In an editorial posted today on the Urban Conservancy website, director Dana Eness spells-out what many of us working with water in New Orleans know: it’s past time for developers, planners, builders and government officials to implement the new rules of development that help us build a more resilient and healthy community. Noting the influx of national retailers who continue to build cookie-cutter parking lots and shops using design standards rooted in the 20th century, Dana sounds the call to change our ways, stop using outmoded financing and car-oriented designs, and follow the new rules as set forth in the many insightful guides such as the Urban Water Plan the New Orleans Master Plan and other important documents shaping our future. Those of us in the choir know this story well, but we are perhaps being a bit too timid in speaking loudly and effectively to accelerate adoption of the vital principles in those guides. We congratulate and thank Dana Eness for writing this editorial and encourage everyone to share it widely.