This Overlay provides new zoning intended to guide the future growth of the area surrounding
the intersection of West New Orleans Street (101st) and South Elm Place, often described as "New Orleans Square." This Overlay was prepared to encourage redevelopment in and around the existing shopping centers in the area, along with other nearby underutilized land. The Code also responds to the proposed landscape and intersection improvement project (including new landscaping and pedestrian improvements) at New Orleans Street and Elm Place.

This Overlay is intended to foster new residential and mixed-use development with more predictable results and a higher-quality public realm by prescribing the physical form of buildings and addressing the relationship between building facades and the public realm, the form and mass of buildings in relation to one another, and the scale and types of streets and blocks. This Overlay has been written with specific application to the New Orleans Square District in mind; however, these zoning districts may be suitable elsewhere in the city.

New Orleans Square Overlay District (PDF Download)