By admin on July 9, 2010
District meetings for our City’s Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance start on Monday, July 12. This will affect all our neighborhoods. We need you there! We need your input!
Posted in Featured, General, News | Tagged Master Plan with the Force of Law
By admin on August 13, 2009
“Major shifts in entrenched city processes take time. Yes, we need to work diligently to keep the master plan on track. As the author of the charter change and as an at-large council member, I pledge to do all I can to ensure our city finally gets the plan we so desperately need, even if the timeline is little off.”
Posted in City Government, Economic Development, Good Government, News, Press Releases | Tagged Land Use and Zoning, Master Plan with the Force of Law
By admin on June 26, 2009
“This significant win for New Orleans was the result of hours and hours of work by an extraordinary coalition of New Orleanians – neighborhood leaders from Lakeview to the Lower Ninth Ward, non-profit organizations, the business community, elected and appointed City officials, and many others. Against the odds, we came together to save the City’s master plan and the promise it holds for quality of life and economic development in every corner of the City.”
Posted in City Government, Economic Development, Good Government, News, Press Releases | Tagged Land Use and Zoning, Master Plan with the Force of Law
By admin on June 22, 2009
“The 2008 charter amendment, supported by the administration and six of seven councilmembers, was meant to change that. It promised a coherent, meaningful plan that would bring desperately-needed stability to our City. But Senate Bill 75 threatens to derail this.”
Posted in City Government, Economic Development, Good Government, News, Press Releases | Tagged Land Use and Zoning, Master Plan with the Force of Law
By admin on June 19, 2009
As the author of the 2008 charter amendment and as an elected official who worked vigorously for its passage, I have spent the past several weeks working against Senate Bill 75 in the Legislature…
Posted in City Government, Economic Development, Good Government, News, News Articles | Tagged Land Use and Zoning, Master Plan with the Force of Law
By admin on November 2, 2008
“The coalition behind this proposition reflects the face of New Orleans – black and white, Uptown and Downtown, business leaders and community leaders,” Clarkson said. “We are all united behind the idea that it’s time to get the politics out of planning in New Orleans.”
Posted in City Government, Economic Development, Good Government, News, Press Releases | Tagged Land Use and Zoning, Master Plan with the Force of Law
By admin on October 27, 2008
New Orleans voters will decide Nov. 4 whether to amend the City Charter to give the city’s forthcoming master plan the force of law, meaning that all zoning and land-use decisions would have to conform to the plan.
Posted in City Government, Economic Development, Good Government, News, News Articles | Tagged Land Use and Zoning, Master Plan with the Force of Law
By admin on July 10, 2008
“I’ve waited almost 40 years to do this,” said council President Jackie Clarkson, author of the proposed amendment. Even before she went into politics, she said, she saw that “venture capital was afraid to come into the city” because investors and developers feared “the game rules would change midway because of political decisions.”
Posted in City Government, Economic Development, Good Government, News, News Articles | Tagged Land Use and Zoning, Master Plan with the Force of Law
