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The Regional Planning Commission for Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard and St. Tammany Parishes, is a 26-member board of local elected officials and citizen members, appointed to represent you on regional issues. This board is supported by a staff of 22 professionals with broad experience, and doctorates or masters degrees, in a variety of areas including urban and regional planning, community development, economics, engineering, government, history, law, landscape architecture, political science, sustainable development, transportation, geography and other disciplines.

Cresent City Connection presentation given on March 12, 2013 at the Transportation Policy Committee Meetingby Rhett Desselle of DOTD

Mr. Rhett Desselle, Assistance Secretary, Office of Operations, LADOTD presented the current status of the Cresent City Connection funding based on the recent Judicial ruling on March 5th, 2013 nullifying the November 2012 election results.

Designing Streets for Pedestrian & Bicyclists Workshop

This three-day professional development workshop is designed to provide traffic engineers, planners and other transportation professionals, good design principles of pedestrian and bicycle facilities such as intersection design, signalization, and dedicated bicycle lanes. The workshop will be held on Wednesday, April 17 through Friday, April 19, 2013 from 8:00am-4:30pm at the Regional Transportation Management Center, 10 Veterans Memorial Blvd, New Orleans. Click link above for more details and registration.

2012 Delta Regional Authority (DRA) State Economic Development Assistance Program Investments in the New Orleans Region

This year the greater New Orleans region received two investments through the State Econmomic Development Assistance Program (SEDAP). Follow the link above to find out more about these investments..:

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CARPOOL MATCHING SERVICE

The RPC is excited to announce the launch of it's new ride-matching service, GreenRide. This service is completely free to anyone travelling in the New Orleans metro region. To learn more about how you can use this service to save money, have an easier commute, and help the environment, click here.


Census

CENSUS 2010: Download GIS files

(PL-171-redistricting data)

Census 2010 parish, tract, block group and block geographies joined with total population, population by race, and housing occupancy data.  These files are formatted as shapefiles for use in GIS software (download is a zipped file).    A methodology paper describing the RPC process of downloading and formatting categorical names and of summarizing race data is available with each download. 
For a quick map view demonstrating demographic changes between 2000 and 2010 please click on the hyperlink below and zoom into your specific area of interest:

NY Times: Mapping the 2010 U.S. Census


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