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Orleans. i�i Perhaps chief among them is the absence of habitable dwellings, which has been exacerbated by the failure of local authorities to take full charge of the planning process and thereby create a framework for rebuilding. Recently New Orleans officials chose to forego traditional comprehensive planning seen under a Euclidean zoning scheme in favor of a planning process that will delegate responsibility to fifteen planning teams who will be guided by groups of residents from various parts of New Orleans. i�� Although the grand scheme calls for all of the individual neighborhood plans to be incorporated into a single master plan at some point, thus far there are no comprehensive guidelines being promulgated for the design of the neighborhoods. In the absence of new, broadly applicable standards, residents are free to rebuild in exactly the same manner that caused many properties to sustain serious and in some cases irremediable damage.123 Groups of residents, while ostensibly empowered to affect their own neighborhoods or their own houses, are not empowered to undertake the sort of broad structural and environmental remediation needed to avoid future disasters.124 Moreover, even if such consultations were able to reflect the views of the broader constituency, there is some concern that residents would avoid doing so in lieu of promoting i�i For a fuller discussion of the housing-related problems of poor blacks in New Orleans in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, see Lolita Buckner Inniss, A Domestic Right of Return? Race, Rights and Residency in New Orleans in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, forthcoming Boston College Third World Law Journal (2007). '�� Nicolai Ourousoff, In New Orleans, Each Resident is Master of the Plan to Rebuild, N.Y. Times (New York), August 8, 2006, The Arts, at B 1. 123 Id 124 T.7 1 Ll 34