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© 2010 Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company

Federal City, New Orleans, LouisianaINTRODUCTIONThe Theory ...........................................................................................A.1Traditional Neighborhood Development Principles ............................A.3Project Introduction .............................................................................A.5

MASTER PLANExisting Regional Aerial ......................................................................B.1Scale Comparison Diagram .................................................................B.2Existing Site Conditions Aerial ............................................................B.3Existing Site Conditions Plan ..............................................................B.4Proposed Master Plan ..........................................................................B.5Aerial Illustration Secure Campus & Town Center .............................B.6Aerial Illustration School Campus .......................................................B.7Secure Campus and Town Square ........................................................B.8Aerial 3D Illustrations ..........................................................................B.9Existing Street Network Diagram ......................................................B.10Proposed Street Network Diagram ....................................................B.11Proposed Transit Shed Diagram.........................................................B.12Proposed Pedestrian Shed Diagram ...................................................B.13Civic Open Space Diagram ................................................................B.14Building Type Diagram ......................................................................B.15Secured Area Diagram .......................................................................B.16Parking Shed Diagram .......................................................................B.17Storm water Diagram .........................................................................B.18Conservation Centers Diagram ..........................................................B.19Local Agriculture Diagram ................................................................B.20Power Generation Diagram ................................................................B.21Heating & Cooling Diagram ..............................................................B.22Parking Shed 2 Analysis ....................................................................B.25Parking Shed 3 Analysis ....................................................................B.27Parking Shed 4 Analysis ....................................................................B.29

Parking Shed 5 Analysis ....................................................................B.31Parking Shed 6 Analysis ....................................................................B.33School Campus Diagram ...................................................................B.35Parking Shed 7 Analysis ....................................................................B.37Regulating Plan ..................................................................................B.39

COMPETITION PLANIllustrative Master Plan ........................................................................C.1Diagrams ..............................................................................................C.2Illustrations ..........................................................................................C.3

TABLE OF CONTENTS


Federal City, New Orleans, Louisiana

INTRODUCTION

© 2010 Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company Introduction

THE THEORY

The neighborhood can aggregate with other neighbor-hoods to form cities and towns, while a single Neigh-borhood, isolated in the landscape, is a village.

The nomenclature may vary, but there is a general agreement regarding the composition of the neigh-borhood. The Neighborhood Unit of the 1929 New York Regional Plan, the Quartier identified by Leon Krier, the Traditional Neighborhood Development (TND), and the Transit Orientated Development (TOD) all share similar attributes:

The neighborhood has a center and an edge. The combination of a focus and a limit contribute to the social identity of the community. Both are important, but the center is essential. It is usually a public space, which may be a square, a green, or an important street intersection. It is located near the geographic center of the urbanized area unless compelled by a geograph-ic circumstance to be elsewhere. Eccentric locations may be justified by a shoreline, a transportation cor-ridor, or a promontory creating a view.

The center is the locus of the civic buildings. Commer-cial buildings such as shops and workplaces are usually associated with the center of the village. However, in the aggregations of neighborhoods which create towns and cities, commercial buildings are often at the edge, where they can intensify by combining with those of other neighborhoods.

The edge of a neighborhood varies in character. In vil-lages, the edge is usually defined by land reserved for cultivation or conservation in a natural state. In urban

areas, the neighborhood edge is often defined by bou-levards or parkways.

The neighborhood has a balanced mix of activities: shopping, work, schooling, recreation, and dwelling of all types. This arrangement is particularly useful for those young, old, and low-income residents unable to depend on the automobile for mobility. The housing stock of the neighborhood serves a range of incomes. Affordable housing types include backyard cottages, apartments above shops, and rowhouses. There should also be expensive houses to attract those most able to contribute time and wealth to civic causes.

The optimal size of a neighborhood is a quarter-mile from center to edge. This distance is the equivalent of a five-minute walk at an easy pace. The limited area gathers the residents within walking distance of many daily needs, including transit, which is ideally placed at a central node in conjunction with convenience retail.

The location of a transit stop within walking distance of a predictable population substantially increases the likelihood of its use. Transit-oriented neighborhoods create a regional network of villages, towns, and cities accessible to a population without singular reliance on cars. Such an aggregation can provide major cultural and social institutions, a variety of shopping, and the kind of broad job base that can only be supported by the substantial population of many neighborhoods.

Neighborhood streets of varying types are detailed to provide equitability for the pedestrian, the bicycle, and the automobile. The concurrent provision of sidewalks, street trees, and on-street parking slows the automobile and increases pedestrian activity, en-couraging the casual meetings that form the bonds of community. Neighborhood streets are laid out to create efficient blocks for building sites and to shorten

FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTS OF URBANISM THE NEIGHBORHOOD

The fundamental elements of traditional ur-banism are the neighborhood, the district, and the corridor.

Neighborhoods are urbanized areas having a balanced range of human activity. Districts are urbanized areas organized around a predomi-nant activity. Corridors are linear systems of transportation or green space, which connect or isolate the neighborhoods and districts.

Neighborhoods, districts, and corridors are complex, inter-related urban elements. Subur-bia, in contrast, is the result of simplified “zon-ing” concepts that segregate activities into sin-gle use, segregated enclaves. It is composed of “residential subdivisions separated by each income level,” “shopping centers,” “office parks,” and “open space.”

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Federal City, New Orleans, LouisianaIntroduction

THE THEORY

pedestrian routes. A fine network of streets and roads provides multiple routes that diffuse traffic. This pat-tern keeps the local traffic away from the long-range corridors.

