place major emphasis on incorporating on-going neighborhood planning efforts as well as other neighborhood driven plans that were prepared prior to Hurricane Katrina. It is an inclusive community-driven effort to help guide the redevelopment of the neighborhoods and City of New Orleans.

Experienced city planners, urban designers, architects, and other support personnel will serve as a resource to the neighborhoods and will help formulate each neighborhood-specific rebuilding plan. The plans, once completed and validated by each neighborhood, will be consolidated into a single format that will serve as the basis for submission to the state and federal government for funding.

Goals and Objectives

The Neighborhoods Rebuilding Plan for the City of New Orleans has a focused objective:

"Work with neighborhoods to develop revitalization plans that are thoughtful, can be implemented, and formed into a citywide recovery and improvement plan for submission to the state and federal government."

Broad participating of city residents is crucial to ensure that local neighborhood priorities are front-and-center as it relates to projects and investments. Additionally, neighbors should look beyond recovery and utilize this planning process to identify ways of addressing small and large challenges that existed in many communities long before Katrina.

The New Orleans City Council has charged the consultants with several tasks:

 
  • Provide technical planning support for the neighborhoods;
     
  • Help residents identify and prioritize specific investments and programs in each neighborhood;
     
  • Estimate the cost, funding source/structure for implementation;
     
  • Consolidate neighborhood-by neighborhood plans in a unified, seamless format for approval by City Planning Commission, the City Council and appropriate funding sources.

    Each Team will hold a minimum of three community meetings in each neighborhood. One additional general meeting will be held at the end of the process which will include all flood impacted neighborhoods in the City. Individual one-on-one meetings with community groups and citizens will be held on an as-needed basis.

    The post Katrina planning process now underway is the latest step in a centuries old tradition of using urban planning as a tool to revitalize and renew one of America's greatest cities.

    Source:
    New Orleans Neighborhoods Rebuilding Plan
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    PLANNING DISTRICTS


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    New Orleans East is divided into planning districts:
    Little Woods
    Pine Village
    West Lake Forest
    Plum Orchard
    Read Blvd East
    Read Blvd West
    Village De L'Est
    Viavant
    Venetian Isles

     Click on the links above to view neighborhood
    meetings scheduled by the planning teams

     

    If you would like to share your comments or questions regarding the New Orleans Neighborhood Rebuilding Plan, as it pertains to New Orleans East, please use the form below:

     
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    Districts D & E Planning Meeting
     

    Meeting Held
    Sat. June 16, 2006
    9:00am-4:00pm
    St Maria Goretti
    7300 Crowder Blvd.

    Representatives on hand:

    Federal Services
    FEMA
    Army Corp of Engineers
    EPA
    DEQ

    State Services
    Louisiana Recovery
    Louisiana Recovery School District

    City Services
    Safety & Permits
    NOPD
    NOFD
    Criminal Sheriff's Office
    Civil Sheriff's Office
    Neighborhood One
    NORD
    DPW
    RTA
    Sewerage & Water Board
    Entergy
    Bellsouth
    Cox
    Orleans Parish School Board
    Health Department
    Department of Sanitation
     

    9:00am - 12:00
    Planners/Residents discussion on
    recovery issues

    12:00pm - 1:00pm
    Lunch Presentation
    Lockheed Martin
    LA Insurance Commissioner
    Mortgage Issues - Chase & Omni Bank
    United Health Care
    Methodist and Lakeland Hospitals
    Shell Oil
    Folgers Coffee

    1:00 - 2:00pm
    Elected officials platform
    St. Martin Brown & Associates

    2:00pm - 4:00pm
    Homecoming / Neighborhood
    Meet and Greet
    Access to agencies and corporations

     

    City and state officials to discuss issues. 
    Neighborhoods begin crafting their plans      
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