Barry and his longtime colleague Paul Sedway were retained by the Bureau of Governmental Research (BGR), a New Orleans based non-profit, to prepare a detailed evaluation of the City’s Working Draft Comprehensive Plan prior to its adoption by the City Council. The 700-page Comprehensive Plan was intended to guide development and reconstruction of the city in the post-Katrina era. Miller and Sedway issued a position paper on the Working Draft, along with recommendations on how it could be made stronger and more effective. This was presented in testimony before the Planning Commission and City Council on BGR’s behalf and resulted in positive changes to the document prior to its adoption.