The neighborhood gives priority to the creation of public space and to the appropriate location of civic buildings. Private buildings form a disciplined edge de-lineating the public spaces and the private block interi-or. Useful public spaces such as formal squares, infor-mal parks, and small playgrounds provide places for gathering and recreation. Honorific sites are reserved for public buildings which reinforce the civic spirit of the community and provide places of assembly for educational, social, cultural, and religious activities.

The district is an urbanized area that is functionally specialized.

Typical examples are theater districts, capitol areas, and college and sports campuses. Other districts ac-commodate large scale transportation or manufactur-ing uses, such as airports, container terminals, and re-fineries. Although districts preclude the full range of activities of a neighborhood, they are not always the single-activity zones of suburbia. A district allows mul-tiple activities to support its primary identity.

The structure of the district parallels that of its neigh-borhood: an identifiable focus encourages orientation and identity, and clear boundaries facilitate the forma-tion of special taxing or management organizations. Like the neighborhood, attention to the character of the public space reinforces the community of recur-rent users, which encourages the pedestrian, supports transit viability, and ensures security. Districts benefit from transit systems, and should be located within a regional network.

The corridor is the connector or the isolator of neigh-borhoods and districts.

Corridors are composed of natural and technical com-ponents ranging from wildlife trails to rail lines. The corridor is not the haphazard residual “open space” buffering the enclaves of suburbia, but a proactive civ-ic element characterized by its continuity. It is defined by the boundaries of neighborhoods and districts and provides entry to them.

The trajectory of a transportation corridor is deter-mined by its intensity. Highways and heavy rail cor-ridors should remain tangent to towns and cities and enter only the industrial districts. Light rail corridors and buses may be incorporated into the boulevards at the edges of neighborhoods. As such, they are de-tailed for pedestrian use and accommodate building sites. Bus corridors may pass into neighborhood cen-ters on small conventional streets.

Green corridors or greenways can be formed by the systematic accretion of recreational open spaces, such as parks, playing fields, schoolyards, and golf courses. These continuous natural spaces should gradually flow to the rural edges connecting the regional ecosystem. The transportation lines may be located within contin-uous parkways combining both types of corridor and providing long-distance walking and biking trails.

THE DISTRICT THE CORRIDOR

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TRADITIONAL NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT PRINCIPLES

There are two patterns of urbanism in North America: the Traditional Neighborhood, which was the model from the first settlements to World War II, and Sub-urban Sprawl, which has been the model since then. They are similar in their initial capacity to accommo-date people and their activities; the principal differ-ence is that Suburban Sprawl contains environmental, social, and economic deficiencies inevitably choking sustained growth. The Traditional Neighborhood has many physical, social and economic attributes that do not exist in suburbia.

The Neighborhood is a comprehensive planning in-crement: when clustered with others, it becomes a town; when standing free in the landscape, it becomes a village. The Neighborhood varies in population and density to accommodate localized conditions. The Traditional Neighborhood Has Several Positive Conse-quences:

By bringing most of the activities of daily living into walking distance, everyone (especially the elderly and the young) gains independence of movement.

By reducing the number and length of automobile trips, traffic congestion is minimized, the expenses of road construction are limited, and air pollution is reduced.

By providing walkable streets and squares of com-fortable scale with defined spatial quality, neighbors can come to know each other and to watch over their collective security.

By providing appropriate building concentrations at easy walking distances from bus stops, public transit becomes a viable alternative to the automobile.

By providing a full range of housing types and work places, age and economic classes are integrated and the bonds of an authentic community are formed. Even affordable housing occurs naturally and in a highly integrated manner. The affordable housing looks like the market-rate housing, using similar exte-rior materials, windows, and building forms. Afford-able housing is not segregated and is never clustered in large numbers. Housing can be provided above re-tail establishments. This type of dwelling can be pro-vided for the cost of construction alone, because the cost of land can be assigned to the retail component of the building.

By providing suitable civic buildings and spaces, dem-ocratic initiatives are encouraged and the balanced evolution of society is facilitated.

The social and environmental benefits of a New Urban-ist community, or Traditional Neighborhood Develop-ment (TND) results from certain physical and organi-zational characteristics. An authentic Neighborhood includes most of the following:

1 The development should preserve sensitive natu-ral and cultural areas as permanent open space;

2 The basic increment of development should be the walkable, diverse pedestrian shed, forming a neighborhood;

3 Each neighborhood should have a discernible center to serve as a community gathering place. This center would also contain a transit stop;

4 The pedestrian shed should be a five or ten-min-ute walk to the neighborhood center so pedes-trians may have access to transit. This distance averages one-quarter of a mile;

5 There should be sufficiently varied shops in prox-imity to the neighborhood to satisfy ordinary dai-ly household needs. A convenience store is the most important among them;

6 The neighborhood should incorporate a variety of places to work, including those that enables work at the dwelling;

7 Each neighborhood should incorporate a variety of dwelling types, so younger and older persons, single households and families may be housed;

8 Each dwelling should be permitted to have an an-cillary unit for use as a rental apartment;

9 An elementary school should be available, or a site reserved, within one mile of most dwellings;

10 Small playgrounds should be quite near every dwelling, no more that one-eighth of a mile;

11 Thoroughfares within the neighborhood be a net-work, connecting wherever possible to adjacent thoroughfares in order to provide a variety of itin-eraries and disperse traffic;

12 Thoroughfares should be designed to slow traffic, creating an environment appropriate for pedes-trians and bicyclists as well as automobiles;

13 Building frontages should collectively support pe-destrian streetscapes and mask most parking lot.

14 Certain prominent sites should be reserved for civic buildings. Buildings for meeting, education, religion or culture should be located at the ter-mination of street vistas or at the Neighborhood center.

