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from the new orleans times picayune (PDF) map indicating :
<>areas where rebuilding allowed now
<> building moratorium until neighborhoods prove viability
<> approximate areas expected to become parks and greenspace
<> areas to be redeveloped, some with new housing for relocated homeowners ....................................................................................................................................................
Red Danger List : addresses of homes targeted for demolition
New Orleans on Thursday released to the Times Picayune the following list of 1,975 properties deemed 'in imminent danger of collapse,' and recommended for demolition by city inspectors. No timeline has been set for removal. More than 5,000 structures have received the red tags that indicate they are targets for demolition.
In previous interviews with the Times-Picayune and other media, HANO spokespeople expressed concerns about "looting," "troublemakers" and "squatters." Although it's true that there appears to have been massive theft from homes in these projects, in a recent visit to at least 20 homes that been broken into, most had their locks intact -- the apartments had been broken into by someone with keys and access. In several interviews, residents placed the robberies as having occurred within the last few weeks -- long after Mayor Nagin began urging people to return to the city, and weeks after the National Guard had finished breaking into homes to check for bodies.
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More than four months after Katrina, public housing tenants are still facing displacement and victimization. Grass-roots groups such as NOHEAT (New Orleans Housing Emergency Action Team) and advocates such as the Loyola Law Clinic and grass-roots Legal Network are calling for justice for public housing tenants, but for many residents, the city seems to be sending them a louder message -- "stay out."
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I don't know you, but Mr. Canizaro, I hate you," Harvey Bender of the Lower Ninth Ward said as he pointed his finger. "You've been in the background scheming to take our land."
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"I'm ready to rebuild. I'm not going to let you take everything. I'm ready to fight to get my property together," one man shouted from the back of the room.
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"Please let us build our own homes," said Charles Young, a homeowner in Lakeview, a largely white middle-class neighborhood. "Let us come back on our own time. Let us spend our insurance money, which we paid for on our own."
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In an exclusive Bayoubuzz online interview, U.S. Congressman Richard Baker describes his real estate-mortgage and New Orleans reconstruction plan that he has been proposing since October and which requires the vote of Congress. Many people believe it is the most comprehensive vehicle to deal with the myriad problems facing New Orleans and Louisiana and has been overwhelmingly supported by many editorials. With President Bush visiting New Orleans on Thursday and with the Mayor Nagin’s Bring Back New Orleans Commission plan for the city being released today, ironically, the interview comes at a time when President Bush’s support and the public backing of the plan is critical. Here is the BayouBuzz.com online interview with U.S. Rep. Richard Baker, R-Baton Rouge.
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President Bush is coming to New Orleans for the ninth time since Hurricane Katrina swamped South Louisiana, but Thursday's visit will be the first since he succeeded in getting $2.9 billion for levee repairs.
He will find a community profoundly grateful for the promise of stronger levees. He will find a community in the throes of recovery. He also will find many people still worried about the future.
They worry that the White House isn't committed to protecting the region from the fiercest hurricanes. They worry about whether their neighborhoods will be safe in the long run. They worry about whether they -- and their neighbors -- can afford to rebuild.
His career began in the early sixties with long forgotten bands the Rainmakers, Rockin' Vicars and Opal Butterfly. After being a roadie for guitar legend Jimi Hendrix, Lemmy joined psychedelic rock band Hawkwind in 1971, playing bass and occasionally singing. You can hear him on their 1972 'Silver Machine'.
In 1975 Lemmy was sacked from the band when he got caught in possession of drugs at the Canadian border while on tour. But a year later he had formed Motorhead, named after the last song he ever wrote for Hawkwind (and also British slang at the time for a speed freak), although Lemmy had wanted to call the band Bastard at first!
(New Orleans Has Big Rebuilding Dreams) What the resulting master plan will look like is far from clear. The mayor can accept or reject any of the recommendations, a process that could take weeks. Of course, the plan's final shape will be determined to a large degree by Congress and President Bush, because they hold the purse strings.
The commission devising a blueprint to reconstruct the city will propose on Wednesday a complete reorganization of the troubled school system, the elimination of a 76-mile shipping channel that was a prime cause of flooding after Hurricane Katrina and the creation of a new jazz district downtown.
The commission report, several members said, will also advocate building a 53-mile light-rail system crisscrossing the city, connecting neighborhoods with the airport, downtown and other commercial centers. That system would be in addition to a separate heavy-rail system that would link New Orleans with Baton Rouge and the rest of the Gulf Coast.
The light-rail system, estimated to cost $3 billion, is intended to help spark redevelopment in areas of the city that were flooded.
Toward that end, the plan calls on the city to enlist developers to build at least four communities of 1,000 or more houses at stops along the proposed light-rail lines.