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Community
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Planning District
10 was originally projected to continue the land use patterns established
in District 9, but these plans were significantly changed after multiple
attempts to develop this area as a single planned community failed.
Orlandia and New Orleans East, the two original projects, tried to integrate
and expand job-based land uses in the form of business parks, light industrial
uses, and heavy industrial uses; but they failed due to insufficient
financing and the economic slowdown that resulted from a slump in the
oil industry. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the area became home
to thousands of Vietnamese immigrants who settled in the Village de L’Est
subdivision.
Planning District 10 experienced a major transformation in 1990 with the establishment of the Bayou Sauvage Wildlife Refuge, thereby removing from commerce the vast majority of the District’s land. Prior to Katrina, 61.3% of the land was parkland and 22.6% was wetlands; but, as evidenced by the Jazzland/ Six Flags amusement park project, major areas of land remained viable for growth. The relatively few housing units within this area prior to Katrina were primarily renter occupied.
Given its proximity to the storm surge coming from the Gulf of Mexico, its low lying elevation, and the failure of the hurricane protection system, Planning District 10 experienced severe flooding as a result of Hurricane Katrina. (Sources: City of New Orleans 1999 Land Use Plan and GCR & Associates, Inc.)
| Population Characteristics: District 10 | ||||||||||
| Total Population | African-American Pop. | White Population | Other Population | Pop. 65 and Older | ||||||
| Pre-Katrina Total | 13,195 | 100.00% | 7,448 | 100.00% | 604 | 100.00% | 5,143 | 100.00% | 839 | 100.00% |
| Less Than 2' of Flooding | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% |
| Between 2 - 4' of Flooding | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% |
| 4' and Greater Flooding | 13,195 | 100.00% | 7,448 | 100.00% | 604 | 100.00% | 5,143 | 100.00% | 839 | 100.00% |
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New Orleans
Neighborhood Planning Districts
1: French
Quarter/CBD
2: Central
City/Garden District
3: Uptown/Carrollton
4: Mid-City
5: Lakeview
6: Gentilly
7: Bywater
8: Lower
Ninth Ward
9: New
Orleans East
10: Village
de L’Est
11: Viavant/Venetian
Isles
12: Algiers
13: New
Aurora/English Turn
NORA
New Orleans
Redevelopment Authority
1340 Poydras Street
Suite 600
New Orleans, Louisiana 70112
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