Watchdog Group Calls New Orleans Plan Unrealistic

A nonprofit watchdog group has said that a comprehensive $14-billion rebuilding plan for New Orleans is unclear and “chooses to maintain the indecisive and confusing approach that has characterized the city’s recovery for a year and a half,” reports the Associated Press.

The Bureau of Governmental Research, in New Orleans, called the proposal “basically a wish list, devised without realistic consideration of financial parameters.”

“If we’re going to have a plan, it’s very important to get it right,” said the group’s president, Janet Howard.

The proposal’s project manager, Troy Henry, defended the Unified New Orleans Plan—which the city will use to attract federal money—saying that the public has supported the plan’s suggestions. The New Orleans planning council may approve the proposal in the next several weeks.

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