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Council directs study of Algiers rezoning, residents call for infrastructure assessments

New Orleans City Council · February 12, 2026
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Summary

Council member King moved council to direct the City Planning Commission to study rezoning a swath of the 5th Municipal District in Algiers to encourage commercial uses; an online commenter asked that agency infrastructure assessments (drainage, fire, police, displacement risk) be required before any rezoning recommendation.

Council member King moved a motion directing the City Planning Commission to conduct a public hearing and consider zoning map amendments for a group of lots in the 5th Municipal District (bounded by Berman Place, Holiday Drive, General DeGaulle Drive, the Algiers Canal and the former Brechtel Golf Course) to permit commercial and pedestrian-oriented business districts compatible with the…

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