Lower 9th Plan: Start 'From Scratch'

A consulting firm hired by the New Orleans City Council to devise a plan for the city's most storm-damaged neighborhoods will recommend rebuilding the Lower 9th Ward — considered by many "ground zero" of the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina — "from scratch."

Miami-based urban planner and housing consultant Paul Lambert, along with other urban planning groups, met with Lower 9th Ward residents and incorporated their ideas into a proposal to change the area's street pattern to create a new "town center." That idea is part of a report he is to present to residents today.

from the LA Times