NorthWest Carrollton

This looks a lot like what we had, but worse.

I grew up in the lower 9th Ward (Ward 9-Precinct 1) in a small, raised, clapboard house built in 1959. Everything except Jackson Barracks was “uptown” from us. Uptown was where “rich people” lived. So when I saw the beautiful brick houses shaded and surrounded by large oak trees (Lafitte, Iberville, etc.) I naively assumed that this must be where the rich people lived. The houses seem so much nicer, on so many levels, than mine, including being close to where the other rich people lived and cool places like Canal Street and the French Quarter.

I went to college at UNO (78-83) and daily drove past the “Desire project”. Never once did it cross my mind that rich people lived here. Desire was torn down and, preKatrina had already begun to be replaced by smaller single and double houses. In 2004 as I drove to UNO for graduate classes, New Desire was beginning to look like it could be a nice place to live.

I drive my daughter to school past CJ Peete. I look at these sturdy brick buildings surrounded by lovely oak trees and wonder just what it is that makes these buildings unredeemable. Our current house was built in 1929. CJPeete’s buildings were built in 1941. I know how solid the foundational construction is in these older buildings. I also know how fast we were able to get back in our home post Katrina because of these construction features.

I drive to UNO from my job at Chalmette Refining to UNO to pick my daughter up from her Japanese lesson, past “New Desire”. I look at how these new construction homes survived the ravages of Katrina, the Corps induced flooding and PostK neglect and compare them in my mind to CJ Peete and Lafitte. And folks, from my truck window, there is no comparison. CJPeete and Lafitte look like move in condition. New Desire homes look devastated and fragile in comparison and like they need much more work.

Anyone looking for easy answers and quick fixes should NOT be in New Orleans. Sure it sounds great to say tear it down and build a new one. But this is an easy answer and does not take into consideration or respect our history and the complexities of the situation. We need to stop the rush to demolition. We need to stop the dangerously hypnotic mantra and PostK desert mirage of “redevelopment”. We need instead to start talking to each other in real, open, meaningful venues, not shouting matches and not overly organized and facilitated into meaninglessness public meetings. We need to honor our past while securing our future and we need to realize that there are no easy answers. The answers that will serve us best take time and care; the same type of time and care that make our historic New Orleans buildings, be they CJPeete or shotgun in Black Pearl or a raised bungalow in Carrollton, valuable. If members of congress from California and Nevada can figure this out, then our local leaders should be able to as well.

Jenel Hazlett
I’ve been told by NWCCA’s Vice President, Karen Gadbois, that I need to blog more. Since I respect and appreciate Karen’s influence in my life more than I can say… I decided to listen to her advice. Look for future posts under the “President’s Rant” category.

Another great Go Zone project in Baton Rouge

The Upscale Mall that our suffering built

Baton Rouge is doing pretty well with this program.

On Wednesday, the Bond Commission depleted the competitive pool. About $843 million in borrowing is left in the hardest-hit pool.

In the Baton Rouge area, the commission approved:
* $45 million for a Coca-Cola Bottling Plant under construction near Baton Rouge Metro Airport.
* Up to $35 million for Celtic Management Corp.’s North Winston Avenue film studio and media center near Coursey Boulevard.
* Up to $60 million for Stupp Bros. Inc.’s spiral weld pipe mill. The Ronaldson Road facility near the intersection of Scenic Highway and Thomas Road will produce large diameter light wall pipe.
* Up to $20 million to build a 90,000-square-foot office building.
* Up to $10 million to build a Southern Ionics Incorporated chemical manufacturing facility on Airline Highway near the Huey P. Long Bridge in Baton Rouge.
* Up to $250 million for Perkins Rowe, a retail, office, residential and hotel complex at the corner of Bluebonnet Boulevard and Perkins Road.
* Up to $75 million for the II City Plaza 280,000-square-foot office building and 700-car parking garage.
* Up to $4.5 million for a new headquarters office building for Starmount Life Insurance Co. at Goodwood Boulevard and Connell’s Park Lane.
* Up to $7.5 million to renovate Price LeBlanc Lexus dealership on Airline Highway.

And our Governor elect thinks it is a good thing

People aren’t looking for a handout. They want to go back to work. You know, one of the most effective programs down here has been a GO Zone program that has reduced taxes, given tax-advantaged treatment for people that want to invest down here.

