Alive New Orleans

Alive New Orleans Alive New Orleans Supports the Constructive & Creative Growth of New Orleans and stands opposed to the opposition that would hold our city back.

Alive New Orleans is for a city that is focused on the future and aggressive in promoting growth. Restoring New Orleans' rightful place as a center of the U.S. and World economy so that we can have a strong, vibrant & prosperous population that has the capacity to meet our own needs.

08/09/2017

needs to stop accepting idea we can't have drainage system that prevents & build city that has capacity to do it

07/22/2017

Alive New Orleans is working to promote the constructive and creative growth of New Orleans.

• Reduce the obstacles to our growth and rejuvenation.
• Encourage the city to create an “easy button” to opening businesses in New Orleans.
• Advocate for a less restrictive zoning code that allows for creative use of properties.
• Continuously assist the city in finding ways to streamline and enforce the municipal code by discouraging narrowly geographically targeted codes.
• Be a strong voice for economic development, particularly in sectors that are underdeveloped currently and utilize the graduates of our colleges and universities.
• Suggesting policies and laws to lawmakers that help New Orleans grow. Also working with civic leaders on removing barriers to growth and the ordinances, rules, regulations and laws that act as an obstacle to change.
• Allow more Permitted uses in the zoning code, including Live Music, to help us sustain our city and grow its economic & cultural future.
• Increase the recognition that culture emerges from a city’s economy and that trying to turn the culture into the economy has the effect of distorting the culture and not providing enough of an economic lift to keep the vast majority of the citizens in New Orleans.
• Bringing awareness that increasing the population and insuring that New Orleans is central to the economy of the country will be the only way the city gets the resources to protect itself from potential natural disasters.
• Working with entrepreneurs and businesses to bring a full & complete set of retail and businesses to the city to enhance job opportunity for our citizens, sales tax revenue for our city’s needs & convenient shopping for our people. And fighting the organized opposition of those with a very narrow notion what opportunity New Orleans should provide its citizens and businesses.
• Advocating for, and eventually working to facilitate, local financing of local companies by encouraging start-up and expansion investment in New Orleans businesses.
• Encouraging New Orleanians and New Orleans businesses, who left the last couple decades in search of more opportunity and a friendlier business climate, to return to New Orleans.
Alive New Orleans will strive to help the city create an environment that provides the opportunity our people have found elsewhere & a business climate that encourages growth.

07/16/2017

The primary issues of this city are economic and structural and until those are addressed it is difficult to fix the more obvious ones.
This city needs Population growth, Economic development, Jobs and to fix the zoning code.
It is difficult to work on flood control, water bills, tax bills and business sustainability without growing the population.
It is nearly impossible to address crime and education if you don't focus on jobs.
It is very difficult to deal with potholes, police pay, and almost everything else without being aggressive in encouraging economic development.
And since we have a zoning code that says NO to jobs and economic development and population growth, that forces even the most mundane projects through months of "approvals' and "design review" by bureaucrats at city hall it's difficult to fix the rest of it.
We need leadership in City Hall that recognizes the big picture, That the underlying problems in New Orleans are economic and structural. If a candidate can articulate that in a way that doesn't leave any New Orleanians behind they will be miles ahead of the other candidates.

We can't solve the major issues plaguing New Orleans until we address the structural issues in our economy and our city.
07/15/2017

We can't solve the major issues plaguing New Orleans until we address the structural issues in our economy and our city.

