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January 2025

Our neighbors Yardbirds Farm at 10801 River Rd. are hosting a public Neighborhood Participation Meeting:

Neighborhood Participation Meeting (NPP)

Date: January 29, 2025

Time: 4pm

Location: River Queen Greens Barn (10801 River Rd.)

They would like to build a chicken brooding and processing facility there. The NPP meeting is required by the City of New Orleans as the requested business is a conditional use in the Rural Residential Estate (RRE) zoning of that property. If you are interested or concerned, please attend. A map is included with excerpts from a letter from Yardbirds Farm below. This is the former Cow Pasture on River Road.

For more details see the letter below from Yardbirds and click on the following link to review more information abo about the NPP process in our most recent newsletter.

Barn Design & Map

Letter from Yardbirds:

Dear Neighbor,

Yardbirds Farm, LLC would like to construct a barn at 10801 River Rd. The barn will consist of two 40 ft. shipping containers, raised, with a roof constructed over both of them. There will be a wooden patio connecting the two containers.

One part of the barn is intended for raising chicks to prepare them for pasture. The other part of the barn is intended for the processing of birds. The building will consist of one floor and will total 240 square feet.

10801 River Rd. is located in an RRE Rural Residential Estate District, where the processing of food or other products of any plants or livestock raised on an agricultural use property requires the approval of a conditional use permit. This can be found in Article 20, Section 20.3.C.3 in the New Orleans Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance. Yardbirds Farm, LLC’s Conditional Use Permit application must be heard by the City Planning Commission and the City Council, and we are required to complete the NPP meeting before submitting our application to the City Planning Commission for review.

If we receive approval, we plan to start the construction within a month of the approval and estimate the work should take about two months. Because you are a nearby neighbor, I am inviting you to an NPP meeting where you can learn more about what we propose, and present questions or concerns. This letter is being delivered through U.S. Mail or by email. I’ve enclosed my site plans to give you a better idea of what we plan to do. At the meeting, I will provide a sign-in sheet to obtain email

addresses, so that I can keep you updated if there are any changes to the plans.

If you are unable to attend and would like to receive information from the meeting, or have any additional questions or comments, please feel free to contact me. I hope to see you at the meeting on January 29.

Sincerely,

Kelly Cahill - owner/operator

Yardbirds Farm, LLC

PO BOX 740464

New Orleans, LA 70174

kelly@yardbirds-farm.com

(434) 466-5502

JULY 2024

LOWER COAST ALGIERS PUBLIC MEETING

Tuesday, July 30

6 p.m.

Chua Bo De Buddhist Temple

(Hwy. 406 near the traffic circle)

Agenda:

Interim Zoning District (IZD)
Future Land Use Map (FLUM)
Infrastructure Update
Community Input
Membership

Thank you to everyone who came to the community meeting on July 30. Despite the pouring rain, we had a great turnout. If you missed the meeting at the Buddhist Temple, you can click on the link below to read the minutes. We hope to see you the next time and if you have any input after reading the minutes, don't hesitate to get in touch.

MINUTES

Links to land use and zoning documents

District C Future Land Use Plan (FLUM) requests (includes Lower Coast Algiers, Algiers, Treme, and French Quarter.

Link to Master Plan FLUMS and Zoning a brief education.

City Planning Commission explaining the Master Plan, and the revision process. It includes the list of public meetings along with outlining the review process.

City of NOLA Online tools (automatic notices etc.) are available on the RESOURCES tab.

Link