P.O. Box 24378  New Orleans, LA 70184   504.324.2270

NORA Committee Report

             The NORA Committee meets monthly and has been tasked with working with NORA and its staff to effectively handle the use and disposition of properties sold by property owners through Louisiana’s Road Home program.  Properties sold through this program are held and maintained by the State through the Louisiana Land Trust until NORA requests the properties for use or resale.  The NORA Committee has provided substantial input and guidance to NORA’s staff and its board members since the end of 2007 to ensure that NORA’s management of the Road Home properties reflects the ideas and values of the Lakeview community.

             At this stage, plans are now underway to initiate the Lot Next Door program that will enable residents with Homestead Exemptions to buy, at current fair market value, the property adjacent to it if it was acquired by NORA through the Road Home program.  The Committee is currently working through our Beacon/LCIA Administrators and with NORA’s staff members to compile names and addresses of all eligible property owners who own property adjacent to Road Home properties.  We anticipate that this process will be completed during the month of June at which time formal notices and instructions will be mailed to those property owners to begin the process of purchasing those lots.  However, if you know that you live adjacent to a Road Home property and are interested in purchasing the lot next door through this program, please complete the Statement of Interest form contained on our web site, www.lakeviewcivic.org. and fax it to the number on the form.  A list of Lakeview properties that are currently held by the Louisiana Land Trust is also available on the site.  A committee-led town hall neighborhood meeting will be held this summer to further inform residents on how the process will work and for other potential plans for NORA properties.

Statement of Interest in Purchasing Road Home/NORA Property