The New Orleans City Council voted Thursday to let a French Quarter resident install solar panels on the roof of his home, making it the first such effort in the historic neighborhood, long considered the "final frontier" as solar and other energy-efficient technologies take hold in the rebuilding city.
Longtime resident Glade Bilby had sought approval to install the panels, which transform sunlight into electric power, on one side of the roof of his three-and-a-half-story brick townhouse in the 600 block of Esplanade Avenue. However, the Vieux Carre Commission, the city's regulatory agency for the Quarter, denied Bilby's application for the work by a 5-3 vote on Oct. 19.
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