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Federal City, New Orleans, LouisianaIntroduction

TRADITIONAL NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT PRINCIPLES

The Transect, in its origins (Von Humboldt 1790), is a geographical cross-section of a region used to reveal a sequence of environments. Originally, it was used to analyze natural ecologies, showing varying charac-teristics through different zones such as shores, wet-lands, plains and uplands. Modernist transportation’s suppression of the natural Transect zoning has cata-lyzed the current need to re-represent it as a viable al-ternative theory. A common rural to urban continuum correlation provides the basis of the various special-ized components for a new system of zoning, one that creates complex, contextually resonant natural and human environments. In Transect planning, this range of environments is the basis for organizing the compo-nents of the built world: building, lot, land use, street, and all other physical elements of the human habitat.

One of transect planning’s key objectives is the cre-ation of immersive environments. Successful immer-sive environments are based on the selection and ar-rangement of all the components that contribute to a particular type of environment. Each environment, or Transect Zone, is comprised of elements that sup-port and intensify its locational character. Through the Transect, planners are able to specify different urban contexts that have the function and intensity appro-priate to their locations. For instance, a farmhouse would not contribute to the immersive quality of an urban core, whereas a high-rise apartment building would. Wide streets and open swales find a place on the Transect in more rural areas while narrow streets and curbs are appropriate for urban areas. Based on local practices, most elements can be locally calibrat-ed to contribute to the regional and vernacular charac-ter of a given environment.

The continuum of the Transect, when subdivided, lends itself to the creation of zoning categories. Six have been identified. These Transect zones (T-zones) display more-or-less fixed identifiable characteristics, from the most rural and natural environment (T-1) to the most urban environment (T-6). The standards specified by the zoning categories overlap, reflecting the successional eco-zones of natural and human com-munities.

The Transect is evident in two ways: it exists in place and it evolves over time. Yet, the evolution of com-munities over time is the unforeseen element in urban-ism. A hamlet may evolve into a village and then into a town; its T-zones increasing in density and intensity over a period of many years. The initial organization of the Transect supports this growth.

The Transect Zones impose the discipline of the distri-bution of densities and building types throughout the plan. They also create a high degree of flexibility as several building types can be applied in every Transect Zone. The Regulating Plan also shows the form and lo-cation of public open spaces.

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PROJECT INTRODUCTION

Federal City offers a National Model for the future con-figuration and operation of small to mid-sized Depart-ment of Defense (DOD) installations. The State of Loui-siana has shown a strong commitment by providing a portion of the capital funding required to construct new facilities at Federal City, and the New Market Tax Credits provides tax incentives for developments in the region. It is anticipated that DOD and civilian federal agencies, as well as the contractors and suppliers who support them, will be housed at Federal City. All ten-ants will share Federal City’s amenities and gain the ad-vantages of the force protection features that will be provided. Federal City is intended to offer tenants an outstanding quality of life and provide vital economic development and job creation opportunities for the New Orleans community. Federal City will create en-ergizing synergies with additional anticipated private sector development while incorporating the latest in sustainable design, aesthetics, energy efficiency, and design for enhanced hurricane and flood protection. Federal City also provides a means for community re-covery and progress in New Orleans and throughout the Gulf Coast.

The goal of Federal City is to create state-of-the-art facilities that will attract thousands of federal and pri-vate sector workers during the next fifteen years. The construction of new facilities at Federal City will pro-vide its tenants with energy and maintenance efficient facilities and the latest hurricane and flood protection factors and standards. Under this concept, the State of Louisiana has committed to contribute to the capital costs of this installation in return for the economic and social benefits of retaining and expanding the number of workers in the DOD, Federal, and “spin off” civilian organizations that would occupy the Federal City.

The installation will provide different levels of security

inside its boundaries so that both high-level military and lower-level federal or civilian tenant requirements for protection and customer access can be accommodat-ed. With sensitive analysis of needs and stringent and smart “zone based” master planning, Federal City will provide a highly desirable place to live, work and train, enhancing the quality of life for our military personnel and civilian employees. With more than just DOD ten-ants on the base, Federal City will include support func-tions on the installation that are normally provided or managed by DOD assets. Support functions include provision of single person housing, child care center, food services, athletic and recreational facilities, se-curity, etc. The concept also envisions establishing an aesthetically attractive, campus type environment on the installation that makes it a very desirable place to work. The location of the base offers spectacular views of the Mississippi River that will be exploited.

The 2005 Defense Base Closure and Realignment Com-mission (BRAC) law requires that the Marine Corps units now located at Naval Support Activity (NSA) New Orleans (East Bank) and the people at the Marine Corps Support Activity, Kansas City, Missouri relocate to Federal City at NSA New Orleans (West Bank). The Department of the Navy (DON) will relocate these Ma-rine Corps activities to Federal City by September 15th 2011.

