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When will the City get it right? Speaks for itself.

This comment was left on this blog Another distressing aspect of LSU/VA footprint is that the public is generally unaware that a neighborhood is being obliterated to make way for a PROPOSED development. In 2005, someone convinced the Regional Planning Commission to adopt the currently-considered footprint (S. Claiborne to S. Rocheblanve and from Tulane to […]

Neighborhood Conservation District Committee Meeting on May 5th , 2008 Public Notice The Neighborhood Conservation District Committee of the City of New Orleans will hold its meeting on Monday, May 5th, 2008 at ntary2:00 p.m. at 1300 Perdido Street, City Hall in City Council Chambers on the 1st floor. This meeting is to review the […]

Over the last year that has felt like a million lifetimes we have come across a number of people who have had their homes demolished by the City. It reminded me of a book I read a number of years ago, “The House of Sand and Fog”:http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/read/sandandfog/ The premise of the book is that a […]

“Sometimes what we squander is common sense and the health of our citizen’s.”:http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/viewStory.cfm?recID=30578 “For more of the story”:http://citizenscityhall.com/2008/04/21/oh-what-a-tangled-web/

Last month we walked with the Mardi Gras Indians by the landscape of change. With all the talk of the buildings coming down I found little discussion of the impact of “changing the public space”:http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/elie/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1208323471243710.xml&coll=1, and what that means for future walks through the City. “I found this lecture series very interesting”:http://www.invisibleinstitute.com/conference In it they […]

Ashley was a passionate, generous soul. His “funeral”:http://www.dsbnola.com/?p=143 was a fitting tribute to a friend and again “closed”:http://toulousestreet.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/tragedy-in-two-acts/ a “sad circle.”:http://b.rox.com/2008/04/11/no-silence/ How could anyone have suspected on that day in January of 2007 as we marched to show our outrage as a City, our outrage over the murders “Dinneral Shavers”:http://foodmusicjustice.com/2007/01/09/dinerral-shavers-in-memorium/ and “Helen Hill”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Hill as well […]

CITY OF NEW ORLEANS THE NEW ORLEANS HISTORIC DISTRICT LANDMARKS COMMISSION WILL HOLD ITS NEXT REGULARLY SCHEDULED MEETING ON FRIDAY, April 11th AT 9:30 A.M. IN THE CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS IN CITY HALL AT 1300 PERDIDO STREET . THE PUBLIC IS WELCOME. MEETING STARTING TIME IS 9:30 A.M. “727-29 N. Robertson Street”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/727.North.Robertson.Street Howard Herbert, owner […]

“Death and life are in the power of the tongue”:http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13790a.htm The words and “deeds”:http://www.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/stories3/120402_burns.htm of “Archbishop Alfred Hughes”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Clifton_Hughes Our action or inaction failed to protect the innocents among us, the children. I ask for forgiveness “Todays news”:http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/04/archbishop_announces_sweeping.html “For more”:http://citizenscityhall.com/2008/04/09/archdiocese-releases-plan-to-close-churches-asks-us-to-leave-the-room/