The Go Zone looks to me a lot like legalized patronage.

Because of course Walgreens had to push their way to the front of the trough, and build a store we did not want.

They even attempted to make it seem that they were doing us a favor by bringing in some live entertainment in the way of Richard Petty

They could have had a local musical guest or someone or something that people in this area actually enjoy, but I guess the suits in Illinois think that because we are in the South we all watch cars driving around in a circle.

Just perusing this list is enough to make your blood boil. The Culture of Corruption is La. has been replaced by the Culture of Corporate Greed.

Where is the Grocery Store??

While we still wait news of what Retail we can expect at the Carrollton Shopping Center/dump site, Feil, the owner of the site has announced plans to build in Jefferson Parish.

Jeffrey Feil of the Feil Organization, which owns Lakeside, said Monday that Macy’s may develop a free-standing store on the Veterans Memorial Boulevard side of the mall. A parking garage is already under construction in the same vicinity.

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Our discussion with Macy’s is terrific news for the parish as a whole,” Feil said.

But not such great news for this Parish.

Please share this message from the Corps’ Louisiana Recovery Field Office with your association members, friends, family and others who might need this information. Thanks! Michael Logue, Public Affairs Mission Manager, LA-RFO

• CORPS ORLEANS DEBRIS MISSION ENDS AUGUST 29

To our friends in the neighborhoods of New Orleans:

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has set September 29 as the last day of operations for the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Louisiana Recovery Field Office (LA-RF0), with debris work in Orleans Parish coming to an end August 29.

Debris removal operations will transfer to the City of New Orleans on August 29 with the expiration of Corps/FEMA interagency agreements for Orleans Parish on the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

FEMA has also indicated that the LA-RFO will receive no additional demolition assignments after September 1 to allow Corps contractors to complete the work within their 30-day contract clause.

We have been asked to return demolitions remaining after September 29 to the City of New Orleans for local action under the FEMA Project Worksheet Program which reimburses local governments for eligible work and administrative costs.

The citizen drop-off site at Crowder Avenue will close the week of August 29. We will keep the Elysian Fields (Florida) drop off site open until September 29.

In Jefferson and St. Bernard parishes, where our work is focusing on clean up of private property debris and canals, respectively, we expect operations to be complete by September 29.

In times of disaster, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers assumes a predetermined set of FEMA emergency responsibilities to restore essential public services and facilities.

The Corps’ FEMA role is clear and terminal: to set the stage for communities to get back on their feet. The National Response Plan dictates that, once FEMA has determined that state and local governments are able to manage the remaining work with FEMA funding and technical assistance, our recovery volunteers go home.

We completed the following missions in early 2006 using a Corps workforce that peaked at 1,700: emergency ice and water, 310 temporary critical facilities, power generation, mortuary center construction, disposal of 50 million pounds of rotting meat, housing site evaluations, and 81,000 roof repairs under Operation Blue Roof.

By September 29, we expect to have removed, recycled or processed almost 29 million cubic yards of debris, enough to fill the Superdome 7-8 times, demolished about 8,000 structures, and cleaned up almost 70,000 private properties in south Louisiana.

The debris mission involving right of way pick up is now but a sliver of the peak of almost 200,000 cubic yards per day. Our debris pick up requirements have fallen to about 3% of that total, or about 6,000 cubic yards per day. One truck can carry about 40 cubic yards.

Our experts have been assisting FEMA and the City of New Orleans for several months with technical coaching and assistance to help maintain recovery momentum using City contracts and in-house services.

Our contracts will also end with contract companies familiar on area streets such as Phillips and Jordan, ECC, Ceres, and others who brought an estimated team of 100,000 to the area disaster response.

The LA-RFO is a temporary entity separate from long-term Corps operations such as the New Orleans District and Hurricane Protection Office. The work of those Corps sister elements to rebuild the area will continue unchanged. www.mvn.usace.army.mil

For more information on the Louisiana Recovery Field Office, visit the LA-RFO web site at www.faceofthecorps.com We will update the site with new information related to our deactivation.

If you have questions about the deactivation of the Louisiana Recovery Field Office as it relates to your property, just reply to this e-mail and we will get you an answer very quickly.

If you have debris that needs to be picked up or need instructions on scheduling a demolition, you can continue to call the New Orleans debris hotline 311 or 504-658-2299.