The New Orleans Federal Alliance (NOFA) welcomes the realigning Marine Corps units as the “anchor ten-ants” for the initial phase of Federal City. As suggested by the State and the City of New Orleans to the BRAC Commission, other tenants may include other Federal agencies, and Federal contractors or suppliers. NOFA is currently working in conjunction with its Master De-veloper, HRI/ECC, to solicit as many of these potential tenants as possible for Federal City.

NOFA will work closely with HRI/ECC to ensure the de-velopment scenario and land uses achieve the desired outcome of a sustainable military/federal installation together with other private development that creates jobs and promotes local economic development. To achieve this vision, NOFA’s development partner, HRI/ECC, had the unique opportunity to shape not only the terms of the transaction between NOFA and DON, but the property interest to be conveyed as well as the fi-nal scope of the development. The entire project site was formerly part of the DON’s land ownership on the West Bank acquired in 1849.

The acreage at Federal City provides a tremendous de-velopment opportunity in a highly-favorable location. The recovery of New Orleans is accelerating and is be-ginning to achieve beneficial results. In addition to the full support of the State and the City of New Orleans, Federal City enjoys the bipartisan sponsorship and ex-pressed support of the Louisiana congressional del-egation. As mentioned, NOFA has been energetically engaged in identifying potential Federal City tenants in addition to the Marine Corps units directed to Federal City by the BRAC law and prospects for additional ten-ants are very promising. NOFA and HRI/ECC will con-tinue these efforts.

Information courtesy the official project website, http://www.no-lafederalcity.com

FEDERAL CITY

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MASTER PLAN

© 2010 Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company Master Plan

EXISTING REGIONAL AERIAL

French Quarter

Central Business District

MarignyBywater

Naval Support Facility

Holy Cross

AlgiersFerry

FEDERAL CITY

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Federal City, New Orleans, LouisianaMaster Plan

SCALE COMPARISON DIAGRAM

French Quarter

Central Business District

Algiers Point

FEDERAL CITY

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EXISTING SITE CONDITIONS AERIAL

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EXISTING SITE CONDITIONS PLAN

Existing BuildingsIndustrial UsesOpen Spaces

The existing Federal City site consists of scattered build-ings of various time periods, character, and quality. This drawing illustrates an abstrac-tion of the existing state of the site including an adjacent under-utilized shipping yard, the campuses of Delgado Community College, O. Perry Walker High School, and Har-riet Tubman Charter Elemen-tary School, all of which have been integrated into the de-sign proposal.

Behrman Park is shown in context as its facilities may be utilized by Delgado, Tubman, O Pperry Walker and the com-munity as a whole.

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PROPOSED MASTER PLAN

Existing BuildingsNew BuildingsOpen Spaces

The master plan proposal fo-cuses upon weaving together the street grids of adjacent neighborhoods and provid-ing a mix of uses, density, and services within a walk-able environment. Blocks ori-ent to the river, reconnecting neighborhoods to the south. In addition to the general ur-ban structure, the Federal City plan integrates sustain-able design techniques such as green infrastructure in the form of small roads (less im-pervious surface), local storm-water management, wind and solar energy generation, per-vious paving, district cooling, and the transportation advan-tages of living in a dense envi-ronment that provides work-place, homes, professional services, and other daily needs within a walking distance of each other. The master plan is further detailed throughout this document.

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AERIAL ILLUSTRATION SECURE CAMPUS & TOWN CENTER

Federal City extends the existing, open street network of adjacent neighborhoods and relates to existing housing by gradually scaling up in density along the transect towards the Town Center. The secure federal compound is located in a campus-type district at the western edge of the site.

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AERIAL ILLUSTRATION SCHOOL CAMPUS

The formerly separated campuses of Delgado, O. Perry Walker and Harriet Tubman are grouped in a second district, open to the neighborhood street network, where they may share resources and educational synergies.

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SECURE CAMPUS AND TOWN SQUARE

The secure compound district connects directly to the main street of Federal City where parking garages serving the district encourage employees to use local retail and services, bringing life to the main street. The direct pedestrian connection also encourages the use of local restaurants during lunch time while reducing unnecessary driving. This illustration also indicates solar and green roofs of the parking garages and urban buildings, elements of the sustainable infrastructure.

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AERIAL 3D ILLUSTRATIONS

Existing Conditions looking North-East

Town Center looking West towards the secure compound district

Proposed Plan looking North-East

School Campus looking North-West along the greens of O. Perry Walker, Delgado and Harriet Tubman

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EXISTING STREET NETWORK DIAGRAM

Two major barriers to connec-tivity exist within the subject site. The existing street net-work extending East from and West into Algiers Point is cur-rently clipped by the existing Navy secured perimeter, forc-ing all traffic to General Meyer and disconnecting many of the surrounding neighbor-hoods from each other. The result is a significant increase of traffic on General Meyer and disconnection of neigh-bors to the South with the river. Additionally the ship-ping yard to the West serves as a barrier to the Tunisburg neighborhood. Once Federal City is developed, this yard will require retrofitting to stitch together the adjacent street grids and provide connectivity between all neighborhoods.

Existing StreetsBarriers to Connectivity

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PROPOSED STREET NETWORK DIAGRAM

The Federal City plan strives to retain existing infrastruc-ture in roads, water mains, and sewer lines, and to weave together the adjacent neigh-borhood grids into a seamless and open street network. The plan for Federal City envisions the retention of two secured areas, one of which acts as a long-term barrier to connec-tivity in the secure compound. The secondary barrier is tem-porary and therefore not re-flected in this diagram. To mitigate the impact of the se-cured compound, Patterson Drive is re-established north of the compound, connecting through the Town Center and to Opelousas through a highly permeable street network. By providing a high degree of permeability, new and exist-ing streets may be built thin, which lowers impervious sur-face, heat-islands, and cost, and slows traffic to create safe streets.

