New Orleans council override mayor's veto of Katrina trailer law

AP via NOLA ^ | 12/15/2005 | KEVIN McGILL

[CajunConservative]

Have you actually seen any of those trailer parks???? They cram as many travel trailers as they can in a very small space. Let's just say that if they can plan a little bit before throwing folks haphazardly in areas things will go better in the long run.

Now my cousin owns an RV park and some of his buildings were severely damaged from Rita so he just plowed them down and stuck more FEMA trailers there. He's real happy at the moment because he is making a killing after a very slow summer. Most of his tenants are decent hard working people though not the folks NOLA has to deal with.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

"The government in Louisiana will force a recalibration of the "incompetence in government" scale."

The scale should be open-ended and logarithmic; like the Richter scale for earthquakes. Open-ended, because we don't know what the upper limits are. Logarithmic, so that the numbers would fit on a page.

[razorback-bert]

Strongarm er Armstrong Trailer Park and Crack Mall.

[WasDougsLamb]

Do you ever get the impression they are all working together against the residents?


----It seems like that, doesn't it.

[heldmyw]

I don't know if the Council isn't doing the smart thing...

The folk who have insurance and are rebuilding are doing so without relying on FEMA or the public dole (mostly). These are the taxpaying citizens who planned and protected themselves. Furthermore, they still believe in the city. If they needed temporary housing, they probably borrowed, bought or leased a mobile home or RV.

So, who is going to be occupying these trailers? Is this an "instant ghetto"? An area to be populated by the sort of population that N.O. really doesn't need or want back? The impoverished underclass that makes a profession out of living on public assistance?

NIMBY, indeed. Why would you want to attract people who are a drain on your resources, a source of crime, (and all of the other attendant problems)... unless of course, they're going to vote to keep you in office.

Right, Ray?

[H. Paul Pressler IV]

My neighborhood in New Orleans has never been and will not be a Trailer Park.

Good for the City Council to stop this insidious plan of Nagin's.

[H. Paul Pressler IV]

ping

[MissRepresent]

sure does!

[CajunConservative]

Folks are confusing NOLA with the likes of my area. My area is PROUD of their trailers. This is a redneck paradise.

Rita damage in a town north of me.

[H. Paul Pressler IV]

My old stomping and working grounds down in Buras, Empire and Venice not longer exist. No buildings, not houses, not camps not even any land!

[CajunConservative]

I was referencing the redneck part of the state. NOLA for the most part is classy outside of the ghetto areas. The town where that pic was taken is actally about 60 miles inland from where Rita slammed. That town was hit pretty hard.

I understand about the loss of land. I own property on Holly Beach and there's nothing left except the water tower. Louisiana has lost a lot this hurricane season. I wonder if the satellite pictures show just how much land was lost from the storms.

[Bogey78O]

They got a point. NEw Orleans East easily... easily has a dozen abandoned apartment properties where trailers could be set up with minimal demolition. And no one would complain that it's draging the neighborhood down.

Hell, There's a condo complex on Bundy Rd where they had people squatting in the apartments. There was simply too many for the police to effectively keep the area clear.

[Bogey78O]

It was a bonehead maneuver for anyone to approve of this. Blocking it looks petty and NIMBY though.

I say bring them to NO East.