Garden District Ass'n v. City of New Orleans

SAMUEL, Judge.

The Protestant Home for Babies, an adoption agency licensed to perform child-placing functions by the Louisiana Department of Public Welfare, owns and operates a nursery at 1233 Eighth Street in the Garden District of the City of New Orleans and a maternity residence for unwed mothers on property adjoining the nursery. The operation is a legal, nonconforming use in a district zoned “B-2 Family” under the present zoning ordinance, the Comprehensive Zoning Law of the City of New Orleans of 1953, as amended. On April 29, 1969 the Home applied to the Department of Safety & Permits…