Existing StreetsNew StreetsNew Pedestrian Paths

Secure Compound

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PROPOSED TRANSIT SHED DIAGRAM

10 minute walk

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Route 2 (Newton)

Route 1 (Opelousas)

General Meyer Route

Mississippi River

Town Square

DelgadoO. Perry WalkerHarriet TubmanBehrman Park

Transportation is an integral element of any city, town, or neighborhood. The success of the housing, job, and retail mix relies upon connectivity within a given site as well as a site's connectivity to places beyond.

A transportation shed is de-fined as the distance covered in a ten-minute walk at an easy pace to a centrally locat-ed transit stop.

A transit stop at the center of Federal City's main street and a second at Delgado and Beh-rman Park provide transit cov-erage for the entire site and immediately adjacent neigh-borhoods. Limiting transit stops makes overall transpor-tation systems more efficient, providing appropriate cover-age while reducing trip dura-tion and headtime.

Transit ShedTransit StopTransit Route

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PROPOSED PEDESTRIAN SHED DIAGRAM

5 minute walk5 minute walk

5 minute walk

Neighborhood size is deter-mined not by population, but by an area, defined as the dis-tance covered in a five-minute walk at an easy pace from the outer limit of the neighbor-hood proper to the neighbor-hood center.

This is the distance that most people will walk rather than drive, provided the environ-ment is pedestrian-friendly. This distance is a fundamental component of the neighbor-hood unit. It also defines the extent of the quartier, the TND, and the TOD. The pe-destrian shed is convention-ally one quarter of a mile.

Federal City consists of three unique pedestrian sheds; Town Square, Delgado, and River Road. At the center of each shed, neighborhood scale retail may be supported and service adjacent resi-dents. The shed at the Town Square consists of higher scale retail due to its proxim-ity to jobs, high-density hous-ing, and potential transit.

Town Square

DelgadoO. Perry WalkerHarriet TubmanBehrman Park

River Road/ Patrician

Mississippi River

Pedestrian ShedNeighborhood Center

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CIVIC OPEN SPACE DIAGRAM

Open space in the form of squares, greens, playgrounds, sports fields, and parks are provided as civic amenities throughout Federal City. Such open spaces are atypical in many New Orleans neighbor-hoods along the Mississippi River.

Washington Square, in Mari-gny, serves as an example of a civic square of the kind to be provided at Federal City. The small triangular greens and playgrounds found in Algiers Point serve as examples of the types of greens and play-grounds integral to the Fed-eral City plan.

Civic Open Space

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BUILDING TYPE DIAGRAM

The mix of building types and uses across the Federal City site are similar to that of the traditional fabrics of New Or-leans neighborhoods. This mix allows for a variety of housing options and price points within each neighbor-hood. This diversity also helps to support a greater variety of retail and professional offices.

Civic BuildingOffice BuildingMixed-Use BuildingAttached Multi-Family Resi-dentialDetached Multi-Family Resi-dentialAttached Single Family Resi-dentialDetached Single Family Resi-dentialAttached CottagesHotel

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SECURED AREA DIAGRAM

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Four secured perimeters of varying security levels are lo-cated within Federal City. Ex-isting military housing is locat-ed within perimeter 4, and will remain in this location until it is decommissioned, at which point the perimeter will be opened. The three remaining perimeters will be secured in-dividually, each with separate standards and restrictions.

Perimeter number 5 is a new type of secure Federal Com-pound in the form of a block. While meeting DOD stan-dards, this compound allows pedestrian access to Federal services without excessive entry restraints. Vehicular ac-cess is restricted, but pedes-trians may access via defined entrances. This may prove to be a new model for many Fed-eral services, like the passport agency, that require high vol-umes of civilian visitors.

Secured Perimeters1. Coast Guard Compound2. Federal Compound3. General's House4. Patrician Housing5. Pedestrian Accessible Se-cure Block

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PARKING SHED DIAGRAM

The Federal City site is sepa-rated into 6 distinct park-ing sheds and an additional shed at the existing shipyard site. These sheds are areas of mixed uses that will utilize the parking facilities provided within their shed. These areas may be used as managerial zones for on-street parking by permit.

Each shed is described in de-tail in the following pages.

Shed 1 ....................... B.18Shed 2 ....................... B.20Shed 3 ....................... B.22Shed 4 ....................... B.24Shed 5 ....................... B.26Shed 6 ....................... B.28Shed 7 ....................... B.32

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STORM WATER DIAGRAM

This diagram illustrates the high lev-el strategy for stormwater manage-ment through much of the site. This should be supplemented with the use of impervious materials where possible and local rainwater harvest-ing for irrigation. Street pavement should be minimized in order to re-duce impervious surfaces.

The route depicted daylights storm-water through a number of con-nected ponds and open swales. The ponds and swales should be con-nected with minimum piping and discharge to municipal systems in an overflow manner.

Engineering at the block and lot lev-el should integrate with this system, providing as much of the stormwa-ter connections at the surface or in daylit channels. Minimizing under-ground piping greatly reduces con-struction and maintenance costs.

The urban center, due to its high degree of impervious surface may require connection directly to the municipal system, to be determined as that phase is engineered.

