Project Support Policy

The Downtown Development District of New Orleans (DDD) is often asked to support before public bodies project proposals that involve zoning changing and waivers, including height and floor area ratio (FAR) variances and similar regulations imposed on both historic structures and new construction. The DDD is also often asked to support requests for publicly assisted financing such as Tax Increment Financing (TIF) districts, Restoration Tax Abatement extensions and to provide support letters for inclusion in applications to State and local agencies for allocations of low income housing and other tax credit programs.

To establish a fair and transparent system, the following policy, support criteria and application procedures have been drafted to provide guidance to the DDD staff as it considers both routine, non controversial requests and for the consideration of more complex proposals involving zoning waivers and publicly assisted financing.

The DDD Project Support Policy, Procedure and Application are available as a .pdf file below.

DDD Project Support Policy.pdf