07/14/2017

If you want the city to succeed long term you need to focus on growing the population.
If you don't want to have $100 water bills, you need to focus on growing the population.
If you want local businesses to have customers year round, you need to focus on growing the population.
If you want flood control structures, you need something behind those levees to protect, so you need to focus on growing the population.
If you want the potholes fixed, you need to focus on economic development
If you want money to pay the police, you need to focus on economic development
If you don't want your service industry people to have to take off the month of August, you need to focus on economic development outside of tourism.
If you want better jobs and better wages, you need to focus on economic development
If you want support in your town for your charities, non-profits and other cultural institutions, you need to focus on economic development and capturing (or recapturing) corporate headquarters.
If you want to reduce crime, you have to focus on jobs.
If you want to approach affordable housing from the idea that the people in New Orleans should have enough money to take care of themselves, you have to focus on jobs.
If you want local businesses to succeed because they have a strong customer base that can afford to patronize them, you have to focus on jobs.
If you want the students of New Orleans to have an obvious reason to work hard at school, you have to focus on jobs.
If you want to end the blight of former corner stores sitting vacant and underutlized, you have fix the zoning code.
If you want to approach affordable housing by actually letting people build housing, you have to fix the zoning code.
If you want to bring in more businesses to hire New Orleanians, you have to fix the zoning code.
If you want to end City Hall micromanagement of every building in this city, you have fix the zoning code.
If you want to save the neighborhood bar and the go-cup, you have fix the zoning code.
If you want to encourage investment and entrepreneurial activity in our city, you have to fix the zoning code.
If you want to encourage music and the arts in our city, you have to fix the zoning code
The things we have to fix are huge, but the places we start to do that are obvious.

07/04/2017

If a candidate isn't talking about jobs, economic development & population growth 1st, they aren't serious about other issues

01/29/2017

It is hard to believe the city wants to institute a 3 am door closing time for our bars.
And create a new expensive crime plan.
And force access to private video cameras.
All of this is unlikely to reduce crime
And very likely to lead to expensive lawsuits the city will lose.
We should be spending the money on economic development that leads to jobs for our people and not more schemes

12/02/2013

Whenever you see a shuttered neighborhood storefront in New Orleans it is often the zoning code keeping it empty.

06/25/2013

Alive New Orleans is working to promote the constructive and creative growth of New Orleans.

• Reduce the obstacles to our growth and rejuvenation.
• Encourage the city to create an “easy button” to opening businesses in New Orleans.
• Advocate for a less restrictive zoning code that allows for creative use of properties.
• Continuously assist the city in finding ways to streamline and enforce the municipal code by discouraging narrowly geographically targeted codes.
• Be a strong voice for economic development, particularly in sectors that are underdeveloped currently and utilize the graduates of our colleges and universities.
• Suggesting policies and laws to lawmakers that help New Orleans grow. Also working with civic leaders on removing barriers to growth and the ordinances, rules, regulations and laws that act as an obstacle to change.
• Allow more Permitted uses in the zoning code, including Live Music, to help us sustain our city and grow its economic & cultural future.
• Increase the recognition that culture emerges from a city’s economy and that trying to turn the culture into the economy has the effect of distorting the culture and not providing enough of an economic lift to keep the vast majority of the citizens in New Orleans.
• Bringing awareness that increasing the population and insuring that New Orleans is central to the economy of the country will be the only way the city gets the resources to protect itself from potential natural disasters.
• Working with entrepreneurs and businesses to bring a full & complete set of retail and businesses to the city to enhance job opportunity for our citizens, sales tax revenue for our city’s needs & convenient shopping for our people. And fighting the organized opposition of those with a very narrow notion what opportunity New Orleans should provide its citizens and businesses.
• Advocating for, and eventually working to facilitate, local financing of local companies by encouraging start-up and expansion investment in New Orleans businesses.
• Encouraging New Orleanians and New Orleans businesses, who left the last couple decades in search of more opportunity and a friendlier business climate, to return to New Orleans. Alive New Orleans will strive to help the city create an environment that provides the opportunity our people have found elsewhere & a business climate that encourages growth.

04/11/2013

Can a city that puts the things of the past over the needs of the present ever build a future for itself?

02/03/2013

It's not the buildings that makes our city special. It's the people of New Orleans & the life we built, what we do & who we are that make it special.

01/18/2013

The City of New Orleans needs to look long and hard at its ability to administer and enforce permits and regulations before adding more requirements on the citizens and businesses of this city. If you require 3000 people to submit to a process that takes an hour to complete and you have two employees to process these folks the result will be anger, frustration and the loss of goodwill from the citizens city hall is supposed to serve.

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