Votes at a glance: council adopts multiple zoning items, event clean zone and honorary street designations

The New Orleans City Council approved a range of items during the meeting, including the consent agenda, several zoning approvals, a temporary special-event clean zone for the Essence Festival and multiple honorary-intersection designations.

Key outcomes recorded in the meeting: • Consent agenda: adopted (vote recorded as 5 yeas, no nays). • Zoning docket 62-25 (small multifamily affordable dwelling text amendment): motions to deny CPC’s modified approval and to direct CPC to consider nonprofit community land trusts were adopted as part of the discussion (motions recorded in the transcript). • Zoning docket 65-25 (Remy Enterprise conditional-use for hotel on Washington Avenue): CPC recommended approval with provisos; the council considered motions to suspend rules and to adopt the item; recorded votes show adoption activity. • Transient lodging interim district (Article 19 text amendment): adopted to require conditional use for transient lodging citywide (7 yays, no nays). • WK Kellogg Foundation grant and related grant authorization: the council added and adopted a motion authorizing the mayor to enter into a grant agreement for a $200,000 urban food plan development (vote recorded as 6 yeas, no nays for grant authorization addition; subsequent adoption recorded as 6 yeas, no nays). • Honorary-designation motions: the council designated the intersection of North Johnson and Independence Street as the Big Chief Donald Harrison Sr. honorary intersection (measure passed 7–0).

The clerk read the roll for multiple ordinance-first-read items at the end of the calendar and the council adjourned after the votes were recorded.