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All Areas Open in New Blueprint for New Orleans:
NY Times
January 31, 2007
By Adam Nossiter
Excerpt
In a New York Times article about the progress of the Unified Plan, reporter Adam Nossiter wrote, in part:
The Unified New Orleans Plan, as it is called, 556 pages long, was developed by consultants and planners for the city after months of meetings with citizens here, and is intended to be used by city planners as a guide to redevelopment.
The document was given to the city’s Planning Commission on Tuesday, and more meetings will be held to discuss it.
The plan avoids the recommendation that caused the downfall of an earlier recovery blueprint: that potentially dangerous areas, those most vulnerable to flooding, be turned into “green space” or left undeveloped...Unlike the earlier document, the plan rejects reducing the size of New Orleans, “shrinking the footprint,” a phrase that became a red flag to outraged citizen groups here.
One part of the new plan, much insisted on by the consultants Tuesday, appears to address that phenomenon by calling for incentives for homeowners and small businesses to encourage the creation of 'sustainable clusters within their neighborhoods.'
Copyright 2007 The New York Times Company
The Rockefeller Foundation has supported the creation of the Unified Plan.
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