Set on a placid inlet and sandy beach, next door to the Ritz-Carlton and close to the Red Hook ferry, this upscale time-share operation is similar to its sibling Limetree Beach Resort by Club Wyndham.

Over the objection of hundreds of neighborhood residents, the New Orleans City Council on Thursday approved plans for a five-story hotel on Elysian Fields Avenue in the Faubourg Marigny that will ...