CarrolltonAreaNetwork - Carrollton Area News The City of New Orleans, Office of Transportation, recently conducted a meeting with neighborhood residents concerning routes for trucks and oversized vehicles. Click here for the power point presentation made at that meeting, including a map of truck routes in the city. From their website: The Office of Transportation is leading an effort to engage with stakeholders and residents around regulations and routes for trucks and oversized vehicles as part of Mayor Cantrell's Moving New Orleans Transportation Action Plan. This process began in August 2020 and will continue through early 2021. Click here for more information. Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control (SELA)Green Space - S. Claiborne Ave.The project, now underway, will stretch from Leonidas Street to Pine Street and will include the planting of approximately 98 trees. Tree varieties include: Nuttall Oak, Bald Cypress, Southern Magnolia, Spruce Pine, Sweet Bay Magnolia, and Crape Myrtle “Muskogee”. Bio-retention areas will be incorporated along the center of the neutral grounds as green infrastructure and storm water infiltration components of the City’s Master PlanPlanting. The project is estimated to take between 3-6 months to complete. See the Corps' Green Space presentation. (Click here for information on the entire SELA project) For questions or concerns, call (877) 427-0345 or email Jamie.C.Braun@usace.army.mil Stop the D2Ds Support the IZD Doubles to DormitoriesApproximately a year ago, an out of state developer, Amicus, began buying housing in neighborhoods near Tulane and Loyola Universities. Amicus favors doubles, particularly shotgun doubles, but will buy existing single-family properties, triples and multi-family. They generally build out to every setback and try to double the number of existing bedrooms and market them to college students for $ 1200 to $ 1500 a month. We call this housing model “Doubles to Dormitories” (“D2D”) - because the housing is so intense, it can only be compared to dormitories. In one instance Amicus (https://www.amicus-properties.com), purchased two adjacent shotgun doubles on Hillary Street and increased the number of bedrooms from four to eight in one double and from four to ten in the other, for a total of 18 bedrooms in two, adjacent shotgun doubles. Neither project has a single off-street parking space. This development model is so lucrative that real estate agents representing developers have been going door to door in the neighborhood asking residents to sell their houses. Just in the area of the MARI neighborhood association, approximately one residential property a month was being lost to these developers.If this practice is not halted, studied, and regulated it will forever change our neighborhoods. District A Councilmember Giarrusso is addressing the problem. First, at his request, the Council passed an ordinance requiring the City Planning Commission staff to study the parking problem associated with D2D developments. That study has been completed. Second, to stop these developments until the study is completed and its recommendations acted upon, the council enacted an Interim Zoning District (IZD) bounded by S.Carrollton, S.Claiborne, Audubon St. and St. Charles Ave. The City Planning Commission, based upon a preliminary report by its staff, has requested that the IZD be removed. The council will be voting on this request soon. CAN is urging the City Council to keep the Interim Zoning District in place to prevent a very dense student housing model - one that is changing the residential landscape around the University area - from expanding until the Council can take action. City Planning Commission PUBLIC HEARING: UNIVERSITY AREA PARKING STUDYJULY 28, 1:30 PMVia teleconference The Parking Study report has been posted on the CPC website. The report will be discussed at the CPC July 28 meeting beginning at 1:30 pm. The CPC wil then make a recommendation to the City Council. For more information go to the website: Stop Doubles to Dormitories (including a list of properties) created by Maple Area Residents Inc – MARI. CAN conducted, via Zoom, 2 community conversations cocerning the D2D developments. D2D, IZD Slide Show, 6-24-20 pdfJune 24 & 27, D2D ZOOM Meetings Summary University Area Parking, IZDCity Planning Commission, Preliminary Staff Report, D2D IZDUniversity Area, Parking Study MotionOwnership of D2Ds in University areaPhotos and Plans of several D2Ds in the University area: 817-19 Hillary (photo) 817-19 Hillary (plan) 937-39 Dante (photo) 7307 Burthe (photo) 1409 Broadway (permit)

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The City of New Orleans, Office of Transportation, recently conducted a meeting with neighborhood residents concerning routes for trucks and oversized vehicles. Click here for the power point presentation made at that meeting, including a map of truck routes in the city. From their website:

The Office of Transportation is leading an effort to engage with stakeholders and residents around regulations and routes for trucks and oversized vehicles as part of Mayor Cantrell's Moving New Orleans Transportation Action Plan. This process began in August 2020 and will continue through early 2021. Click here for more information.

Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control (SELA)
Green Space - S. Claiborne Ave.

