CPC hearing—ZD 014-26—2400 Napoleon
Live Entertainment Conditional Use
Meeting Location: City Council Chambers
Meeting Date/time: Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2025, 1:30 p.m.
Agenda
4. Zoning Docket 014-26
Applicant: 2400 Napoleon Avenue, LLC
Request: Amendment to Ordinance No. 29,359 MCS (Zoning Docket 084/22, which granted a conditional use to permit a reception facility over 10,000 square feet in an HU-MU Historic Urban Neighborhood Mixed-Use District) to permit a Planned Development authorizing a Live Performance Venue
Property description: Square 584, Lot 1A-3, in the Sixth Municipal District, bounded by La Salle Street, Freret Street, Jena Street, and Napoleon Avenue
Address(es): 2400 Napoleon Avenue
Letter of public comment to CPC from hnon.org:
To the CPC:
I am writing to oppose the Live Entertainment CU requested via ZD 014-26.
Neighbors are already negatively affected by the noise generated by the entertainment/music currently permitted for the reception hall/event venue at 2400 Napoleon.
Additional issues are a lackadaisical attitude towards COOs/TCOs (the TCO expired on 11/1/25 and has not been renewed); the obstruction of Napoleon Avenue by tour buses and Uber and Lyft vehicles; and increased parking congestion in neighborhood streets.
Once again, let’s invoke that part of the CZO that concerns the impact on the neighborhood of a given conditional use, as set forth at CZO Art. 4.3.A:
Within each zoning district, the use of land and structures are substantially uniform. However there are certain uses that, because of their unique characteristics, cannot be properly classified in certain districts without consideration, in each case, of the impact of those uses upon neighboring land and of the public need for the particular use at the particular location.
In fact, there is no public need at all for the particular Live Entertainment use at 2400 Napoleon.
The conditional use is “needed” only by the private developers and their new corporate partners, John Georges, William Kearney, IV, and Dickie Brennan & Co.:
https://www.nola.com/news/business/local-investors-join-nola-uptown-church-event-space-project/article_643bae70-b25a-4d14-bd16-0d026c1f2c37.htmlI’m therefore asking you to take the radical step of siding with neighbors in this instance.
Let the City Council finally decide for or against.
If New Orleanians had known that the city would be given over to developers post-Katrina, fewer of them would have returned to rebuild their homes and neighborhoods.
Thanks and best regards,
Susan Johnson
Historic N.O. Neighborhoods, LLC
2822 Lepage Street
New Orleans, La. 70119
www.hnon.org