Building Our Future:
Reconnecting Communities
Citywide Conversation - October 4th, 2022
Watch: Reconnecting Communities - Citywide Conversation
Download the slideshow from CBNO’s October 4, 2022 event here
Reconnecting Communities is a first-of-its-kind program within the Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act (also known as IIJA or the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law or BIL). Its purpose is to reconnect low-income and minority communities cut off from opportunities and healthy environments by previously built infrastructure.
Featured presenters -
Dan Jatres
Infrastructure Projects Administrator
Office of Resilience & Sustainability
City of New Orleans
Executive Director
Amy Stelly
Claiborne Avenue Alliance Design Studio
Sage Michael
New Orleans Climate Justice Organizer
Healthy Gulf
This discussion & information session features project leaders and public officials representing residents of the Claiborne Corridor, New Orleans East, and the City of New Orleans.
There will be breakout groups in which attendees can share how man-made divides impact our communites, and how Reconnecting Communities might help us create solutions.
The goals of this event are to leave you with a better understanding of -
The opportunities historic federal funding is currently providing New Orleans
Key transportation barriers in New Orleans
What it takes to move a project from idea to reality
How to participate in next steps with CBNO and each of the featured projects
Underneath the Claiborne Overpass. Its construction in the 1960’s forever changed the historic Tremé community. Despite its destructive impact on nearby residents and businesses, it continues to be a place of community gathering.
How to respond to it’s massive presence has been a community concern for decades. Today, residents and public officials are in position to finally answer that question.
Maybe it’s a railroad or a rail yard.
A highway or a major roadway.
If it’s infrastructure that’s a barrier to your neighborhood or community,
Making it hard to get where you need to go, to do what you need to do,
If it’s a health or safety concern …
Is there infrastructure in your neighborhood that creates a divide or barrier for residents?
Committee for a Better New Orleans is partnering with ISeeChange & Healthy Gulf to document residents’ infrastructure needs, to make sure your perspective can help local leaders prioritize where and how to build a more equitable and sustainable future.
Railroads along Press St dividing the Marigny & Bywater neighborhoods
Canal along Morrison Rd in New Orleans East