The project, now underway, will stretch from Leonidas Street to Pine Street and will include the planting of approximately 98 trees. Tree varieties include: Nuttall Oak, Bald Cypress, Southern Magnolia, Spruce Pine, Sweet Bay Magnolia, and Crape Myrtle “Muskogee”. Bio-retention areas will be incorporated along the center of the neutral grounds as green infrastructure and storm water infiltration components of the City’s Master PlanPlanting. The project is estimated to take between 3-6 months to complete. See the Corps' Green Space presentation. (Click here for information on the entire SELA project) For questions or concerns, call (877) 427-0345 or email Jamie.C.Braun@usace.army.mil

Stop the D2Ds Support the IZD

Doubles to Dormitories

Approximately a year ago, an out of state developer, Amicus, began buying housing in neighborhoods near Tulane and Loyola Universities. Amicus favors doubles, particularly shotgun doubles, but will buy existing single-family properties, triples and multi-family. They generally build out to every setback and try to double the number of existing bedrooms and market them to college students for $ 1200 to $ 1500 a month. We call this housing model “Doubles to Dormitories” (“D2D”) - because the housing is so intense, it can only be compared to dormitories. In one instance Amicus (https://www.amicus-properties.com), purchased two adjacent shotgun doubles on Hillary Street and increased the number of bedrooms from four to eight in one double and from four to ten in the other, for a total of 18 bedrooms in two, adjacent shotgun doubles. Neither project has a single off-street parking space. This development model is so lucrative that real estate agents representing developers have been going door to door in the neighborhood asking residents to sell their houses. Just in the area of the MARI neighborhood association, approximately one residential property a month was being lost to these developers.If this practice is not halted, studied, and regulated it will forever change our neighborhoods.

District A Councilmember Giarrusso is addressing the problem. First, at his request, the Council passed an ordinance requiring the City Planning Commission staff to study the parking problem associated with D2D developments. That study has been completed. Second, to stop these developments until the study is completed and its recommendations acted upon, the council enacted an Interim Zoning District (IZD) bounded by S.Carrollton, S.Claiborne, Audubon St. and St. Charles Ave. The City Planning Commission, based upon a preliminary report by its staff, has requested that the IZD be removed. The council will be voting on this request soon.

CAN is urging the City Council to keep the Interim Zoning District in place to prevent a very dense student housing model - one that is changing the residential landscape around the University area - from expanding until the Council can take action.

City Planning Commission
PUBLIC HEARING: UNIVERSITY AREA PARKING STUDY
JULY 28, 1:30 PM
Via teleconference

The Parking Study report has been posted on the CPC website.

The report will be discussed at the CPC July 28 meeting beginning at 1:30 pm. The CPC wil then make a recommendation to the City Council. For more information go to the website: Stop Doubles to Dormitories (including a list of properties) created by Maple Area Residents Inc – MARI.

CAN conducted, via Zoom, 2 community conversations cocerning the D2D developments.

D2D, IZD Slide Show, 6-24-20 pdf

June 24 & 27, D2D ZOOM Meetings Summary

University Area Parking, IZD

City Planning Commission, Preliminary Staff Report, D2D IZD

University Area, Parking Study Motion

Ownership of D2Ds in University area

Photos and Plans of several D2Ds in the University area:

817-19 Hillary (photo)

817-19 Hillary (plan)

937-39 Dante (photo)

7307 Burthe (photo)

1409 Broadway (permit)

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CCA will restart collecting glass for recycling Saturday, June 27. The collections take place at Faith New Orleans, 7902 S. Claiborne Ave., (corner Fern St.) We now bring the glass to the Glass Half Full NOLA facility on Louisa St. (we used to bring it to the City's recyling center on Elysian Fields). From their website: "We collect and convert NOLA’s glass bottles — which have been cramming our landfills for decades — into useable products: sand and glass cullet. These precious materials are used for an array of things, from coastal restoration to flood prevention to eco-construction." Glass can also be brought to the city's recycling drop-off facility on Elysian Fields Ave. More information.

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Friends,

This is a special single-issue newsletter.

My primary focus has been, and will continue to be, on public safety. As the Council’s Public Works Committee Chair, we are particularly concerned with safe streets and good drainage. Each neighborhood in District A is important to me. In this newsletter, I will discuss roadwork currently underway under the FEMA program and what additional work should be coming soon.

While there are always issues to tackle (and making sure your street is repaired), we know without good streets and proper drainage, there is no city. It is not enough to point out the surface and subsurface problems. I, along with my great staff, work on common sense solutions to tackle these issues.

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