Recognition >> American Planning Association - National Planning Achievement Award for a Hard-Won Victory (2011)
Goody Clancy and its team of New Orleans-based and national experts were selected to develop a new citywide Master Plan and Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance for the City of New Orleans. This work builds on the many layers of planning undertaken in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina, including the Unified New Orleans Plan process.
The master plan reaches beyond recovery planning to build a long range framework for the core systems that shape the city’s social, environmental, and economic future. The new comprehensive zoning ordinance will embody the master plan recommendations. Both plan and ordinance will emerge from a thorough public process, including a comprehensive project website (www.nolamasterplan.com), that reaches into all parts of the community.
In November, 2008, New Orleans voters passed a charter amendment to give the forthcoming master plan the “force of law” to ensure that future zoning and land-use decisions are in conformance.
Completed at Goody Clancy Associates | Client: City of New Orleans