Retention Ponds and Bio-SwalesUnderground PipesWater FlowOverflow Connection to Munici-pal Storm Water System

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CONSERVATION CENTERS DIAGRAM

This diagram identifies four poten-tial centers for conservation edu-cation and host for showpieces of green infrastructure.

Solar Collectors

Conservation Education

High-Intensity Vehicle Parking

Enhanced Lighting Controls

Wind Generation

Green Wall

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Wind Generation

Green Wall

Alternative Fuel Vehicle Charging

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LOCAL AGRICULTURE DIAGRAM

Local and individual produc-tion of food can reduce energy use from industrial production, packaging, and delivery infra-structure. Federal City intends to provide for managed and community level food produc-tion infrastructure, and encour-ages the production of food on an individual basis in front and rear gardens, window boxes, balconies, and rooftop gardens.

This diagram locates spaces within the community that may be used for managed or shared food production. Community gardens, as indicated both mid-block and along the river levee, should be offered to residents at a first come basis and may be managed by an association of residents.

Managed Gardens

Community Gardens

Managed Fruit & Nut Trees

Organic Restaurant & Market

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POWER GENERATION DIAGRAM

Community scale power gen-eration is a goal of Federal City; sites for future power genera-tion in the form of hydro-kinetic and wind harvesting will be iden-tified and may be preserved for these uses. These are indicated in purple, orange, and red, and are oriented along the Missis-sippi, which provides consistent current and frequent breezes.

Additional suggestions for the location of solar arrays and small scale wind generation are identified in two shades of green and associated with the roofs of parking garages, large commercial buildings, and civic institutions.

Individual residents will be en-couraged to contribute to the power infrastructure through the installation of solar water heating and solar energy collec-tion (PV) on a per-building basis.

Hydro-Kinetic

Large Wind Turbine

Small Wind Turbine

Solar Panels

Solar Panels & Small Wind Turbines

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HEATING & COOLING DIAGRAM

Energy wasted by air condition-ing may be mitigated through the installation of district cool-ing facilities and shared geo-thermal fields.

Two district cooling facilities are indicated here as central to the urban and institutional areas of Federal City. One loop may be configured for the town center and the secure facility and an-other for the school campuses and office buildings along Gen-eral Meyer. These facilities are located adjacent to the two ma-jor riothermal and geothermal fields.

Additional open areas are indi-cated for neighborhood level geothermal fields to be shared by adjacent residences and busi-nesses.

River Thermal

Geothermal Field

District Cooling Facility

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PARKING SHED 1 ANALYSIS

Use Area Parking Spaces Required

Parking Rate

Secure Office 766,400 sf 2,300 3 per 1,000 sf

Office 94,700 sf 284 3 per 1,000 sf

Retail 155,172 sf 466 3 per 1,000 sf

Residential 249 apts 375 1.5 per Unit Apt

School 37,600 sf 113 3 per 1,000 sf

Hotel 88 rooms 88 1 per Room

MarForRes 1100 Required

Parking Provided Spaces Provided Notes

Street 214 spaces Parallel Parking

Structured 4,117 spaces Between 4 & 5 stories

Surface Lots 331 spaces

Total Parking Required 4,726 spaces

Total Parking Provided 4,662 spaces

Parking Balance -64 spaces

Parking Shed 1 is by far the most ac-tive, including the core of Federal City's Town Center and the most secure com-pound reserved for federal buildings. According to DoD requirements, ve-hicular access to and parking near fed-eral buildings is significantly restricted. Inside of a secured perimeter, the re-strictions are less stringent, however the land within such a perimeter car-ries with it a high value for a concentra-tion of federal buildings. As such, the secure compound provides for a rela-tively small amount of internal parking, the surface lot spaces noted above, leaving the majority of the compound

for buildings and recreation spaces. Parking for these uses is located within the Town Center in a series of parking garages that are lined on the first two stories with retail uses and apartments. By providing for parking outside of the compound, the federal employees will engage in the Town Center on a daily basis, enriching its market and allowing it to supply a greater variety of shops and services. Also within this shed is the Recovery School District Military/Maritime Charter High School that will benefit from proximity with the federal offices.

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Existing Buildings

1. Mixed-Use Building

2. Not For Profit or Mixed-Use Building

3. Not For Profit or Mixed-Use Building

4. Recovery School District Military/Maritime Charter High School

5. Federal Building (H-100)

6. Utilities Building

7. Daycare Facility

New Buildings

8. Coast Guard Building

9. Federal Building

10. Marine Force Reserves Headquarters (MarForRes)

11. Apartment/Condo

12. Mixed-Use Liner


14. Parking Garage

Public Spaces

15. Main Plaza

16. Charter School Yard

17. Parade Ground and Track

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14

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14

13

1311

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11

12

12

10

99

9 9

9

8

6

5

4

4

3

2

7

1 15

16

17

13

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Use Area Parking Spaces Required

Parking Rate

Secure Office 124,300 sf 372 3 per 1,000 sf

Office 201,000 sf 603 3 per 1,000 sf

Retail 125,317 sf 376 3 per 1,000 sf

Residential Apartment 345 apts 518 1.5 per Unit Apt

Residential Single Family 19 lots 38 2 per lot

Residential Accessory Apt. 19 apts 29 1.5 per Unit Apt




Surface Lots 340 spaces Average of 2 spaces per lot

Total Parking Required 1,936 spaces

Total Parking Provided 2,483 spaces

Parking Balance +547 spaces

Parking Shed 2 covers the site area from General Meyer Ave to the Secure Federal Compound, including an ex-tension of main street. Additionally, a proposed relocation of Harriet Tubman and conversion of the building to condo units is included. At the intersection of General Meyer Ave and Behrman Ave, an open civic green signals the Federal Compound entry. A new street, one block east of Behrman Ave provides a formal entry, with wide swales, and an allee of trees, and is lined by 6-unit mansion apartments. Building scale increases from west to east across this area, where the western edge relates to adjacent residents with single family detached houses and the eastern edge with mixed-use buildings and liner build-ings.

