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.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 17:11:53 +0000
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