For two years, we ‘white shirt’ Corps of Engineers volunteers have answered numerous historic, unparalleled missions, engaging about 10% of the Corps’ worldwide team as volunteers in Louisiana alone. Over 3,500 Corps of Engineers volunteers from around the world have answered FEMA’s call for response and recovery operations in 40 parishes across South Louisiana following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

It has been our distinct honor as a team and as individuals to serve the inspirational citizens of Orleans Parish in their historic effort to recover from Hurricane Katrina.

From our entire Corps recovery team, thank you for your support, patience, hospitality, and, above all your courage, that has daily inspired us to overcome the challenges we faced daily in this unprecedented recovery field.

Best wishes to each of you on your continued efforts to build a better, greater City of New Orleans.

Michael D. Smith
Director, Louisiana Recovery Field Office
New Orleans, Louisiana
www.faceofthecorps.com

CAL. NO. 26,522 - BY: COUNCILMEMBER
MIDURA - An Ordinance to provide for the
establishment of a Conditional Use to
permit an accessory parking lot in an
RD-2 Two Family Residential District, on
Square 343, Lots 9, 10 and 11, in the
Seventh Municipal District, bounded by
South Claiborne Avenue, Nelson, Dublin
and Dante Streets (Municipal Address:
8205 South Claiborne Avenue); and
otherwise to provide with respect
thereto. (ZONING DOCKET NO. 24/07)

Read the article

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.

The following speech was read at the May 3rd City Council Meeting when the Accessory Parking Lot, CPC Report and BZA decision was endorsed by City Council. All Carrollton & New Orleans residents should be aware of what is taking place on this corner. Anyone interested in contacting our Council Representative, Shelley Midura, regarding this issue can contact her via Email at smidura@cityofno.com or via phone at 658-1010.

The board of NorthWest Carrollton would like to respectfully request that this matter be deferred until the next City Council meeting.

We want to believe that our issues and concerns can be addressed in a civil and organized fashion and be successfully resolved. Marc Robert has everything he needs to go ahead with the construction of his grocery store. This parking lot issue can be resolved as the primary development progresses. We are not attempting to “hold up construction” of the grocery store and resent the implication by Council Member Midura’s staff that this is the case. We have been consistently told that the grocery store and the parking lot were 2 SEPARATE issues. Now the implication is that one can not proceed without the other. Which is true?

We are simply working citizens who have repeatedly taken time off from their jobs to attend City Council meetings, CPC meetings and to meet separately with CPC and our Council member. We have been put through the grinder of city practices and protocols without the aid of the legal representation developers can afford and with very little assistance from anyone in city government on how to manage this maze. We have asked that the entire site plan for Roberts & Walgreens be developed holistically. It the fall of 2006 this it was even announced in the newspaper that would be the case. Yet there was a separate CPC processes for the primary Roberts development. The accessory parking lot at issue today was handled as multi-phase and convoluted conditional use grant, the CPC process and now this Council process. Walgreens has been handled separately because they agreed, under duress, to follow city ordinances. This is not the definition I have of holistic development.

1) More than a year ago during the many meetings and discussions held regarding the Roberts & Walgreens development we told Council Member Midura and Marc Robert that we were opposed to the conversion of residential property to commercial.

2) In the fall of 2006 Council Member Midura introduced a “Conditional Use” for this property “as an accessory parking lot”. The accessory parking was to be for employees only. This was done with out any discussions or notice to the citizens who had repeatedly communicated concerns over the intrusion of commercial space into the neighborhood, When the conditional use issue was first introduced we asked what we could do next. We were told “Nothing, it is done”. This was not completely true. It turned out that there was a CPC process. But even after the CPC process, what we were told yesterday makes it look like there really was nothing we could do to influence the process. Should ordinary citizens need lawyers to allow them to interact with the city government we elect and pay for?

3) In August of 2006, When the “compromise” was announced and Walgreens agreed, under duress, to follow the city’s zoning laws, a “design review board” was created. Never once, before yesterday evening, was any mention made of using this space as a storage facility. This design review board has not met consistently and has not addressed the concerns of the residents. It has only enabled the developers. It has been essentially a farce. We have only been asked what color lipstick we want on the pig. Although I’ll agree it appears that for the Walgreens & Roberts primary development it appears to be nice lipstick.

