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1817 S. Dupre St. Owners Rodney and Carlotta Jefferson have applied to demolish this raised basement Arts-and-Crafts style bungalow to be replaced with a modular three-bedroom, two-bath residence “reminiscent of homes built in the 1940s”.
This area is largly populated with many homes of this style.
Karen Gadbois co-founded The Lens. She now covers New Orleans government issues and writes about land use. With television reporter Lee Zurik she exposed widespread misuse of city recovery funds and led... More by Karen Gadbois
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these people are not to smart if they are using aphrase like “reminiscent of homes built
in the 1940s”. They are trying to sound like they are smart and doing the neighboorhood a favor. Down With Modular Houses!!!
so If owners who never took care of their house before katrina want to demolish it is ok but owners who take care of their house and want to demo cannot. that doesn’t seem fair,(although i am against most demolitions in hcdrc zones) people who had been lazy with their house before katrina should be forced to restore or sell.