UNOP Info to Date

Dear Neighbors,

Thank you for trying out this new online tool and for your recent comments. Please keep in mind that this blog is your place to share ideas specifically about the planning process. Your comments on planning issues will be compiled and submitted to our planners.

Some of you submitted questions about what we can expect in the United New Orleans Planning process. Below is some general information about our participation in UNOP , however, please keep in mind that ALL neighborhoods have been given only limited instruction about the procedure and timeline of this citywide project.

Your GDA planning committee members have attended city-wide, district-wide and group meetings about the UNOP process and proposed results of the city-wide plan and potential project funding. The Garden District has joined with other "riverside of St. Charles" neighborhoods like Lower Garden District, Touro Bouligny, Irish Channel, Faubourg Marengo, Faubourg Delachiase and others to form one group for planning purposes. We did this because we share the corridors of activity along St. Charles, Magazine and Tchoupitoulas streets, and the blessing of being spared the experience of the devastating floodwaters of last year. The online voting in August for planners resulted in the election of H3 Studio of St. Louis as our District 2 Planner and Goody Clancy as our Neighborhood Planner. Local planners David Wagner and Mac Ball will be working closely with them. All neighborhood plans must be submitted to the City-wide team in November. In the meantime, we will be calling neighborhood meetings to gather your comments and thoughts, as well as compiling your blog comments. Once all neighborhood plans have been completed, the UNOP plan will be submitted to the City Planning Commission, the City Council, the Mayor’s Office and then onto the Louisiana Recovery Authority (LRA). The LRA will then use this plan to guide the investment of federal funds to begin the strategic rebuilding of communities in Orleans Parish.

On behalf of the GDA Planning Committee, and the Executive Committee of the GDA Board of Directors, thank you for your time and participation in this process.

Feel free to visit the UNOP website at www.unifiedneworleansplan.com for more information.

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[Shelley Landrieu]

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