@blakearcuri Drive around many rural areas and you will see properties that have sat vacant and open for decades. We are not unique. Often times is comes down to needing the resources necessary to complete projects.
@nolatechie That's fine if this out of state money is coming with their jobs. If it is just to have a "place in New Orleans" that they leave empty or airbnb it's not good. New Orleans needs population more than rising real estate prices.
The equation is stunningly simple.
The city of #NewOrleans only survives if it can maintain & grow the population.
#NewOrleansCrime threatens New Orleans future.
The population can only survive if they have good jobs.
If CityHall doesn't fix that the city can't survive.
@nolacampanella@TulaneArch@inakialday To solve vexing evacuation problems build a city with an economy that offers economic opportunity to its citizens so that they have the resources to evacuate and keep themselves safe.
Also grow the population so that the cost per person on flood infrastructure isn't out of whack
This is not a condemnation of the policy.
But does #NewOrleans have enough #COVID19 testing capacity to implement a testing/#VaccineMandate?
Is the city asking people for something that cant happen, a clean test less than 72 hours old, because the city lacks the testing capacity?
@nolacampanella This is what happens when the only thing the city has been interested in for years was, not jobs, not attracting business, not fighting crime, not fixing roads, not basic infrastructure, but finding ways to push up residential real estate prices with zoning and hdlc regulations.
@nolacampanella The push to remove the interstate comes without a lot of understanding of what would be required, what the impacts would be of 100,000 cars at ground level would be, how it would cut off NO.East from downtown and the role the elevated road plays in flood resilience.
@LouisianaGov Now, your job is to develop a plan to use our industrial infrastructure to capture as many jobs in the new energy economy as possible for our state. Precursors to solar panels, lithium from sea water for batteries, manufacturing the future.
@LouisianaGov The very first thing you need to do is develop a plan on how Louisiana, with its intense industrial sector & expansive trade infrastructure, can play a primary role in this new energy economy, that even Shell & BP recognize is coming, so we can capture those jobs.
@nolacampanella The I-10 is a road above street flooding in a city that regularly floods. And talk of taking it down ignores the 50 years of growth in NOEast.
@llupin@stephgracela Because very early on, Trump laid down a marker, basic public health vs 'the economy' by pushing denial of the virus with a lie. He chose 'the economy' though the economy will NEVER be back til the pandemic is over cause responsible people won't play along with a chance of dying
Concerned about Food Deserts in New Orleans? Land use regs prevent grocery stores.
-zoning code that closed traditional cornerstore locations
-"big box" ordinance discouraged anything like Schweggmans Gentilly
-Master Plan Future LandUse Map with almost no pure commercial zones