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Since we have been so closely involved in the “Demolition issues”:http://thinknola.com/post/hard-charging-can-do-incompetence/ we have been wondering since the recent Tax Sale if the City was cross checking information about the properties sold and the Demolition list. I had been told by Safety and Permits that they had cross checked. Considering that FEMA was not paying to […]

The owners of a Hotel on St. Charles want to demolish this bldg. for a Parking Lot. There are already a number of surface parking lots in this area close to St. Charles. This will be heard at City Council on Thursday March 6 at 10 am

“Strange”:http://www.doe.state.la.us/lde/comm/pressrelease.aspx?PR=888 “Bedfellows”:http://www.sfmpop.org/home/ Looks like they want to demolish this one… “according to City Business”:http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/viewStory.cfm?recID=30008 “links”:http://g-bitch.com/?p=439 “and more links”:http://wecouldbefamous.blogspot.com/2008/02/how-to-grade-rsds-homework-part-3.html and “another link”:http://g-bitch.com/?p=438 Also “Mid City is pissed about “Moris F.X. Jeff”:http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/uptotheminute.cfm?recid=15880 and last but not least a link to one of the Contractors on the “Master Plan”:http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/29/africa/rebuild.php Shock and Awe anyone? The report serves as the […]

The Housing Conservation District Review Committee of the City of New Orleans will hold its meeting on Monday, February 25th, 2008 at 10:00 am at 1300 Perdido Street, City Hall in Safety & Permits Department on the 7th floor, Room 7E07. This meeting is to review the following demolition applications submitted to the Department of […]

For some reason this City appears to be bound and determined to bulldoze houses. At the HCDRC hearing on Jan 14th we “protested the decision”:http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/01/panel_denies_29_demolition_req.html to demolish 29 of the 91 demolitions proposed. Now the Sanitation Department in concert with Dr.Edward Blakley is appealing those denials to City Council. Our arguments were based on Structural […]

“You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.” Yogi Berra “link to article”:http://www.nola.com/timespic/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-10/120340217945380.xml&coll=1 Outlining the changes for City Council members, Nagin aides said a key feature of their plan is a computerized tracking system, which will record each step in an effort to eliminate […]

There will be a presentation of the Code enforcement program Let’s hope they include HANO and City owned properties CITY OF NEW ORLEANS COUNCIL RESEARCH DIVISION INTEROFFICE MEMORANDUM February 13, 2008 TO: Councilmember Stacy S. Head, Co-Chairperson, District “B” Councilmember Cynthia Willard-Lewis, Co-Chairperson, District “E” Councilmember-At-Large Jacquelyn Brechtel Clarkson Councilmember James Carter, District “C” FROM: […]

I have been documenting houses for over 2 years, the initial landscapes of destruction were omnipresent and painful, as time passed the human element became erased, partially because they had been hauled off and also because what was left took on a sameness of tone and color. Yesterday when I saw these 2 houses side […]

Housing Conservation District Review Committee February 11, 2008 7th floor Safety and Permits OR 8th Floor Homeland Security New Business: “2237 N. Prieur St”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/2237.North.Prieur.Street 9201 Airline Hwy. “3615 Tulane Ave.”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/3615.Tulane.Avenue “2809-11 New Orleans St.”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/2809.New.Orleans.Street 2420 Bartholomew St. 2305 Painters St. 100 Chalfant Pl. 2855 Law Street 3615 Jana Street “9309 Belfast St.”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/9309.Belfast.Street “8017 Forshey St”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/8017.Forshey.Street […]

Eve Troeh, from National Public Radio interviewed us last year and has done a remarkable job with this project “Finding Solid Ground”:http://www.findingsolidground.org/ Diane Baker whose home is pictured above is interviewed in the first part. Yesterday the Times Picayune published a report on the “Good Neighbor Program/Farce”:http://www.nola.com/timespic/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-10/1202019666247260.xml&coll=1