| Orleans Parish Goals |
| Environmental |
- Restore and improve 1100 acres of City Park by Spring 2011.
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| Housing and Community Development |
- Address the housing shortage by providing assistance to rebuild up to 134,000 damaged or destroyed rental units and rehabilitate up to 67,000 owner occupied homes; including quality, affordable housing options for approximately 30,000 displaced senior residents and 17,000 displaced low income families by the end of 2008. Appropriate and required mitigation measures will be included in this assistance.
- Allow mixed use development, and restore and protect 33,000 historic and culturally significant buildings by April 2007.
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| Economic and Workforce Development |
- Strengthen the areas of the city where small and minority businesses begin, grow and mature.
- Strengthen and restore tourism to pre-storm levels within three years.
- Target assistance for small and emerging industries and firms.
- Revitalize older and underutilized areas of the downtown.
- Increase the number and quality of the local labor supply.
- Diversify employment so that there is a greater share of manufacturing and light industrial employment and Orleans at least holds its share or gains as a percent of the region.
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| Public Health and Healthcare |
- Re-establish medical infrastructure and quality services by 2010.
- Ensure the minimum adequate access to behavioral health services, standard for which is one full-time mental health provider per 9,000 people, and one full-time substance abuse counselor per 4,200 people.
- Re-establish comprehensive primary care services through a neighborhood-based service delivery model by 2010.
- Re-establish 2 medical school programs by August 2006.
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| Transportation and Infrastructure |
- Reestablish the parish's roadways and traffic management to efficiently accomodate traffic through the city by 2007.
- Stimulate a swift revitalization of commercial and residential neighborhoods while encouraging access between communities across the waterway by 2010.
- Reestablish the regional Mass Transit System in order to provide efficient, safe, and environmentally friendly public transit services to nearly 220,000 individuals in New Orleans by 2008.
- Relocate existing deep draft port facilities, tenants, and industries of the Port of New Orleans in order to provide a safer and deeper port for the movement of up to 50 million tons of cargo per year by 2008.
- Collect data on damages to the sewer and water delivery systems in order to accurately quantify water loss.
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| Education |
- Design and restore an educational system conducive to educational excellence; a system that promotes student success and equity in access to educational services. Reopen 56 schools by August 2008.
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| Human Services |
- Improve organizational capacity of nonprofit organizations in the Greater New Orleans area. Re-establish services to meet needs of families impacted by the storm by 2007.
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| Flood Protection and Coastal Restoration |
- Create or restore 4,000 acres of critically located coastal wetlands and other habitats that buffer and protect communities and infrastructure in Orleans Parish and southeast Louisiana.
- Build structures to serve as storm surge buffers. These structures will significantly reduce storm surge and protect coastal wetlands.
- Develop alternatives to levees to protect the city from flooding.
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