Downtown Baton Rouge Wins International Award

BATON ROUGE PLANNING

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    Old South Baton Rouge

    In 2005, Plan Baton Rouge hired RKG Associates and a team of consultants to create a Strategic Neighborhood Revitalization and Economic Development Plan that identified strategies and implementation steps to generate reinvestment in the area, to strengthen and preserve the residential neighborhoods and to provide an effective guide for decision-making through community engagement.  Learn more

     

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    Plan Baton Rouge

    Plan Baton Rouge began in 1998 as an initiative of the Baton Rouge Area Foundation designed to infuse Smart Growth principles into the revitalization of downtown Baton Rouge, making it a livable, sustainable, productive regional center.  To read about the original Plan Baton Rouge, visit www.planbr.org
    After a decade of resounding implementation success, CPEX, in partnership with the DDD and City of Baton Rouge, embarked upon the ambitious Plan Baton Rouge Phase II update process in 2008.  
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STATEWIDE PLANNING

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    Louisiana Speaks

    Louisiana Speaks is a long-term planning initiative of the Louisiana Recovery Authority (LRA) that is supported with private funds provided through the LRA Support Foundation. Learn more

     

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    Louisiana Community Planning

    Center for Planning Excellence initiated the Louisiana Community Planning Program in the fall of 2006 after receiving a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Smart Growth grant, secured by Senator Mary Landrieu. Learn more

     

PLANNING IN THE NEWS

LSU Students Paint for MLK event
Over 125 volunteers helped two OSBR residences and one business receive a fresh coat of paint as part of the OSBR Home Rehabilitation Grant program and OSBR Commercial Façade Improvement Grant program…

Request for Proposals
CPEX is currently circulating RFPs for the following two projects: Lafayette Nodal Development Plan and Model Regulations for Coastal and Riverine Development in Louisiana.…

Great Places in Louisiana Awards Program
Nominate your favorite great Louisiana place!…

9th Annual New Partners for Smart Growth
CPEX Announces the Elected Official Scholarship Recipients for the 9th Annual New Partners for Smart Growth Conference

2009 Smart Growth Summit Recap
Check out speaker presentations and audio from 2009 Smart Growth Summit Sessions…

UPCOMING EVENTS

  • CNU 2010 Charter Awards Entries Due
  • Submit your work for Urbanism's most distinguished award. cnu.org/awards

  • EBR Parish Master Plan Kick-Off Meeting
  • January 26, 2010 - 5:30pm - 7:30pm Louisiana State Museum
    660 North Fourth Street
    Baton Rouge, Louisiana futurebr.com

  • 9th Annual New Partners for Smart Growth
  • February 4 - 6, 2010
    Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Seattle http://www.newpartners.org/

PARTNERS

Baton Rouge Area Foundation

Louisiana Municipal Association

Louisiana Recovery Authority

Northshore Community Foundation

The Downtown Development District

East Baton Rouge Redevelopment Authority

Louisiana Office of Community Development

NeighborWorks America

Ford Foundation

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