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Voting Precincts
data.nola.gov | Last Updated 2023-06-13T16:49:46.000Z<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>Boundaries of Orleans Parish voting precincts as defined by the New Orleans City Charter. New Orleans voting precincts are drawn according to the New Orleans Home Rule Charter as required by the State of Louisiana. A precinct is defined in the state of Louisiana's election code as the smallest political unit of a ward having defined geographical boundaries. Precinct boundaries were updated September 25, 2015, in order to satisfy population changes discovered by the Orleans Registrar of Voters Office. The changes have been made by the City of New Orleans and verified by the Louisiana Secretary of State's Office. Information about voter registation can be found here: https://www.sos.la.gov/ElectionsAndVoting/Pages/RegistrationStatisticsParish.aspx </SPAN></P><P><SPAN /></P><P><SPAN>https://www.municode.com/library/la/new_orleans/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=PTIICO_CH58EL_ARTIIELPR</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>State Law</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>RS 18:532. Establishment of precincts</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>A. Subject to the provisions of R.S. 18:532.1 and 1903, the governing authority of each parish shall establish precincts, define the territorial limits for which each precinct is established, prescribe their boundaries, and designate the precincts. The governing authority of each parish shall by ordinance adopt the establishment and boundaries of each precinct in accordance with the timetable as set forth herein and in accordance with R.S. 18:532.1.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>B.(1)(a) Each precinct shall be a contiguous, compact area having clearly defined and clearly observable boundaries coinciding with visible features readily distinguishable on the ground and approved extensions of such features, such as designated highways, roads, streets, rivers, or canals, and depicted on United States Bureau of the Census base maps for the next federal decennial census, except where the precinct boundary is coterminous with the boundary of a parish or an incorporated place when the boundaries of a single precinct contain the entire geographic area of the incorporated place. Except as otherwise provided in this Paragraph, on and after July 1, 1997, any precinct boundary which does not coincide with a visible feature shall be changed by the parish governing authority to coincide with a visible feature in accordance with R.S. 18:532.1.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>(b) For the purposes of this Paragraph, the term "approved extension" shall mean an extension of one visible feature to another visible feature which has been approved by the secretary of the Senate and the clerk of the House of Representatives or their designees and which is or which will be a census tabulation boundary.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>(2) No precinct shall be wholly contained within the territorial boundaries of another precinct, except that a precinct which contains the entire geographical area of an incorporated place and in which the total number of registered voters at the last general election was less than three hundred may be so contained.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>(3) No precinct shall contain more than two thousand two hundred registered voters within its geographic boundaries. Within thirty days after the completion of each canvass, the registrar of voters of each parish shall notify the parish governing authority of every precinct in the parish which contains more than two thousand two hundred registered voters within its geographic boundaries. Within sixty days of such notification, the parish governing authority shall divide such precincts by a visible feature in accordance with R.S. 18:532.1.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>(4)(a) No precinct shall contain less than three hundred registered voters within its geographical boundaries, except:</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>(i) When necessary to make it more convenient for voters in a geographically isolated and unincorporated area to vote. A voter in a geographically isolated and unincorporated area shall mean a voter whose residen
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Permits - BLDS
data.nola.gov | Last Updated 2024-10-10T06:04:33.000ZCity of New Orleans permit data starting from 1/01/2012. This dataset has been transformed to meet the standards outlined by the Building and Land Development Specification (BLDS).
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Place Based Planning
data.nola.gov | Last Updated 2024-04-24T19:06:59.000ZPlace-based developing leverages investments by focusing resources in targeted places and drawing on the compounding effect of well-coordinated action. Effective place-based development can influence how rural and metropolitan areas grow, how well they function as places to live, work, operate a business, preserve heritage, and more. Place-based policies can also streamline otherwise redundant and disconnected programs and maximize efficiencies of operation and budget. The Direct Homebuyer Assistance Program in New Orleans provides down payment and closing costs subsidies to eligible first- time homebuyers. The subsidies bridge the gap between the price of the home (including closing costs) and the maximum amount a homebuyer can borrow with a first mortgage loan. The homebuyer receives only the amount of soft second funding that is needed to close the affordability gap. While all areas of the city are eligible for this program. Houses within the Place-Based Strategy Areas are eligible for slightly higher subsidies.
