The New Orleans City Planning Commission met on July 14, 2026, to consider a range of zoning and subdivision dockets. Key items included multiple commercial short-term rental applications, a car wash proposal, text amendments for recording studios and adaptive reuse, and a subdivision for the Omni Convention Center Headquarters Hotel. The meeting featured extensive public testimony and several votes, with some items passing narrowly and others being deferred or effectively denied.
The meeting adjourned at an unspecified time.
Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to today's City Planning Commission meeting. We're going to go ahead and get started. I'm going to do roll call. Commissioner Poche. Commissioner Keffer. Here. Commissioner Abear. Commissioner Flick. Commissioner Whitry is present. Commissioner Jordan. Present. Awesome. Thank you. 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 who he or she is representing. Each speaker will be allowed a maximum of two minutes. Opponents will not be able to rebut. All right, Commissioner uh Josie Gupta, let the record reflect that you are here. And um I've just been informed that our new system is not up and running yet, so I am going to have to call votes for everyone. And also um Commissioner Jackson is present as well. So adoption of the meeting minutes um for June 9th and June 23rd. Is there a motion? Commissioner Flick will make a motion for approval for meeting minutes. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner Aber seconded, Commissioner Flick uh made a motion. Is any discussion no, then let's go ahead and vote. All right, Commissioner Jackson. Yes. All right, um Commissioner Jordan. Yes. Commissioner Whitry, yes. Commissioner Flick, yes. Commissioner Abear? Yes. Um Commissioner Josie Gupta? Yes. Commissioner Kepper, yes. And um Commissioner Poche. Yes. All right. The adoption has moved and meeting minutes have been approved. We're gonna move on to the first um zoning docket, 059-26. Zoning Docket 5926 affects a uh application for a commercial short-term rental on Toledano Street, um, where the Planning Commission staff recommended approval. Um this kind of had an extensive back and forth at the July 14th meeting. Um ultimately after several votes, the Commission uh decided to defer the matter to today's meeting and really had two questions that you as commission were seeking answers to uh between that past meeting and today's meeting. So the first question is if this is denied, could it be resubmitted once new regulations for commercial short-term rentals are adopted, even if that is within two years? Normally there is a prohibition on resubmitting that and a denied application within two years. In this case, should there be, as there probably will be, uh new regulations adopted, that would essentially reset the uh the deck and allow for the application to be resubmitted.