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Here is a photo taken at the site of 3121 Josephine Due to the limited lot size and odd configuration nothing will ever be rebuilt at this site. What could have served as a tool of redevelopment is gone.

The Neighborhood Conservation District has this property on the agenda for next week. But a permit and approval has already been issued by the City… Of course this NCDC agenda is the same agenda that has a home listed which is owned and occupied by a very well know local attorney.

Here is one of the houses fast tracked for demolition under the Mayors Executive Order. We went to Recovery Committee Meeting to request that the Executive Order be repealed and instead we were given a lesson in political “niceness” No one raised their voices and nothing happened, it was a regular Tea Party. Now a […]

This property was declared as such The owner raced over here from Texas when he heard.. They have been waiting on the Road Home. Here is what they posted on the property to protect it from demolition.

Economic Development already. The City tore this house down days ago and already it is a landfill site. Now that’s progress!!

“link”:http://www.cityofno.com/pg-146-4-executive-orders-pertaining-to-hurricanes-gustav-and-ike.aspx

I just received this e mail from local attorney, Keith Hardie, Jr. The Mayor’s rush to demolish historic buildings in the wake of Gustave is only one aspect of the inadequacy of the City’s protection of neighborhoods. As we speak, the historic McMahon Funeral Home being converted into a Haunted House/Reception Center/Paranormal Research Center (with […]

Today the Mayor spoke at the City Council Recovery Meeting. Lot’s of kisses, lot’s of backslaps and lot’s of confusion. The Mayor was firm in his resolve to continue to enforce the Executive Order. And Dr. Blakley spoke about how important it was to maintain our Historic housing stock and all the while upstairs they […]

This house was demolished yesterday.. For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. (H. L. Mencken) Mencken must have talking about the Mayor when he wrote this. “This morning the TP”:http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/09/teardowns_now_need_consent.html ran an article about the Mayor and his Executive Order. The logic behind this is simply stunning. The […]