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Posted on November 27 at 6:26 p.m.

Spinoza could place a restrictiion against bars and liquor stores on the propety tommorrow. If he did, he would give up nothing since they would not be allowed now as the property is currently zoned. But he hasn't, because he would rent to a bar if its money is green. Also he doesn't want to prevent a future owner from using it for that. TND zoning will allow him to put a bar in there or sell the property to another for that purpose. TND zoning includes CAB1 and CAB2. That allows for alcohol sales within the TND!

Admittedly, TND does allow for other things. Does it have to be synonomous for it to happen? Does it have to be synonomous before we believe it will or might happen? If is not synonomous, I guess we can just trust Spinoza like we did on Citiplace. For that matter, I guess we can trust all future owners to not use it for that purpose too.

On Rouzan hell

Posted on November 27 at 6:09 p.m.

Rouzan's sewer water will run down into the other neighborhoods. What does Spinoza care? Make him pay to fix it first. He can't and he won't. The development will put a strain on the existing system, and he will leave the city with the bill.

This developement will have apartment buildings. There will be absentee owners and eventually they are much more likely to become run down and detract from the neighborhood. Just what LSU needs, more run-down, over-crowded, seedy neighborhoods around it to attract good professors with bad living accommodations nearby. No thank you.

Laugh at that, blue_ink_pen.

On Rouzan hell

Posted on November 27 at 5:47 p.m.

Ask the criminologists. Bars and liquor stores attract or possibly cause crime! I understand those are the only things criminologist can find that correlate to higher crime rates.

Your insults and opinions do not add to the discussion, blue_ink_pin. Address the facts.

We do not want those types of businesses where our children are suppose to be able to ride their bikes. What Spinoza says sounds good, but he is selling a false dream. Don't buy it. It is easy to make is sound good. The reality is different. Look at Citiplace. It is nothing like he said it would be.

On Rouzan hell

Posted on November 27 at 3:44 p.m.

FACTS: TND zoning allows bars and liquor stores, and this TND will be in the middle of existing family neighborhoods.

On Rouzan hell

Posted on November 27 at 3:35 p.m.

NEWS ITEM Advocate April 4, 2007:

Picture of Don Weinell, a scientist with the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, taking a water sample Tuesday from Dawson Creek near Kenilworth Parkway. The sample will be used to find out why fish died in the creek. Dead shad floating Tuesday in Dawson Creek, where the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality is testing the water to determine the cause of the fish kill.

Nine times out of 10, the DEQ's [Don Weinell] said, the cause of a fish kill is environmental factors such as high temperatures or stagnant water. But, he added, organic material such as grass clippings or SEWAGE, which decay and rob oxygen from the water, may have washed into the creek in the weekend rains.

Weinell said Dawson Creek, partly fed by Bayou Duplanier west of Kenilworth Parkway, receives a lot of drainage along its path.

I LIVE IN POLLARD, AND I SMELLED THE SEWAGE JUST BEFORE THE FISH KILL. DEAD FISH AND SEWAGE WATER - CALL ME NIMBY. THE AREA DOES NOT HAVE THE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR HIGH DENSITY DEVELOPEMENT. DON'T TRUST SPINOZA. HE WILL TAKE HIS MONEY AND LEAVE THE PROBLEMS FOR SOMEONE ELSE.

On Rouzan hell

Posted on November 20 at 5:14 p.m.

Maybe Mr. Ball lives in a lifeless neighborhood where he does not know his neighbors, but those of us in Woodchase, Southdown and Pollard Estates know ours, and that is what Spinoza will destroy.

TND will allow retail space, bars and liquor stores in existing family neighborhoods. The fat cats and politicians that talk about family values only really care about more money when it comes down to it.

They call it a "traditional neighorhood developement". That is the ruse of Rouzan. Rouzan is not the Hood, it is the Ruse. A ruse to build a strip shopping area with high density housing behind it. The shopping areas will eventually if not immediately ruin the surrounding neighborhoods for single FAMILY housing and families. TND zoning allows there to be bars, liquor stores and smut peddlers in the middle of existing single family homes where children ride their bikes. Let the newsstands, the bars (Gold Club)and the purveyors of gratuitous violence and sex (e.g. video games and newsstands) stay on the other side of Perkins Road. The bars and the liquor stores don't make you squeamish do they Mr. Ball? Who needs or wants families with children?

Southdowns is improving now that there are less rental units. Why go backwards and ruin it with rental apartments in the Ruse?

There is no commitment or restriction that there be a library, a church or the parks for the Ruse. There is already a school nearby. And another school, Glasgow Middle, will have worse flooding problems from the developement.

The ruse of Citiplace was that Spinoza said he would build a high rise garage and there would be lots of open green spaces. There is no garage and so it is all paved with specks of green space. Don't believe him and fall for his new ruse of a library, church, school and parks.

Perkins Rowe is another ruse. It looks like an industrial park with smoke stacks and warehouses. If you have a warehouse you have to convert to living space that is quaint. But why build a living space to look like an ugly warehouse with a smoke stack in front of it?

Stop the Ruse.

On Rouzan hell

Posted on November 13 at 5:48 p.m.

Against. It is in the middle of single family traditional neighborhoods. This is not Philadelphia or New Jersey. This is all about more money for Spinoza. He will say whatever it takes to make more money. It is a strip shopping center with apartment buildings (absentee owners) and dense housing. It will be zoned TND which includes liquor stores and bars (zone CAB-2) in the middle of nice existing family neighborhoods where children ride their bikes.

In Citiplace where is the high rise garage he promised and the resulting open green spaces where people can walk? He will not do what he says he will. There will be no library. He is not bound to do that.

There will be traffic and flooding. The parking lot at Glassgow Middle School already floods and this will make it worse. Pollard Estates floods along Dawson Creek and this will make that worse. His people contradict themselves. One says they will solve Glassgow by speeding up the flow of water and the other says they will solve Pollard by slowing down the flow.

Southddowns is coming back since the number of rental units has dropped. Baton Rouge is a great city with nice neighborhoods. It does not sprawl. There is plenty of vacant land close in to the city. Go out Burbank and Nicholson. This TND will not stop the people who want to move out to Livingston. Why mess the nice exiting neighborhoods with dense housing? Baton Rouge is not crowded. Why make it crowded.

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