Daiquri Island
May 24 Island Update
Times Picayune reporting murder and shooting at Daiquri Island
ISLAND UPDATE
I spent a considerable amount of time yesterday discussing Zoning on Daiquri Island. Since the Zoning is Light Industrial, they are able to build this addition because the Parking regulation for this type of establishment is 3 spaces.
I have seen 20 or more cars parked on Earhart at night, spilling across the street to other business owned by the same proprietor. This is a bar we may want to keep our eye on to avoid spill over into the Neighbor.
There have been multiple meetings in regards to the Design of the Walgreens/ Roberts at the corner of Carrollton and Claiborne. Since there seems to be such wide community interest in that development I thought there may be a similar interest in what is happening on the other end of the Neighborhood.
Earhart Blvd. has long suffered from poor planning and design.
Here is a photo of some questionable new construction.
The cinderblock building is located in the Parking Lot. Which begs the question, Where do the patrons park?
In other Cities where there have been massive disasters there is a flurry of Post Disaster building, some shanties, some businesses hoping to build and not get caught. And some legitimate residential and commercial neighbors who want to create something better than before.
We are going to spend the next decade dealing with these issues.
While we were mouring the loss of our City shortly after the Hurricane ,many felt that the future in New Orleans would be a brighter,cleaner smarter City
Those early days of hope are gone, replaced with a nagging sense that we are in stasis, and looking in the wrong direction.
Ask your self this question,What does it mean to rebuild a City? Remove the bricks and morter from this scenario and ask yourself again, What does it take to rebuild a City? I suggest it involves transparency,strict code enforcement,partners with law enforcement, timely and accurate information from ALL City and State agencies and continued dialog with out leaders.
As long as we have agencies that do not enforce the rules, we will have residents and leaders exploiting them for their own gain.