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BlightStatus Demolitions
data.nola.gov | Last Updated 2019-11-26T18:05:10.000ZBlighted structures that have been demolished since the inception of BlightStat on October 1, 2010. BlightStat is a public meeting that tracks the City's progress in meeting Mayor Landrieu's stated goal of eliminating 10,000 blighted New Orleans properties in three years. Scheduled update: QuarterlyIn February 2014, the City made several changes to the dataset involving data cleaning and de-duplication. This process entailed adding demolition start and completion dates to demolitions, cleaning and verifying the addresses of demolitions, and removing duplicate cases based on their GeoPIN. The data set still includes several cases with duplicated GeoPINs, where multiple units were demolished on the same parcel.Acronyms used in the dataset:Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)Imminent Danger of Collapse (IDC)New Orleans Redevelopment Authority (NORA)Strategic Demolition for Economic Recovery (SDER) also known asNew Orleans Strategic Demo (NOSD)Louisiana Land Trust (LLT) UPDATED: 9/13/17
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NOLA Permits - LAMA (Historic Data: 2004-2011)
data.nola.gov | Last Updated 2017-01-23T21:41:08.000ZCity of New Orleans Permits (March 2004 thru December 2011). Tabular data (DBF), Large dataset - 300,000+ records. Historic permit data transferred from Acella system to LAMA (Municipal Land Management Solution Framework)
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School Board Districts
data.nola.gov | Last Updated 2023-06-13T16:50:01.000Z<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>Orleans Parish School Board Districts as adopted by OPSB on February 28, 2012. The Board adopted the Alternative “A” Amended Plan with two changes recommended from the floor. The first change being that Precint 6-8 be moved from Dstrict 3 to District 7. The second change being that Precinct 15-13 be moved from District 7 to District 4.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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NOLA Permits - Accela (Historic Data: 3/2004 - 3/2012)
data.nola.gov | Last Updated 2017-01-23T21:41:03.000ZCity of New Orleans Permits (March 2004 to March 2012). ESRI shapefile format, GIS software required for viewing geometry (http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcreader/). Tabular data (DBF), included as part of the shapefile, are viewable in Excel. Large dataset - 400,000+ records. Associated spreadsheet 'Permits_3PrimeDomain' lists domains for three of the primary permit fields.
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Benchmarks for Blight
data.nola.gov | Last Updated 2016-03-09T21:00:49.000ZIn 2006, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) began acquiring quarterly extracts of U.S. Postal Service (USPS) data and publishing this data as a possible indicator of blight and vacancy for cities nationwide. In this report, addresses coded as “no–stat” in the HUD data are used as proxies for blighted housing units in New Orleans because a parcel–by–parcel census of all properties in New Orleans is not available. (HUD data description available at: http://www.huduser.org/portal/datasets/usps.html)
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City Council Districts
data.nola.gov | Last Updated 2023-06-13T16:49:44.000Z<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>New Orleans City Council Districts, effective May 5, 2014 Voters placed in the districts displayed on January 1, 2014 for all future elections. Council districts are based upon the 2010 census and redistricting. Precincts are drawn according to the New Orleans Home Rule Charter. Precinct boundaries were updated September 25, 2015, in order to satisfy population changes discovered by the Orleans Registrar of Voters Office. The changes have been made by the City of New Orleans and verified by the Louisiana Secretary of State's Office.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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NOLA Census 1990
data.nola.gov | Last Updated 2015-08-25T22:21:46.000Z1990 City of New Orleans/Orleans Parish Census data. ESRI shapefile format, GIS software required for viewing geometry (http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcreader/). Tabular data (DBF), included as part of the shapefile, are viewable in Excel.