New Orleans Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance

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3.3.B Mailed Notice

1.  Mailed notice is required for all public hearings required by this ordinance, excluding those for zoning text amendments and for zoning amendments initiated by the City Council covering multiple squares.

2.  Mailed notice for public hearings held by the City Planning Commission shall be sent by regular mail at least fifteen (15) days before the public hearing to the following individuals and entities. Mailed notice for public hearings held by the Board of Zoning Adjustments shall be sent by regular mail at least fifteen (15) days before the public hearing to the following individuals and entities.

a.  The owner of record of the property, as indicated in the records of the Orleans Parish Assessor’s Office, and all persons expressly authorized in writing by the owner to file the application.

b. The owners of record of all properties, as indicated in the records of the Orleans Parish Assessor’s Office, located within three hundred (300) feet of the property lines of the subject property. However, for public hearings involving a site of twenty-five thousand (25,000) square feet or more in area or a development of twenty-five thousand (25,000) square feet or more in floor area, such notice shall be expanded to all properties within six-hundred (600) feet of the property lines of the subject property.

c. The occupants of all properties indicated in items i and ii above, wherever the mailing address of the property owner as indicated in the records of the Orleans Parish Assessor is different from the address of the property.

d.  Any neighborhood association with boundaries within which any portion of the subject property is located. For the purposes of this section, the boundaries of a neighborhood association shall be as provided on its registration form in the office of the City Planning Commission.

3.  The notice shall set forth the name of the applicant, the date, time, place, and purpose of the hearing, and identification of the subject property.

Ord. No. 29,126, ยง3, Aug. 12, 2022, Zoning Docket 16/22