The New Orleans City Planning Commission convened on Tuesday, January 23, 2024, at 1:41 p.m. to consider a full agenda of zoning dockets, subdivision requests, and a property acquisition. The meeting featured robust public testimony on several items, with a focus on affordable housing, neighborhood compatibility, and infrastructure concerns in Lower Coast Algiers.
And that's what he's trying to find out. Okay, great. Good afternoon, everybody. Uh we'll now get started. Thank you for your patience. Uh welcome to uh today's city planning commission meeting. It is Tuesday, January twenty third, uh twenty twenty-four at one forty one PM. First, uh we'll start business today by calling uh roll, uh Commissioner Lund. Present. Commissioner Josh. Commissioner Whitley? Here. Commissioner Jordan here. Commissioner Brown? Here. Commissioner Steve? Here. Commissioner Stewart. Present. So next is adoption of the meeting minutes for January 9th, twenty twenty-four. I'll make a map approve the meeting minutes. Seconds, Commissioner Steve. Next, I'll read the public uh the formal public hearing rules. Uh the city planning commission has established certain rules governing the procedures to be followed at public hearings. Before speaking, each person shall give their name, address and state whom he or she is representing for the proposal will speak first for a period of ten minutes. Each speaker shall be allowed a maximum of two minutes. This procedure shall be followed except at such a time when the presiding officer shall, with the approval of the commission members present, extend such time. And now we will move to our first docket item. Zoning docket 00924. Uh oh. Nope. The mics are down. Testing, testing. Can you hear me? Yeah. Yes. Great. All right. Zoning Docket 009-24 is a request by Xavier University for a zoning change from an EC educational campus district to a C3 heavy commercial district for property located at 3801 South Carolton Avenue. As this property falls within two overlay districts, this is also a request to amend text of the comprehensive zoning ordinance to exempt this property from the EC enhancement corridor design overlay district and the HUC Historic Urban Corridor use restriction overlay district. The purpose of both requests is to accommodate moving a billboard which had non-conforming status at 4700 Howard Avenue. The 4700 Howard Avenue location is currently undergoing construction for a new parking garage for Xavier University students and employees. Staff has been engaged with the applicant for several weeks to see if there would be a way for the applicant to work with the owner of the billboard to rectify their private servitude agreement without having to go through a zoning change in tax amendment. We did not receive information on the status of their internal review until the day before the deadline to submit the report. So staff is requesting a deferral to the February 6th CPC hearing to complete a review and recommendations for the Commission. Thank you. I like Commissioner on move for a deferral of zoning docket nine-24 until the next meeting is it? February uh sixth. February 6th. Is there a second?