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Council amends zoning to let existing single-family homes in select districts expand and host home-based childcare without a conditional-use process
Summary
A narrow zoning-text amendment makes existing single-family homes and home-based childcare permitted uses (by-right) in the GPD district in Lower Algiers and New Orleans East, intended to help small family child-care providers add classroom space and expand early-childhood capacity.
City Hall — The New Orleans City Council approved a text amendment to the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance so that existing single-family dwellings and home-based childcare centers in the General Plan Development (GPD) district may expand by right without requiring a conditional-use review.
CPC staff and council members said the change…
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