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While driving around the City taking photos of houses on the agenda for Mondays demolition hearings, I began to notice that the utilities were cut off BEFORE approval and that the subcontractor was defacing the property by spray painting the initials of the company, AJM. There were a couple of things that struck me about […]

*NEW BUSINESS* *INCOMPLETE WILL BE FINISHED LATER TODAY* “1907 Caffin Ave”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/1907.Caffin.Street. “1930 Delery Street”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/1930.Delery.Street “9437 Oleander St”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/9437.Oleander.Street . “2514-16 N. Miro St”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/2514.North.Miro.Street . “1813 N. Johnson St”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/1813.North.Johnson.Street . “8822 Edinburgh St”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/8822.Edinburg.Street. “2525-27 N. Miro St”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/2525.North.Miro.Street . “2320 Mazant St”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/2320.Mazant.Street. “4624-26 Laurel St”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/4624.Laurel.Street *City Demolitions* *Voluntary* “2732-34 Banks”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/2732.Banks.Street *Voluntary* 2720 Clara *Voluntary* “1808-10 Cleveland”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/1808.Cleveland.Street *Voluntary* “1626 […]

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 […]