78/92 - 122/92
Scope and Contents
Each zoning docket is filed in a separate folder. Contents of the folders vary over the years, but they generally include a copy of the Planning Commission's report and recommendation (except for the 1973-1987 period, when reports and recommendations were discarded because they duplicated the City Planning Commission's version of the records) and the Council's decision on the matter (in the more recent dockets, in the form of the motion and/or ordinance adopted by the Council).
Individual dockets may also include all or some of the following:
- public notices
- transmittal letters
- corresspondence and/or petitions from supporters/opponents of the zoning matter
- lists of neighboring property owners
- maps
- plans
- photographs
Prior to 1954 the records for each zoning docket were filed with the Official Proceedings of the Council. A small group of dockets from that period are filed separately, recorded as the Early Zoning Dockets series. Beginning in 1954 the records are filed in order by their docket numbers (e.g., #14/55 being the 14th docket filed in the year 1955). In the earlier years, at least, the Clerk of Council also assigned a petition number to each record received from the Planning Commission, but filed the dockets according to the Commission's designations.
The Archives has not retained copies of approved site plans produced in the zoning process; those documents were filed with the Register of Conveyances and are retained in that office. Some individual dockets are missing from the main body of records and are listed in separate series of "Stray" zoning dockets, 1965-1996. Many of these "stray" dockets are administrative amendments to previously approved dockets (these are listed with the year in which the amendment was approved), others were withdrawn from consideration, and others may simply not have been refiled after being used. Some pre-1954 dockets may also be missing from the Official Proceedings, but we have made no effort to identify them individually.
Dates
- Creation: 1942-2007
Creator
- From the Collection: New Orleans (La.) City Council (Organization)
- From the Collection: Clerk of the City Council (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Available to registered researchers by appointment. Request by box and zoning docket number.
Extent
From the Series: 78 Cubic Feet (78 boxes)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the City Archives Repository
City Archives & Special Collections
219 Loyola Avenue
New Orleans LA 70112
504-596-2610
archivist@nolalibrary.org