Unified Plan
Here are my rough notes from a meeting of the Unified Plan This is the Process that was anounced by the Mayor and funded by The Rockefeller Foundation and faccilitated by Concordia.
The web site was launched today, and there will be more content on Monday. We have been told that there are 5 Planning Firms hired to do City Wide Planning. i.e. Highways, Roads and Transit.
Then there are 18 Planning Fimrs selected at the Neighborhood Level.
2 IMPORTANT dates to remember are Sunday July 30
Tuesday Aug 1
On those dates we will be introduced to the Planning Teams and given information to inform our decisions to choose a planner.
The site has not yet been announced.
The route that this plan will then travel is this: A consolidated plan, sent to City Planning and then to City Council. After approval it is sent to the LRA which presents to HUD.
Please keep an eye on the Unified Web Site and I will continue to post here.
H3 Studio (St. Louis, MO)
Goody Clancy (Boston, MA)
ACORN Housing (New Orleans)
Frederic Schwartz Architects (New York, NY)
EDSA (Columbia, MD)
For Neighborhoods only:
EDAW (San Francisco, CA)
E. Eean McNaughton Architects (New Orleans)
Burk-Kleinpeter (New Orleans)
Williams Architects (New Orleans)
HDR and HOK (Tampa, FL and St. Louis, MO)
Duany Plater-Zyberk (Miami, FL)
KL&M/ CH Planning (New Orleans and Philadelphia, PA)
now. (New Orleans; Boston, MA; Charlottesville
_ Davis Brody Bond (New York, NY)_
Torre Design Consortium (New Orleans)
Citywide Infrastructure Planning:
First Recommendation: Villavaso/Henry Citywide Recovery Planning Team (New Orleans)
First Alternate: Louis Berger Group (East Orange, NJ)
Second Alternate: Perez/Goody Clancy (New Orleans, Boston

July 21st, 2006 at 1:48 pm
Thanks for the post, Karen. They keep scheduling meeting when I cannot possibly make that. They really need to slot some for the evenings.
July 21st, 2006 at 10:30 pm
I know most of the names of most and many of the people involved.
We the people of New Orleans need to take charge in a truly grass roots effort. Storm the baracades, demand our city and keep every pseudo planned in the planet from retirin of the basis of our internal political divisions.
Act!