When the City Planning Commission and City Council last year completed action on the first true master plan ever created for New Orleans’ long-term development, they were only halfway through the task of changing the way the city regulates land use. Still to come was the first real revision in decades of New Orleans’ comprehensive zoning ordinance, or CZO, which spells out in exacting detail what the broad land-use principles and map designations in the master plan mean to someone wanting to erect a building or open a business on a particular piece of property — or to a neighbor wishing to block such a move. Read More
