Posted on 02/11/2006 9:46:40 AM PST by ncountylee
Algiers residents will hold a rally today to protest plans to establish a trailer park in their neighborhood that would house emergency officials and other residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
In yet another display of the not-in-my-backyard tension that has accompanied trailer placement across greater New Orleans, the residents said they fear the park will lower property values, increase traffic and bring unknown elements into the neighborhood.
"We don't know who's coming in," said Alvin Nicholas, a 30-year resident of Maumus Street, which borders the site also bounded roughly by Peony Street and Sullen Place. "I just finished paying off my house. I wouldn't want my property values to drop."
Tarence Davis, vice president of the Lower Algiers Neighborhood Association, said the trailer park would abut the backyards of several homes, making the trailers harder to see and perhaps leading to conditions that are unsafe or conducive to crime. "We're not against trailer parks and bringing people back to the city," Davis said. "We're just against this particular site."
Open green spaces, bordered by streets and not homes, would be better suited for trailers, Davis said.
The Rev. Raynard Casimier of Love Outreach Christian Church, which owns the property, said neighbors are overreacting to the plans, which would bring about 84 trailers to the property. He said he has no intentions of bowing to the outcry.
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If the trailers are allowed, we weaken our "it's all Bush's fault" whine.
I find it harder to like these people every day.
I'd be so pissed off if this happened in my neighborhood.
I've been to Algiers, and, pardon my crassness, but a freelance toxic waste dump wouldn't have much effect on property values there.
Carville never dreamed there would one day be this many trailers, I wonder how the hundred dollar bills are holding up?
What a horse's rear you are! I lived in Algiers for a number of years and still live fairly close. They have all kinds of neighborhoods, from poor to very wealthy. The broad brush you use makes you look like a idiot!
You have my sympathy.
The broad brush you use makes you look like a idiot!
Perhaps. I can only speak from my experience. What I saw of Algiers looked like something New Orleans flushed.
If it's any consolation, I thought much of the French Quarter looked the same.
My, my how progressive. I'm sure all of the Algiers residents who voted Democrat their entire lives will feel much better for it.
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