At the center, two federal buildings provide easy pedestrian access to fed-

eral services, such as passport agencies, both adhering to strict federal perim-eter setbacks and engaging the neigh-borhood with an urban plaza. A con-sistent setback separates surrounding buildings, which can be highly secured, while principal building entrances re-main highly accessible. Vehicular access to the block is restricted within 150ft of the federal buildings.

Due to the vehicular access restrictions within the federal building perimeter, parking is allocated in a series of multi-use parking garages. These garages feed the federal buildings, non-federal office buildings, apartments, the fitness center, and the grocery store. Access for grocery store customers is provided by reserving the first level of the adja-cent garage for customer parking. Simi-larly federal and non-federal uses can lease parking garage space.

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Existing Buildings

1. Harriet Tubman school con-verted to condominiums

2. Gymnasium

3. Water Tower

New Buildings

4. Federal Office Building


6. Grocery Store with apart-ments above

7. Office Building

8. Apartment Buildings

9. Apartment Houses

10. Parking Garage

Public Spaces

11. Entry Green

12. Detention Pond

13. Water Tower Plaza

1

2

3

4

4

67

5

8

8

8

5

88

8 8

9 9

99

10

11

12

135

5

5

8

10

10

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Use Area Parking Spac-es Required

Parking Rate

Hotel 58 rooms 58 1 per room

Hotel Service 8,560 sf 26 3 per 1,000 sf

Office 53,400 sf 161 3 per 1,000 sf

Retail 91,500 sf 275 3 per 1,000 sf







Surface Lots 208 spaces 160 space auditorium lot not included in calculations

Residential Spaces 334 spaces

Total Parking Required 1,405 spaces *civic parking uses for library and auditorium not included in

calculationsTotal Parking Provided 1,858 spaces


Parking Shed 3 covers the strip of land from General Meyer Ave to the Missis-sippi River between the town center and the school campuses. This zone is principally programmed with residential uses in the form of apartments, man-sion apartments, townhomes, single family homes. Additionally, office build-ings line General Meyer Ave to the south and a hotel is sited near the Mississippi.

This area includes the remaining historic structures outside of the town center, which have been given prominent site locations as terminated vistas, or situ-ated in civic open space. The four large

officers' housing units that are of histor-ic value are moved from their current lo-cation to this area along the entry road on a green.

At the center of this zone, an existing building serves as part of a new library complex that includes an auditorium. These uses are shared between the school campuses to the West and the Federal facilities to the East.

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Existing Buildings

1. General's Residence

2. Community Center

3. Relocated Residences

4. Civic Building

5. Library (partially new)

New Buildings

6. Auditorium

7. Hotel

8. Condominiums

9. Apartment Building

10. Apartment Houses

11. Office Building

12. Parking Garage

13. Townhouses

14. Cottages

Public Spaces

15. Civic Green

16. Community Garden

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1

3

4

7

7

8

8

8

9

9

106

11

15

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16

15

12

12

7

8

11

99

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5

9

14

13

13

13 13

13

13

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Parking Rate

Retail 5,300 sf 16 3 per 1,000 sf







Total Parking Required 622 spaces

Total Parking Provided 844 spaces


Parking Shed 4 is comprised of the exist-ing Patrician Housing property. The cur-rent Patrician property extends slightly beyond this perimeter. The new perim-eter, as illustrated in these plans, is the result of a relocation of Patrician units to the naval base at Belle Chasse. Units within this area consist of mansion apartments, townhouses, and single family houses, all of which provide suf-ficient parking on site. Additional guest parking is available on-street in parallel parking spaces.

During the initial site build-out this area will remain disconnected from the re-mainder of Federal City, closed to ac-cess for non-residents. The develop-ment during this time will continue to hinder access to the Mississippi from

the school site and many of the Federal City residential units. Once the existing buildings are no longer serviceable, the Patrician property can be redeveloped with a mix of housing unit types, and configured to integrate into the Federal City grid and provide connection to the Mississippi. The redevelopment of this section creates a third center at its civic green, likely to support a coffee shop / cafe, that will be easily accessible from the existing adjacent units and the pro-posed units on the Federal City site.

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New Buildings

1. Live-Work Units

2. Townhouses

3. Apartment Houses


Public Spaces

5. Civic Green3

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5

1

1

1

11

2

1

1

23

3

3

3

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Parking Rate










Parking Shed 5 contains the bulk of Fed-eral City's single family residential units. These are grouped together to count parking due to the simplicity of residen-tial parking allocation and the adjacency of these blocks to the school and Patri-cian housing, which must be identified separately.

Housing units to the eastern edge of this zone are located in the current O. Perry Walker fields to provide a buffer and to more conveniently locate the fields. Currently the fields are under-utilized as they are single use. By con-centrating the activities of O. Perry Walker, Delgado, and Harriet Tubman in expanded fields, the activity level will be higher and may negatively impact the neighboring properties. By mov-

ing the fields slightly further into the Federal City site, the existing residential units adjacent to the site are fronted in-stead by single family houses. Addition-ally the new field location allows for a simplified connection to Behrman Park along its main entry.

