Category Archives: About FQC

The scope of French Quarter Citizens activities is as vast as the many challenges affecting our historic neighborhood. Recent efforts include ensuring that legislative re-districting maintains the French Quarter as a single unit, helping to ensure our city and state legislatures focus on our problems. We have participated in efforts to call attention to our deficient and deteriorating infrastructure; the Mayor has promised money to repave at least some streets but has not found resources to address the deplorable state of many of our sidewalks — or to mount effective efforts to keep them from being damaged by heavy delivery trucks.… Read more »

Our members are key to achieving our mission to “… preserve the quality of life in the Vieux Carre neighborhood, its historical character and architecture …” and to contribute to the resolution of problems confronting our neighborhood. We reach out to our members publishing the French Quarter Write four times per year. Our website is being reworked to improve communication with our members, and our Facebook presence provides still further opportunities to let the Officers and Board know what members think.… Read more »

The Quarter’s architecture plays a key role in its desirability to residents and visitors alike. FQC efforts contribute to and support the Vieux Carré Commission’s work protecting our historic buildings and way of life. Since Katrina, we’ve focused on city planning; the vote approving a Master Plan with the force of law was a major step forward.  FQC takes positions on zoning and permitting issues affecting the French Quarter supporting initiatives and uses consistent with preserving the character of the French Quarter. … Read more »

FQC was founded in 1994 to strengthen the quality of residential life in the French Quarter. Not surprisingly, we focus much of our effort in this area. FQC is heavily engaged in the current efforts to write a new ordinance to control noise; we insist on simple, straightforward, and easily enforced rules that protect and promote the music — not noise — for which New Orleans is justly famous.… Read more »