Im, quite frankly, pretty uncomfortable with it. Were still issuing permits as we speak, Nagin said Friday as he discussed the recommendations with Blancos 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 organizations 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
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.
(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