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City Planning Commission adopts Lower Coast Algiers impact study amid heated debate over multifamily rights and federal fair-housing concerns
Summary
The City Planning Commission adopted a staff-prepared impact study recommending limits on high-density development in Lower Coast Algiers. Residents, developers and advocates traded sharply different interpretations of the study’s population and infrastructure estimates and raised pending federal litigation and possible HUD funding impacts.
The City Planning Commission on Nov. 12 adopted a staff-prepared Lower Coast Algiers impact study that advises against permitting large-scale multifamily development in much of Planning District 13 and recommends mapping changes to limit future high-density development.
Staff said the study — prepared after agency questionnaires and an inventory of local infrastructure — found limited roadway, sewer and emergency-service capacity in the Lower Coast area and that building to the maximum allowable multifamily entitlements would require large developer and public investments. “Staff recommends changing the master plan future land use map designations in the zoning districts in Lower Coast Algiers to limit future high density development,” a member of the planning staff told the commission.
The commission’s adoption followed more than two hours of public testimony from residents, neighborhood association representatives and developers. Lee DuPont of the Lower Coast Algiers Association thanked…
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