Mayor LaToya Cantrell has signed an ordinance designed to help clean up Frenchmen Street between Esplanade Avenue and Dauphine Street. This area includes a high concentration of restaurants and entertainment venues that routinely attract many tourists and residents, similar to the volume witnessed in the French Quarter/Downtown Development District (FQ/DDD). As a result, various sections of Chapter 138 of the City Code that apply to the FQ/DDD have been modified to include Frenchmen Street.

“To keep our city cleaner and safer, we need the sanitation efforts we’ve seen in the French Quarter area applied to Frenchmen Street. This area of Faubourg Marigny has become its own entertainment district. We need to maximize all of our resources, from residents to businesses, to #CleanUpNOLA,” said Mayor Cantrell.

“Frenchmen’s increased popularity with residents and visitors alike means we need to increase our sanitation services to ensure we are providing everyone with a healthy and safe environment to enjoy the cultural contributions of this area of the city,” said Kristin Gisleson Palmer, City Councilmember, District C.

This will have two sets of impacts. The first one features collection schedule changes:

• Everyone must place their solid waste curbside prior to 4 a.m. for collection between the hours of 4 a.m. and 8 a.m.
• All carts must be removed from the curb no later than 9 a.m. after the morning collection.
• Properties which receive evening collections are to place their solid waste curbside no earlier than 3:30 p.m. for collection between the hours of 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. All carts are to be removed the curb as promptly as possible after collections.
• All carts are to be removed from the curb between the hours of 9 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. daily.

The second features containment:

• If an exemption from using a roll cart is obtained from the Department of Sanitation, residents must place their solid waste in a 0.8 mil or greater black, plastic bag.
• Solid waste from commercial businesses is to be properly contained in garbage receptacles with tight fitting lids or placed in fastened 3.0 mil or greater black, plastic bags.
• White trash bags, grocery bags, paper bags and cardboard boxes are not acceptable for collection of solid waste.

All commercial businesses within the designated boundaries are to make arrangements with their private collection contractors to increase the frequency of collections during special events, if significant increases in their volumes of solid waste are anticipated.