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NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT U. S. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Replacement Medical Center Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System VAMC New Orleans, LA The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announces the preparation and availability of a document titled “Draft Environmental Assessment” (EA) for the proposed land acquisition and construction associated with the Replacement […]

Link to “today’s TP article”:http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/01/panel_denies_29_demolition_req.html Approved Demolitions “link to map”:http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&ll=29.957017,-90.072956&spn=0.077933,0.167027&z=13&om=1&msid=105646371802170237687.000443c6238998711929f Denied demolitions “link to the map”:http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&ll=29.957612,-90.074844&spn=0.077933,0.167027&z=13&om=1&msid=105646371802170237687.000443c6c885b2e27c829

I have been looking at the Master List that Matt McBride compiled using several data bases. Here is partial text of his letter The city’s notification process for demolitions has been notoriously ineffective. Lists of Imminent Health Threat and Imminent Danger of Collapse properties are posted to the city’s website, and then disappear within days. […]

Housing Conservation District Review Committee January 14, 2008 AGENDA NEW BUSINESS: “1405-07 Port Street”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/1405.Port.Street “8537 / 39 Sycamore”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/8537.Sycamore.Street “33 Newcomb Blvd.”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/33.Newcomb.Boulevard “1527 Antonie St.”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/1527.Antonine.Street “4335 State Street Dr”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/4335.State.Street.Drive 1230 Lamanche Bld. A 1230 Lamanche Bld. B 1230 Lamanche Bld. C OLD BUSINESS: 9424 Oleander St. In addition Most of these properties are “linked here”:http://www.squanderedheritage.com/2007/12/29/642/

I just wanted to post these 2 properties while I work on the others The first is 33 Newcomb Blvd. The other is 1527 Antonine St Both of these properties have applied for Demolition permits and are on the agenda for Monday Jan 14

An “OpEd”:http://www.nola.com/timespic/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-4/119968684268660.xml&coll=1 piece in the Times Pic addresses one of the issues we have been working on. They failed however to address the lack of due process and the issues of the “Imminent Health Threat” homes and the “Imminent Danger of Collapse” The house on 1574 N. Dorgenois is one such house, it is listed […]

This evening a homeowner “left a comment”:http://www.squanderedheritage.com/homeowner-letter/ on this blog. I can’t begin to express my frustration with this process and this City. A small band of dedicated people have lent hour after hour, week after week and now month after month to encourage the City to “fix this broken system.”:http://www.squanderedheritage.com/2007/11/28/hcdrc-broken-beyond-belief/ The property this homeowner […]

The “Times Picayune had a piece on the HCDRC”:http://www.nola.com/timespic/stories/index.ssf?/base/library-139/1199200204154110.xml&coll=1 today. I had some concern about the article till I turned to the Public Notice section of the paper There were many address but one jumped out at me because I have been worried about this house for some time. 1574-76 N.Dorgenois Now according to the […]