Fort Worth Planner Tapped To Lead New Orleans Planning Advisory Team

Fort Worth City planner Fernando Costa has been tapped to lead an APA-formed team of five planners in advising New Orleans' city staff as they regroup after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.

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September 29, 2005, 10:00 AM PDT

By Chris Steins @planetizen

"The American Planning Association is assembling the team under contract with the Federal Emergency Management Agency... Yolanda Winnier-Rodriguez, executive director of the New Orleans Planning Commission, said her department has a skeleton crew at a command center at the New Orleans Hyatt Hotel.

A team of five city planners has been named to help plan the rebuilding of New Orleans:

Fernando Costa, city planning director of Fort Worth.

Bob Lurcot, former planning director of Pittsburgh.

Chandra Foreman, an urban planner from Tampa, Fla.

Rich Roths of the URS Corp.

Grover Mouton, who teaches urban design at the Tulane University School of Architecture in New Orleans."

FULL STORY: City planner to aid New Orleans

Thursday, September 29, 2005 in Star-Telegram

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