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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 […]

I would like to begin this post by telling you before you read it how I felt after I wrote it. I felt like I was trying to compose an epic poem, and I am not a poet. That by introducing the element of cultural genocide I was going to invite the scorn of those […]

Don’t tear anything down.

The past few weeks we have seen a lot of attention being paid to the word demolition. It has been almost 2 years since I returned home to New Orleans. My own house is still under repair but since we have a raised house our primary living spaces are upstairs. So our day to day […]