The BNOB report was issued on January 11 in a sea of protest. Fifteen minutes before the report was issued the City Council announced its opposition. The Time Picayune published the report the night before.

Major points:

• Assumes Congressional support for big ticket items on the table now like the Baker plan, the Bush levee, gates and pumps plan, HUD administered community development block grants. Calls for FEMA flood maps within 30 days.
  
• District Planning to plan redevelopment of neighborhoods (using the 13 districts used by the city planning commission) by May
  
• Four month delay in issuing building permits in devastated areas while planning proceeds
• Crescent City Recovery Corporation to buy and redevelop neighborhoods starting in August
• Focus on parks, schools, internal levees, light rail
  
• Mention of cultural development, social services and healthcare, economic development
• Comprehensive, creative, controversial