| St. Tammany Parish Goals |
| Housing and Community Development |
- Construct approximately 15,000 homeowner and rental units to meet the needs of post-hurricane population increase (22,500 new households) by 2011.
- Develop mixed-income housing to adequately meet the post-Katrina need for workforce housing.
- Create a parish-level housing financing entity to support local housing and community development initiatives, assist with creative financing solutions, and provide funding to local developers of affordable housing by 2008.
- Within a year, update pre-existing comprehensive plans and urban design guidelines to accommodate the parish's changed demographics post-Katrina.
- Repair or replace the 83 units of public housing for low- and very-low-income residents destroyed by Hurricane Katrina by 2008.
- Restore 18,870 units of housing stock damaged by Katrina to pre-storm capacity, including homes damaged by flooding and winds. Some 1500 units should be affordable to low- and moderate-income residents.
- Preserve and enhance local historically and culturally important districts that were damaged by Hurricane Katrina or are threatened by population growth.
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| Economic and Workforce Development |
- Train 10,000 workers for jobs in the high tech, healthcare, building trades, ship building and service industry within five years.
- Create a workforce training program that provides workers with industry-based certifications and articulated credit to post-secondary schools.
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| Public Health and Healthcare |
- Provide health care services, facilities and workforce training in order to support a health care system that meets the changed needs resulting from hurricanes Katrina and Rita, by 2012.
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| Transportation and Infrastructure |
- By 2010, develop and implement plan to repair and upgrade roads and other infrastructure to handle increased loads post-Katrina.
- By 2009, repair and consolidate hurricane-damaged wastewater treatment facilities, and increase capacity to meet demands of increased population.
- Rebuild roads and infrastructure with designs that facilitate efficient evacuation in the case of a future emergency.
- Repair or replace governmental structures damaged by hurricane Katrina by 2008.
- Extend existing municipal natural gas service into new commercial and residential growth areas over the next 2 years by construction of new distribution lines.
- By 2009, ensure water pressure and flow at no less than minimum NFPA fire protection standards in water distribution systems across the parish.
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| Education |
- Construct a consolidated arts/science/technology center to replace damaged facilities from various locations within 6 months of funding.
- Provide technical, scientific and artistic instruction to approximately 1,000 storm-displaced area high school students.
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| Public Safety |
- By 2007, evaluate emergency response capacity of parish (both infrastructure and staffing) and develop plan to repair damaged facilities and meet the needs of an increased population .
- By 2007, develop and implement an interoperable communication system to be used parish-wide by all first responder organizations.
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| Flood Protection and Coastal Restoration |
- Rebuild and enhance the drainage system throughout the Parish by 2010.
- Create approximately 2,400 acres of wetlands - half of the amount lost as a result of Hurricane Katrina - and protect approximately 6,000 acres of intermediate marsh by 2026.
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