Faubourg Marigny Improvement Ass'n v. City of New Orleans

PAUL A. BONIN, Judge.

h Despite years of public “listening” sessions sponsored by the New Orleans City Planning Commission and public hearings before the Commission, which resulted in a recommendation for a specified complete *610overhaul of the City’s Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, the City Council at the urging of Mayor Mitchell Landrieu substantively modified the Commission’s recommendation as it affected the distinctive Faubourg Marigny neighborhood. The neighborhood association and two of the residents of Faubourg Marigny joined in a suit to declare the adoption of the Mayor’s amendment,…