Residents, businesses, schools, and community stakeholders coming together

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An Action Plan for Recovery and Development for
Paris/Robert E. Lee ReNew Zone

• Residents, businesses, schools, and community
  stakeholders coming together

Billy Fields, PhD Center for Urban and Public
Affairs
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Outline

• Need for an Action Plan
• Establishing a Clear Vision
• Expectations (Defining Process of Task Force)
• Timeline

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• Problem Statement
• Past Plans Provide General Vision but
• Lack Concrete Implementation Mechanisms

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Goal

• Tie Together Vision from Previous Plans with
  Concrete Steps to Build a Workable Action Plan

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• Action Plan
• A Consensus Document Produced in Coordination
  with the Task Force
• Lays out a Clear Vision for Redevelopment Linked
  to Implementation Mechanisms and Policies

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• Extensive Planning Process Has Already Produced
  Solid Vision

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Vision The neighborhood hopes to reassert itself
as a retail and educational center through town
oriented improvements to the Lake Terrace Center,
the reopening of key educational facilities, and
the expansion of green space.
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• Project Vision
• Economically Vibrant, Walkable
• Community Linking Educational
• Facilities, Jobs, and Homes

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Project Context Gentilly
UNO
SUNO
Paris/Robert E. Lee Renew Zone
Baptist Theological Seminary
Elysian Fields/Gentilly Redevelopment Zone
Dillard
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Project Context Gentilly
UNO
SUNO
Paris/Robert E. Lee Renew Zone
Baptist Theological Seminary
Baptist Theological Seminary
Baptist Theological Seminary
Elysian Fields/Gentilly Redevelopment Zone
Dillard
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Economically Vibrant, Walkable Community Linking
Educational Facilities, Jobs, and Homes
UNO
Terrace Garden Apartments
Lake Terrace Center
Lake Area High School
Holy Cross High School
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• How will this be accomplished?
• Establishment of a Stakeholder-led Task Force
• Analysis of Housing Recovery Needs
• Creation of a Business Reinvestment Policy
  Toolkit
• Creation of an Action Plan to Spur Revitalization

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Residential Study Area
Paris and Robert E. Lee
St. Bernard
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• Analysis of Housing Recovery
• Identify Recovery Status of Housing through
  Technical Analysis (flooding depth, housing type,
  repetitive flood loss data, etc)
• Examine Incentives and Obstacles to Rebuilding
  
• Boil Down Data into Residential Recovery
  Indicators

Goal Identify Policies Designed to Overcome Key
Obstacles
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• Business Analysis Background
• Lake Terrace Shopping Center an Example of a
  National Trend Greyfield Shopping Areas that
  Need Redevelopment

Greyfield in PA (image courtesy PSU NEMO Image
Library
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Business Analysis Background

• Best Practices for Redevelopment of Grey Field
  Shopping Areas
• 1.Strong Partnerships with Key
• Stakeholders an Important Tool
• 2. Pulse Development Focus on Target
• Areas to Concentrate Energy
• 3. Focus on Connectivity and Walkability
• 4. Use Public Investment in Infrastructure
  
• to Spur Private Investment
• 5. Create a Place Build Community

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• Business Analysis
• Most current residential demographic data
• Review of successful and unsuccessful policy
  responses from around the country
• On-going communication and collaboration with
  residents and businesses to develop shared goals
• Outcome will be a policy toolbox of actions
  needed to reinvigorate this node

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Half- Mile Market Area
UNO
Elysian Fields
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One Mile Market Area
UNO
Elysian Fields
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• Action Plan
• Utilize the results of the business analysis and
  residential recovery data to create an Action
  Plan for the recovery.
• Action Items will
• 1. Identify targeted policies by city that can
  overcome obstacles
• 2. Build strategic partnerships that can be
  enhanced to spur recovery
• 3. Create a framework for continued action

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• Expectations
• UNO/RPC Team Conveners, Not Implementers
• UNO/RPC Team Brings Together Data on Residential
  and Commercial Recovery Indicators
• Task Force Provides Input on Action Plan and
  Builds Relationships that will Lead to
  Implementation
• Goal Task Force to Remain Engaged Throughout
  Implementation Process

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Website for Communication and Marketing
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Key Dates

• November 13, 2008 First Task
  Force Meeting
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  630 Edgewater Baptist Church
• December 9, 2008 Second
  Task Force Meeting
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  630 Edgewater Baptist Church
• January 20, 2009 Third
  Task Force Meeting
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  630 Edgewater Baptist Church
• March 3, 2009 Initial
  Draft Policy Recommendations
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  630 Edgewater Baptist Church
• April 7, 2009
  Second Draft Action Plan Meeting
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  630 Edgewater Baptist Church
• May 2009
  Final Draft of Action Plan Due