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Posted on July 20 at 1:57 p.m.

Mr. Ball,
You are correct that these subdivisions should never have been built in the center of commercially zoned property, but you are a heartless SOB to make fun of the people who made the mistake of buying homes there. Facing a Walmart Super Center on one end and a casino on the other would, and has, struck fear in the hearts of any family who made their homes in the path of this unprecedented wave of greed in our parish. I say “greed” because not enough of us seem to comprehend that more money in our city and state coffers does not translate into quality of life. Don't you think these people rue the day they decided to invest (their life savings in many cases) in the trust that some degree of development sanity in EBR would protect them, only to learn that greed rules in this parish. I don’t live in the Spring Hill/Fair Lake area, but it is clear to me that we need yet another Walmart Super Center and another casino like a hole-in-the-head. Many of these families comprise the same young professionals you and I bemoan leaving our state and city in droves. You can make fun all you want but we'll all ultimately suffer the consequences.

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