Orleans Parish - Local Recovery Vision

Community Vision

In five years, the Crescent City will be a cohesive re-integrated community with:

• New and improved critical infrastructure to include Category 5 levee protection, restored coastal wetlands, and funds to maintain each
• Improved public services including communications, energy, and health
• Sustainable, equitable and transparent approaches to rebuilding
• A diversifying economy to sustain a growing and educated population
• A commitment to revival using principles of Smart Growth to insure a balance of recovery and long term sustainability.

Equitable economic growth

• New Orleans will have a diverse economy that encompasses both traditional and emerging industries and services, fosters new and small business growth, and supports a cooperative regional framework.
• New Orleans will have strong neighborhood commercial centers and more effectively link its component neighborhoods into a cohesive mutually supportive economic entity.
• The New Orleans workforce will have the training opportunities to become qualified for the post hurricane mix of employment opportunities.
• New Orleans will work to see that each citizen has a living wage, reasonable benefits and a decent home from which to improve their lives.

Public services that contribute to “quality of life”

• New Orleans will create a modern high performing public education system as a key component in its rebuilding
• Health services in New Orleans will be rebuilt in a manner that ensures equitable access and improved service for all residents, and supports economic growth in the parish.
• New Orleans Water and Wastewater systems will be restored to provide services in an efficient and environmentally sensitive manner.
• New Orleans will reestablish a multimodal transportation system taking advantage of opportunities to create a pedestrian friendly system that accommodates bicycles, automobiles and mass transit.
• New Orleans will rebuild and enhance its enviable system of parks, green areas, and cultural spaces.

A planned and designed community that advances livability

• New Orleans will preserve the best of its past while accommodating future needs for redevelopment and redefinition.
• New Orleans will be noted for its mixed income, mixed use neighborhoods.
• New Orleans neighborhoods will foster diversity and social equity.