Aggressive Growth Management For New Orleans Suburb

29 November 2003 - 7:00am

How does St. Tammany radically redefine the way growth occurs to save the parish from its own success?

"St. Tammany provides the classic caseof a suburb falling victim to its own success. It has experienced rapid growth in part because of the natural beauty and quality of life it offers — but those very attributes are eroding as a result of rapid growth. It has become a cliché on the north shore that each new arrival wants to close the doorbehind him." In this report, the Bureau of Government Research, a private nonprofit research organization, examines St. Tammany Parish's vision for the future and the obstacles to bringing that vision to fruition. It discusses options for removing those obstacles and radically redefining the way growth occurs... The Bureau of Governmental Research is a "private, nonprofit, independent research organization dedicatedto informed public policy making and the effective use of public resources for the improvement of governmentin the Greater New Orleans metropolitan area." [Editor's note: The link below is to a PDF document.]

Source: Bureau Of Governmental Research, November 25, 2003
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