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Overview
Process and Timetable
Implementation
Profiles of Community Improvement Planning Areas
Overview
The Louisiana Legislature has given NORA the authority to carry out Community
Improvement Plans and Projects. Originally conceived during the era
of urban renewal, Community Improvement Plans are intended to prevent
the spread of blight and to revitalize areas that are currently blighted.
Given the magnitude of the devastation that Katrina has wrought, the
comprehensiveness of the Community Improvement Plan approach is appropriate
for the task at hand. However, NORA fully recognizes the errors of
the past in the implementation of top-down urban renewal-type plans.
NORA will approach the Community Improvement Plan process with the
utmost sensitivity to community input and grassroots planning. Combining
a full toolkit of implementation measures with a grassroots, neighborhood-based
planning process, Community Improvement Plans offer the best opportunity
for coordinated, effective neighborhood revitalization.
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Process and Timetable
The Community Improvement Plan process must start with the City Council’s
officially designating an area of the city as eligible for a Community
Improvement Project.
Once the resolution is issued by the City Council, NORA must notify the residents and property owners that a Community Improvement Plan is being developed. NORA must then hold public meetings to involve the citizens and stakeholders of the community in the planning effort.
When the Plan is complete, it is submitted to the City Planning Commission for review. The City Planning Commission then has 45 days to make a recommendation to the City Council regarding the adequacy of the Plan.
When the City Council receives the Plan from the City Planning Commission, the Council must then hold a public hearing for citizens to again provide input and feedback.
The Council must publish public notice of the hearing at least 14 days
in advance and must notify every citizen in the designated planning area
of the public hearing either by mail or hand delivery of the meeting
notice.
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Implementation
If the City Council and the Mayor approve a Community Improvement Plan,
NORA is then authorized to implement the Plan.
In implementing the Plan, NORA can:
- Apply for, accept, and utilize federal grants
- Borrow and invest funds
- Prepare relocation plans to prevent displacement
- Demolish and remove structures
- Conduct appraisals, title search, and property inventory
- Launch pilot and target programs
- Close, plan, or re-plan streets
- Implement voluntary or mandatory repair programs
- Buy and sell real property
- Issue bonds to finance infrastructure
- Issue bonds to finance public facilities such as schools and recreational areas that support the redevelopment Plan
With a variety of implementation mechanisms at its disposal, NORA is
uniquely positioned to be a major part of the process of rebuilding our
great city.
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View Profiles of Community Improvement Planning Areas
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NORA
New Orleans
Redevelopment Authority
1340 Poydras Street
Suite 600
New Orleans, Louisiana 70112
tel: 504-658-4400
fax: 504-658-4551
