1.4 Statement of Purpose

In pursuit of this policy, these regulations shall be applied to accomplish the following purposes:

1.4.1 Master Plan Implementation.   

These regulations guide the future growth and development of the City in accordance with the Master Plan. 

1.4.2 General welfare.   

These regulations promote, protect and provide for the public health, safety, convenience, and general welfare of the residents of the City of New Orleans.

1.4.3 Growth management/Social and economic stability.   

These regulations protect the character and the social and economic stability of all parts of the City. To encourage the orderly and beneficial development of the community through appropriate growth management techniques which assure adequate public facilities accompany new development. To promote infill development in existing neighborhoods and in non-residential areas where adequate public facilities already exist. To assure orderly development and adequate open space and protection of environmentally sensitive areas and areas premature for urban development.

1.4.4 Health and safety.   

To provide for adequate light, air, and privacy. To secure  safety from fire, flood and other danger, and to prevent the overcrowding of land and undue congestion of population.

1.4.5 Land uses.   

To protect, conserve and enhance the economic and ecological value of land and the value of buildings and improvements on the land, and to minimize the conflicts among the uses of land and buildings.

1.4.6 Circulation.   

To provide for safe and efficient circulation of traffic with particular regard to the avoidance of congestion, to the proper separation between pedestrians and local and through traffic, and to provide for the proper location and width of streets, buffer zones and building lines.

1.4.7 Environment.   

To prevent the pollution of air and water bodies, to assure the adequacy of drainage, and to encourage the wise use and management of natural resources in order to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the community and the value of land. To preserve the natural beauty of the land and to ensure appropriate development with regard to those natural features.

1.4.8 Open space.   

To provide open space through efficient design and layout of subdivisions. To encourage the designation as permanent open space those lands that are subject to flooding or unsuited for development for other geo- morphological reasons.

1.4.9 Design standards.   

To establish reasonable design standards and procedures for subdivisions in order to further the orderly layout and use of land. To encourage innovative subdivision design that will produce attractive, convenient and diversified living environments.

1.4.10 Public services and facilities.   

To ensure that public facilities and services are available concurrently with development. To ensure that the community will bear  no more than its fair share of the cost of providing facilities and services by requiring the developer to make improvements, pay fees, dedicate land, or establish mitigation measures to ensure that the needs for capital facilities generated by the development are borne in fair proportion by the development itself.