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Council adopts interim zoning district to pause new hotels and short-term rentals
Summary
To buy time for a short-term lodging study, the council approved an interim zoning district requiring conditional-use approval for hotels, motels and short-term rentals citywide. City Planning staff said the pause lasts up to one year while the commission finalizes recommendations.
The New Orleans City Council voted to adopt an interim zoning district that requires conditional-use review for transient lodging citywide, effectively pausing new hotels and many commercial short-term rentals while the City Planning Commission finalizes a study and recommended regulations.
City Planning Commission staff described the…
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