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New Buildings

1. Townhouses

2. Apartment Houses

3. Live-Work Units

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3

1

1

1

3

1 1

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Parking Rate

School 304,290 sf 913 3 per 1,000 sf



Surface Lots 677 spaces




Parking Shed 6 consists of the combined campuses of O. Per-ry Walker High School, Delgado Community College, Harriet Tubman Charter Elementary, their combined athletic facili-ties, and takes into account the adjacent Behrman Park to the south. Concentrating these schools and their facilities creates a unified academic campus and allows each of the schools to benefit from each others' facilities in the form of assembly spaces, technical laboratories, library, and even faculty. In or-der to facilitate this attitude of cooperation, the schools are organized into a single campus. Each school is concentrated around one or more greens that serve as social space for the campus, and link the schools together. As is typical in Ameri-can campus planning, the corners of the greens are left open, providing access to the adjacent spaces.

Shared athletic facilities are retained on site in an expanded format. Though this space may be utilized solely by the schools as they see fit, it would be advantageous for the schools and the community to consider these fields and Behrman Park as community facilities. In this case, the schools could use the fa-cilities of Behrman Park and the schools' facilities would like-wise be open to use. To encourage this relationship, the fields are placed on axis with the entry to Behrman Park.

In addition to the above program, the need for a local medi-cal facility is well known. Adjacent to Behrman Park is an old medical facility that could be retrofit as a small medical facility for the local community and Algiers in general.

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Existing Buildings

1. Civic Building

2. Community Hospital

3. Delgado

4. O. Perry Walker

5. Chapel

New Buildings

6. Hospital Addition

7. Delgado

8. O. Perry Walker

9. Harriet Tubman

Public Spaces

10. School Green

11. School Parking

12. Shared Playing Fields

13. Behrman Park

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11

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10

10

10

10

10

7

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4

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13

13

7

77 7 810

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SCHOOL CAMPUS DIAGRAM

Delgado Community College Campus

Harriet Tubman Charter Elementary School Campus

O. Perry Walker School Campus

Shared Fields

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SCHOOL CAMPUS DIAGRAM

Street Network during normal hours

School Greens

Street Network during Drop-off/ Pick-up Hours

School Surface Parking Lots

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Parking Rate

Retail 3,700 sf 12 3 per 1,000 sf










Parking Shed 7 envisions a redevelop-ment of the brownfield site owned by the Port of New Orleans. The site is cur-rently under-utilized and obsolete. Un-fortunately it currently cuts the Tunis-burg neighborhood off from connecting to the east just as the current naval compound cuts it off from the west. The redevelopment of the brownfield site seeks to connect the eastern neigh-borhoods through the future Federal City grid.

The Tunisburg neighborhood and the homes to the east of the brownfield lack a clear center, which can be pro-vided by the redevelopment. Two main elements integrate this site with the

neighborhoods: formalizing the exist-ing athletic facilities as civic / commu-nity space in the form of a civic green, and the introduction of a neighborhood green with a mixed-use neighborhood retail building to provide the small-scale retail services that the neighborhood is lacking. Towards the Mississippi, the ex-isting grid of Tunisburg is cut through to Patterson Drive, which is also connect-ed by a new intermediate road. To the east, the new development completes the partially built blocks to integrate the new development and stitch together the neighborhood.

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1

1

23

3

4

5

5

5

New Buildings

1. Apartment Houses

2. Mixed-Use Building and Community Center

Public Spaces

3. Civic Green

4. Community Park

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REGULATING PLAN

T5 - Urban CenterT4 - General UrbanT3 - Sub-UrbanCB - Civic BuildingCS - Civic SpaceSD1 - Secure CompoundSD2 - School Campuses

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Federal City, New Orleans, LouisianaMaster PlanB.40


PHASING

Phase 1 (Article VII.2a)Phase 2 (Article VII.2b)Phase 3 (Article VII.3)Phase 4 (Article VII.4)Outside of Site Boundaries

Phasing indicated here is a physical approximation of the development timeline as set forth in Article VII of the Federal City Declaration of Gover-nance. Milestones in this document specify development targets and land ownership relationships. This phasing diagram intends to generalize these milestones and to provide a framework within which each stage of develop-ment may complete a comprehensive element of Federal City. Development may extend beyond the borders illus-trated here but should attempt to com-plete these areas in their entirety prior to further development. Re-use of ex-isting structures may occur outside of these boundaries.

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COMPETITION PLAN

© 2010 Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company Competition Plan

ILLUSTRATIVE MASTER PLAN

In August of 2007, HRI, ECC, and DPZ completed a 5 day private charrette, produc-ing among other documents an illustrative master plan for the Federal City site. The Competition master plan depicted here differs signifi-cantly from the final master plan presented previously in this document. Between the competition charrette and the public charrette held in 2009, numerous program-matic requirements changed, which led to the basis of the new design. In addition, more attention has been paid in the new plan to retaining existing buildings and infrastructure.

Existing BuildingsNew BuildingsOpen SpacesResidential LotsParking Structures

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Federal City, New Orleans, LouisianaCompetition Plan

DIAGRAMS

Security Perimeters

Open Space

Preserved and Moved Buildings

Thoroughfares

C.2

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