Posted on 01/14/2006 7:13:18 AM PST by Libloather
Blanco won't comment on Orleans rebuilding suggestions
BATON ROUGE, La. Governor Kathleen Blanco declined to take sides today in the debate over a proposal that would stall or prevent some New Orleans residents from rebuilding their homes in neighorhoods heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
Blanco says the place for that discussion is in New Orleans, not Baton Rouge.
The planning arm of Mayor Ray Nagin's Bring New Orleans Back Commission recommended this week that no rebuilding work be done in neighborhoods hardest hit by Katrina until the areas prove they'll be viable. The idea was to ensure that enough people planned to return to those flooded-out areas to avoid isolated rebuilds among stretches of blighted and abandoned homes.
But angry residents lashed out at the proposed four-month moratorium on building permits in the city. City Council members and the New Orleans chapter of the NAACP vowed to fight the proposal.
Nagin himself is clearly not ready to endorse the plan.
The governor said local residents should work out those disagreements, noting that Nagin's commission still was hashing out its final recommendations for the city's reconstruction.
Nagin is hearing all the recommendations from his commission and will make the final decisions on rebuilding proposals later.
“I’m, quite frankly, pretty uncomfortable with it. We’re still issuing permits as we speak,” Nagin said Friday as he discussed the recommendations with Blanco’s Louisiana Recovery Authority.
And more opposition was evident when a letter to Nagin from the National Trust for Historic Preservation was released Friday.
“Preventing homeowners from taking those steps necessary to make their homes habitable would, in my view, deal a very serious blow to the recovery momentum which is now beginning to build all over the city,” the organization’s president, Richard Moe, wrote.
Proposing a 4-month moratorium on building permits displays how hypocritical the 'permit' philosophy has become.
Property rights and market forces ought to prevail in this situation. The area had been previously parceled so access to previous ownership and real property replacement already exists.
Attempting to deny all reconstruction simply opens the door to deny the most basic of property rights and deny ownership.
Next, the populace of the region need to consider who gave those in authority the power to represent them and take appropriate measures to remove them from office if they fail to represent the interests of the public.
Won't take sides until she does some polling.
Those NO neighborhoods will be Keloed out of existance all thanks to a Dem mayor and Dem gov.
Dem voters should keep that in mind next time they go to the polls.
or Nagin is not clearly himself...how much $$$$ is in it for me?
Doogle
Let them eat cake, eh Blanco?
With no elections... what does she care?
Three of the suggestions from the magazine are probably the best:
1. Create a series of water barrier gates (similar to what the city of Venice in Italy is now building) in open water that will reduce or eliminate the storm surge from the Gulf of Mexico northeast of the city.
2. Create a series of barrier walls inside the city, with particular attention to hospitals and emergency management centers. That way, instead of flooding a whole area you only flood a far smaller area.
3. Create a series of supersized under city level sewers connected to high-mounted water pumping stations, with the pumping stations having their own generators to operate independently of the power grid.
Let's see if the folks in Louisiana will take these suggestions to heart.
"Governor Kathleen Blanco declined to take sides today in the debate over a proposal. . . ."
New Orleans evacuation buses are awash in Blanco's leadership.
Actually, the New Orleans evacuation buses were awash in Nagin 's leadership.
Welcome to the wonderful world of development. Where the money sets the agenda.
These folks do not have time to replace those in authority.
There is an assault in this country on private property and something needs to be done.
Time to call a special election and throw these people out, expecially the do nothing mayor. and the entire city government. 8th graders could do better.
The social aspect will come in when they use Eminent Domain to wipe out neighborhoods and that's pure politics.
Yeah, right. This is the same group that has for years voted for the party of slavery, the KKK and Jim Crow. The same group that derides the party that was responsible for freeing their ancestors, opening up the schools(Brown vs Board) and voting to pass the civil rights act of 65.
I wouldn't expect much along the lines of good sense out of them.
(Nagin 'uncomfortable')
-----That clown is salivating at the aspect of how much money can be made off of this and how much can line his pockets. As I said before, anything him or Blanco is involved in, is self serving or it just ain't gonna happen. He has proven, as well as she has, that they DO NOT care about those people in Louisiana and those people are going to suffer until they are replaced one day. JMHO
There are no atheists in foxholes :)
Minorities hardest hit?
Nope, Blanco had to authorize the use of shelters outside the city limits of New Orleans. Nagin has no authority outside the city limits.
How quickly these new verbs enter our lexicon. {sigh}
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