This polygon shapefile represents Planning Districts for New Orleans, LA in 2017. Planning Districts are defined and permanent areas of New Orleans used to collect planning data to show trends over time. These districts are not official and are used in-house by the City Planning Commission. 1990 Census tract boundaries were used in the creation of these boundaries. This file was downloaded on December, 2018 by NYU Data Services. It was originally represented on the New Orleans Open Data Socrata portal as catalog record 3kp4-ecpw