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In a recent Mid City neighborhood survey, the City of New Orleans was found to have a low accuracy rate for FEMA-funded hazard demolitions. Overall,the results of the MCNO survey contrasts greatly with Mayor Nagins “claim of 99.9%”:http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/index.ssf?/base/news-0/119320435487180.xml&coll=1 accuracy. and his pledge that ” no home is demolished improperly” MCNO undertook a review in August […]

Over the last few weeks the “slippery eel”:http://www.cityofno.com/ has been hard at work demolishing properties that for some reason have escaped HCDRC review. Here is the demo of the day in MidCity. While the residents of the City have encouraged active reinvestment in the City, the City itself has encouraged, promoted and provided the means […]

I wrote an “earlier post”:http://www.squanderedheritage.com/2007/11/30/the-recovery-school-district/ about a trip to Lockett School. Here is a letter from one of the members of the “Bunny Friend”:http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2004-09-07/blake.html Neighborhood Association. Dear Councilwoman Hedge-Morrell, I am writing to you on behalf of Johnson C. Lockett Elementary School, the elementary school I and my sisters and brothers and my entire neighborhood […]

Housing Conservation District Review Committee December 10, 2007 10 AM Room 7E07, 7th Floor, City Hall NEW BUSINESS “2500 Danneel St.”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/2500.Danneel.Street – Demolition of a corner building by Jericho Road for the construction of a single family home. “2427 Republic St.”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/2427.Republic.Street Demolition of a bracketed double shotgun. The adjacent neighbor intends to buy the property […]

Today I took a tour of the Lockett School. This school has 3 buildings all built at diffrent times. 2 of the more recent Buildings are beyond repair. But the Main Bldg. still sings. The Main Bldg is a typical Arts and Crafts structure, those buildings really resonate as school structures. The way the halls […]

On Monday at the HCDRC meeting a representative from the City Attorneys Office came in with 20 properties NOT on the agenda. These properties are requests for demolition that came in through the City. There seems to be no interface between the HCDRC Commitee and the City itself. The fact that the Commitee heard and […]

Housing Conservation District Review Committee November 26 2007 10 AM Room 7E07 7th Floor City Hall NEW BUSINESS 4131 Willow St. – Demolition of an Arts & Crafts building to be replaced with a home. No redevelopment plans have been provided. 3927 Camp St. – Demolition of a single family home. No redevelopment plans have […]

I came home and the Neighbor was knocking down this addition to his house. Without a permit. They were preparing to attach a cable to the roof and pull it down with a truck. This after 2 days of sledge hammer work. Another neighbor, concerned that the gas pipes had not been capped called the […]

A report from “Miami”:http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2006-09-14/news/blight-fight/. Here is a link to an old letter in the “Miami”:http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2006-10-05/news/letters-from-the-issue-of-october-5-2006/ newspaper. This comment was left on my blog by “Chuck D’Aprix”:http://blog.economicdevelopmentvision.com/ Not all of you may remember the sad pathetic case of “Lisa Mazique”:http://squanderedheritage.com/2006/10/13/lisa-mazique-and-the-clio-street-nightmare/, our former Department Head at NORA. After she left New Orleans she got another job in […]

Seems the zoning changes needed for the St. Charles “project”:http://www.nola.com/timespic/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-8/1195021987260630.xml&coll=1 were not to be. This high profile Battle for the destiny of St.Charles will continue, but how?