city planning

Day 1098: City Of NO’s 311 Evac Hotline Doesn’t Work

August 29, 2008

Update: 311 registration not needed to get on N.O. buses! All New Orleans residents will have access to mass transit services to assist with an evacuation regardless of whether they have registered with the city’s 311 information hotline, officials said Friday. Find the nearest pick-up site. Excerpt from an email Editor B forwarded to the [...]

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Day 1014: NOLA All Set For Hurricane Season!

June 6, 2008

Folks must leave their trailers by July 1st and New Orleans emergency connectivity having problems Assessor Hell by nolareno No, no, this isn’t a problem. To the contrary, it is a foolproof plan concocted by the architects of our recovery.  See, folks in trailers will be safe from any possible hurricanes and flooding because they [...]

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Day 967: Sinkholes At “Former” Ninth Ward Superfund Site

April 21, 2008

Which up until 1994 was the site of an elementary school and surrounding community that were initially put there by the Housing Authority of New Orleans and the Desire Community Housing Corporation. NO City Business: Superfund dilemma pollutes school master plan The Environmental Protection Agency maintains its cleanup from 1994 to 2000 has made the former site of [...]

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April 4, 2008

Jeffrey encapsulates my feelings about New Orleans’s Recovery Czar, Ed Blakely: “… the addition of a self-aggrandizing “Quarterback” type to an atmosphere already flooded with similarly ineffectual prima donnas is exactly what you don’t want.”  Read the Authoritative Ed Blakely Timeline, something that needs posting to the New Orleans Wiki. Tweet

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Day 856: Home In New Orleans

December 31, 2007

Who am I, who has never lived in one of these buildings, with the stigma and hopelessness that have come to be associated with them, to have a say? Who am I, with my own aforementioned and tenuous notions of home, to say don’t come back? Who am I, with my own priveleged experiences of [...]

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Day 842: Housing In New Orleans

December 17, 2007

While pitting housing advocates and developers against one another, in yet another made-for-media black and white battle of the haves and have-nots, the controversy surrounding the demolition of the B.W. Cooper, C.J. Peete, St. Bernard and Lafitte projects stinks of one thing: There is more to this mess than meets the eye, and it’s hard to believe anything as [...]

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Day 807: New Orleans News

November 12, 2007

As much as the newspapers and TV push me towards other stories, the news keeps coming back to New Orleans. 1) New Orleans – America’s #2 most sedentary city.  The Big Easy has faced challenges more formidable than any city in this group. Perhaps slow rebuilding and changes in the local economy have contributed to [...]

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Day 723: Poor Black Homelessness In Post-K/Flood New Orleans

August 22, 2007

This article in The Jewish Daily Forward* makes a more straightforward connection between being black and post-Katrina/Flood homelessness.  Jeffrey would argue that it’s not race but class, and I would also include the elderly.  … One of the reasons for [the slow rebuilding of New Orleans] is the failure to rebuild the 77,000 destroyed rental units that once housed a large number of [...]

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May 26, 2007

An example of the news I find when out of town: $3.5 million Katrina memorial proposed for New Orleans. “The [Unified New Orleans Plan] is making its way through city approval processes. While the memorial is a far lower priority than upgrading drainage and reconstructing neighborhoods during the next decade, it is still listed among [...]

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Day 633: City Planning Commission Approves UNOP

May 23, 2007

Tut, tut, not so fast.  All is not that easy in the city planning arena of the real K-Ville. nola.com: As rebuilding of N.O. continues, recovery plan OK’d No one on the commission or its staff expressed much enthusiasm for the plan, which was created by outside planners and consultants at a cost of several million dollars, and [...]

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