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Posted on November 26 at 2:05 p.m.

I wonder if any of the people who are against TNDs have ever been to one. I lived in Memphis for 8 years and there was a TND near downtown called Harbour Town. This was one of the most successful and popular developments in the entire city. A few years ago, when the lots for the last phase went on sale, people literally camped out at the office where lots were being sold. If a TND like this were to be built in my back yard, I would sell my house and buy one in the TND. Imagine getting home from a busy day and being able to walk to dinner or walk to rent a movie. Imagine being able to walk to a grocery store or being able to walk to a park. That's something that you can do in a traditional neighborhood development. If I try to walk to a grocery store in my standard Baton Rouge neighboorhood, I will have to walk 1 mile along a very busy road that doesn't have sidewalks. Other cities have been building TNDs for many years with tremendous sucess. Yet, developers in Baton Rouge keep building the plain undesireable neighborhoods. People live in them because they have no other option. We need TNDs in Baton Rouge.

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