Today the Mayor spoke at the City Council Recovery Meeting. Lot’s of kisses, lot’s of backslaps and lot’s of confusion. The Mayor was firm in his resolve to continue to enforce the Executive Order. And Dr. Blakley spoke about how important it was to maintain our Historic housing stock and all the while upstairs they […]

This house was demolished yesterday.. For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. (H. L. Mencken) Mencken must have talking about the Mayor when he wrote this. “This morning the TP”:http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/09/teardowns_now_need_consent.html ran an article about the Mayor and his Executive Order. The logic behind this is simply stunning. The […]

Dear New Orleanians, The demolition process – such as it was pre-Gustav – has gone completely off the rails. For those of you not familiar with the story, here’s the nickel version. Four days after Gustav hit on Labor Day, Mayor Nagin issued an executive order – claiming powers under a state of emergency – […]

The sites should all have water sprays while they are being demolished. This was the 3rd one THIS week alone with no dust prevention. “Read more about Gustav Gate”:http://www.preservationnation.org/magazine/2008/story-of-the-week/gustavgate-hits-new-orleans.html

The City issued a demolition permit for this building under the Mayors Executive order. Go figure…… UPDATE According to the City’s department of Safety and Permits, this is a permit to finish the demolition of the building started in 2005. This permit authorized the removal of the remaining pile caps and underground features so that […]

“Karen was from my hometown”:http://wcbstv.com/topstories/dna.9.11.2.239422.html

The owner of this property has been aggressively trying to demolish this property. Under his current “Emergency Order” the owner went in, applied for and now has a permit to demolish. The owner, Freret Hardware has found a way to game the system and it seems that the City is going to continue to encourage […]

Pursuant to Executive Order CRN 08-04 which is attached, the next meeting of the NCDC is cancelled. Once the State of Emergency is lifted, we will prepare an agenda and distribute it to you. I anticipate we will resume our regularly scheduled meeting for October 6, 2008. I will provide additional details once I have […]

I took a trip today with “Maitri”:http://vatul.net/blog/, “Jacob”:http://opensoundneworleans.com/ and “Ariella”:http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/viewFeature.cfm?recid=1167 down to the “United Houma Nation”:http://www.unitedhoumanation.org/?q=node/74. The team from the “Beacons of Hope”:http://www.lakewoodbeacon.org/?page=volunteer went down in their truck to UHN Headquarters. I encourage anyone who see’s the Wetlands as a major issue to take a ride down and see what we are losing. Because when […]