Description: The New Orleans City Council is the legislative branch of local government. The council enacts laws to protect the public health, safety and welfare of the citizens of New Orleans. There are five representative council districts in New Orleans. The boundaries were reapportioned to reflect population changes detected in the 2010 Census. These boundaries are current as of May 5, 2014.
Definition Expression: N/A
Copyright Text: New Orleans City Council Clerk of Council
Description: The planning districts were created in 1997 or so as the City Planning Commission was beginning a Master Plan process. The boundaries have never been changed and are intended to be permanent so that data collected can show trends within the planning districts over time. When they were created, the boundaries matched Census tract boundaries.
Description: This file was provided by MWH to display neighborhood boundaries. There are multiple errors in this file; howerver, it was the best available data at the time of this project.
Name: National Register of Historic Places District
Display Field: NAME
Type: Feature Layer
Geometry Type: esriGeometryPolygon
Description: A National Register historic district is a historic district that is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The National Register is our country’s official list of historic properties and resources worthy of preservation. It includes individual buildings, structures, sites, and objects as well as historic districts that are considered to be significant in American history, architecture, engineering, archaeology, and culture. Status: 1 = NRHP District, 2 = Proposed NRHP District, 3 = NRHP Listed - Large Site
Description: Louisiana's Cultural Products Districts provide for tax free sales of original works of visual art, as well as tax credits for commercial and residential renovation within the specified district. The primary goal of this initiative is to spark community revitalization based on cultural activity though tax incentives. This polygon dataset depicts generalized boundaries for those districts within the City of New Orelans, it is designed to be used in conjuction with both ownership parcels and addresses for determinination of included individual properties.