On the January 11th, 2006, residents of New Orleans's Broadmoor neighborhood, which bore the deep scars left by Hurricane Katrina, were shocked by the headlines in The Times-Picayune. The Urban Planning Committee of a mayoral commission charged with increasing a reconstruction plan for the hurricane-ravaged city had projected giving hard-hit neighborhoods like Broadmoor four months to prove that they were feasible and, therefore, value rebuilding. Even worse, the newspaper had printed a composite map, drawn from the committee's report, which revealed six green dots showing low lying places that could be turned into parks and "greenspace." Broadmoor was covered by one of those green dots. Incensed at what they viewed as a treachery by their own city government, Broadmoor residents who had returned to salvaged their flood-damaged houses began to contemplate how to save their region from the bulldozers.
Their efforts hastily coalesced around the Broadmoor Improvement Association-an esteemed neighborhood organization-and a resolve to create their own strategy for recovery. A core group of residents-many of whom had never met none of whom had worked on a redevelopment plan and each other -would take the lead in coordinating the preparation procedure for the -isolated community.
PUBLICATION DATE: October 15, 2008 PRODUCT #: KS1016-HCB-ENG
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