1999 Grant Recipient Information
Louisiana

Transportation/Community Systems Optimization through Non-Traditional Partnering and Infrastructure Prioritization
New Orleans Metropolitan Area, Louisiana

Abstract

The project will develop and implement various mechanisms to affect land use growth factors and system tools in order to guide transportation development, community and system preservation and regional metropolitan sprawl. Traditional tools, such as, zoning and growth boundaries, and non- traditional approaches, such as open space reservations, land banking, environmental sensitivity ratings and linkages to empowerment zone planning, brownfield redevelopment, regional environmental initiatives and other quality of sustainable life indicators will be employed. These mechanisms will focus on both internal and external factors that could effect growth patterns. External factors to the region will emphasize an "outside to inside" approach, while internal factors to the region will focus on the "inside to outside" methodology. This project will be regional (including five or more parishes in Southeast Louisiana) in scope over a twenty year planning period with various smaller geopolitical units utilized as "pilot application models" in order to assess and evaluate implementation. The goal of the project is the development of regional strategies and tools that can lead to a long- range plan and a map of growth/sprawl boundaries for a regional livability standard based on balance and sustainability. These tools will lead to a capital project management plan for the effective and efficient timing and construction of transportation infrastructure, and ultimately establish a framework for the control and monitoring of regional metropolitan sprawl. The goal of the program would be to form the coalitions of interest groups in the Region's 1.3 million population required to realize the level of knowledgeable voter tax support to implement sustainable land use and transportation growth measures such as improved mass transit services, the encouragement of employment cluster development, and the non duplication of infrastructure.

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