The New Orleans City Council today takes up some high profile issues.
One is a resolution approving the rules and regulations for the short-term rental lottery.
The council recently approved limits on Air BnB and VRBO rentals in residential neighborhoods. The new rules require most short-term rentals to shut down in the city.
So, who can operate one? The council today takes up the lottery plan to pick which properties can continue to let people rent them out for short periods of time.
City lawmakers will also consider how to make parking lots and parking garages safer amid a huge spike in auto thefts along with increased burglaries and violent crime.
The council looks at amending the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance to require "security measures and crime mitigation efforts at parking structures and parking lots."
Elsewhere on the agenda, council members will discuss a blight-fighting measure to let people maintain abandoned properties and earn the right to take ownership of the blighted lots.
A resolution addresses the "2023 Mow to Own" program rules.





