The New Orleans Citizen Participation Project

We are very happily celebrating the final step in the City of New Orleans' formal adoption of both policy and legal code that establishes the Early Notification System of the NOLA CPP model in our city.  First passed in policy form by the City Planning Commission last July, the policy document and amendments to the...

Despite the distractions of Super Bowl (which severely restricted access to downtown New Orleans for an entire week) and Mardi Gras, the Citizen Participation Project team has been completing some ongoing work and laying the groundwork for an immensely productive 2013.  The early part of the year is typically an...

The New Orleans Citizen Participation project is wrapping up one of its most successful years ever! As we reported previously, the New Orleans City Planning Commission adopted the first major piece of the New Orleans Citizen Participation Program this summer.  The Planning Commission calls its piece its "Neighborhood...

First, we are happy to report that New Orleans survived Hurricane Isaac with little worse than a lot of downed trees and extensive power outages.  However, the situation once again pointed out the need for a structured Citizen Participation Program, including high-quality, multi-modal lines of communications.  The...

We are thrilled to report substantial progress and growing opportunities to build on it for the New Orleans Citizen Participation Project! Working with the City of New Orleans Neighborhood Engagement Office and its director Lucas Diaz, we are engaged in several different projects to pilot -- within city entities --...

Just as spring brings new growth to our world, spring is bringing to new progress to the New Orleans Citizen Participation Project. Our District Council Pilot Project is moving ahead in partnership with the Gentilly Civic Improvement Association, which recently elected new leadership and restructured its committee...

The end of 2011 finds the New Orleans Citizen Participation Project (CPP) experiencing a mix of frustration and optimism.  The frustration comes because the indications at the beginning of the year were that New Orleans city government was going to adopt the CPP sometime this past summer and we could move into...

Summer in New Orleans is traditionally a very slow time, but not for the New Orleans Citizen Participation Project this year! Internal debates within city government slowed the city's process to produce the final NOLA CPP design, but we were privileged to work closely with the director of the Neighborhood Engagement Office,...

The NOLA CPP team has finished pilot project reports, one on the Gentilly Civic Improvement Association and one on the Greater New Orleans Housing Alliance. We hope both of these reports will inform the process to adopt a participation system for the city of New Orleans. Additionally, the NOLA CPP team is currently working...