Reply #42: yeah you got it! [View All]

[Kashka-Kat]

Need low cost housing accomodating a true diversity of income levels (which includes the REALLY low or no income folks... not the usual definition of "affordable" which we get, like "at or below 80% of median income")

But still retaining some kind of traditional feel of new orleans.

this will be hard to achieve but not impossible methinks.

in many (most? almost all?) american cities it is actually illegal to build a traditional pre-1940s type of city... i.e. without requisite # of parking stalls, setback from street, wide streets, etc. etc. Urban sprawl is what most city zoning specificies. But this may not be true of New Orleans, being so historical... does anyone know?

In most places the construction industry in cahoots w/ city bureaucrats have their (profitable for them) way of doing things following current zoning laws and it can be really hard to stop or redirect them to more historical or human-scale non-car oriented development. (Speaking from neighborhood activist experience there).