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Rebuilding New Orleans

UNOP Citywide Plan Wins Approval
City Council expected to OK it next week
June 14, 2007, New Orleans Times Picayune
By Bruce Eggler
Summary

A New Orleans City Council committee voted Wednesday to "support and generally approve" the citywide strategic recovery plan produced by the Unified New Orleans Plan process. The full council is almost certain to follow suit next week, and local officials hope that vote will lead the Louisiana Recovery Authority to quickly release $117 million in federal money to the city.

The federal Community Development Block Grant money would be directed to projects in 17 targeted zones announced in late March by city recovery director Ed Blakely. He has outlined plans for spending $1.1 billion in the zones, if and when the money is found.

Multiple plans

The motion approved Wednesday by three members of the council's Recovery Committee says the council "does hereby support and generally approve" UNOP's citywide plan, "inclusive of all of the neighborhood and public planning efforts that led to its creation."

© 2007 The Times Picayune

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