 Schiro also initiated a code of ethics for city employees.Devoting attention to urban planning, Schiro helped sponsor the creation of the New Orleans Regional Planning Commission to devise programming for the effective disbursement of federal assistance, got New Orleans included in Lyndon Johnson’s Model Cities Program, and established NORA, the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority.His widening of the downtown Poydras Street corridor allowed for substantial new development in the area in the following decades.