4) When the provisos were being worked for Roberts primary development we repeatedly told CPC that the citizens of the neighborhood were more inclined to grant Roberts waivers on the number of parking spaces required than to have this residential space used as a parking lot. We also indicated this at the meetings held during the initial Walgreens & Roberts placement discussions. This does not ever seem to have been an option.

5) At the April 10 CPC hearing on this issue there were a number of provisos attached to the use of this site as a parking lot. The space, that we are now being told will house a large storage facility, was referred to as green space. CPC report even goes so far as to recommend that this remaining green space be offered to the residential property owners impacted by the creation of a parking lot. No mention is made of a storage facility.

6) Immediately after April 10th CPC hearing we met with CPC and reviewed our remaining concerns over the accessory parking lot with them. We were told that these concerns were “minor” and could be addressed by Council Member Midura. We wanted this to be the case. We arranged a meeting with Council Member Midura last week. When we advised Ms Midura that the parking lot was to be used for both employee and customer parking, she indicated surprise. When we expressed our concerns regarding appropriate fencing and security on the “green space” no mention was made of a storage facility. We have repeatedly asked CPC, Ms Midura, Marc Robert, the design review committee to ensure that after hours this parking lot would be free of cars and secured. On Tuesday, because we had heard nothing from Council Member Midura regarding our concerns we respectfully requested that this matter be deferred. Yesterday in an afternoon phone call from Ms Midura’s staff one of our board members was told that the matter would not be deferred, our concerns were not going to be addressed in advance of this meeting and to add insult to injury that a storage facility, one not mentioned in any CPC report or to the design review committee, was to be built on the site

Given that, during our meeting with Ms Midura last week, we asked and she indicated it was possible to add an amendment which would cause the entire property under discussion today to be remideated back to green space should the Robert development prove non-viable; the last minute revelation of a storage shed was a bit of a shock. We want a grocery store. We do not want the intrusion of commercial space into the heart of a residential block. The space that we are now told will house a storage facility plunges like a knife into the middle of a residential block and abuts 5 residential properties. There are too many unresolved issues to charge ahead.

So again we respectfully request that this matter be deferred until the next City Council meeting. Council Member Midura was sent Emails this morning from the president of Central Carrollton Association and member of the design review board supporting our request and concerns. Ms Midura was also sent support from Claiborne-University.

I would also request that this Council cause CPC to issue a revised report including the revelations uncovered yesterday regarding use of the “green space” for a storage facility and this revised report be reviewed at CPC meeting before this issue comes before City Council. We want to believe that the CPC was sold a “pig in a poke” and may not have recommended for approval of the conditional use if they had known that the green space which abuts 5 residential properties would not stay green. We would prefer not to have to put lipstick on yet another pig.

Sale Price: $280,000
Gross Land Area: 5,400 SF

Max J Derbes Realty has this land listed under it’s commercial division. This property is Zoned RD 2.

I spoke with the listing agent today and advised him that we were an active organization and would not support the conversion of residential to commercial.

Helm Paint has opened a new store on Earhart and Carrollton. Yesterday I went in for, of all things, paint.
It was the grand opening and this Saints player was signing footballs.

I knew he was a Saint cause he wasn’t signing baseballs.

But who is he?

Yesterday afternoon Mr. Chills Barber Shop opened on Carrollton at Apricot.

Mr. Chill had the whole family there including his Dad.

3 Generations pose for a photo.

And the Barber Chair gets broken in.

To read more click here

While we wholly support the Roberts Fresh Grocery project, we are not happy withthe way that Walgreens has treated this Neighborhood. The conversion of Residential Space to Parking lots. The refusal to budge on issues related to traffic, and general “good neighbor” policies, make this project a tedious nightmare.

The BZA HEaring that was scheduled for Nov. has once again been postponed till December.

Request:

This request is to allow construction of a 15,218 square foot full service grocery store and

delicatessen with insufficient (1) minimum depth of front yard on Nelson St., (2)

minimum depth of side yard setback on Dublin St., and (3) number of required off-street

loading spaces.

Requested Waivers:

Section 5.6 (Table 5.F) — Minimum Depth of Front Yard (Nelson St.):

Required: 20’ Proposed: 0 Waiver: 20’

Section 5.6 (Table 5.F) — Minimum Depth of Side Yard (Dublin St.):

Required: 10’ Proposed: 0’ Waiver: 10’

Section 15.3 (Table 15.G) — Number of Off-Street Loading Spaces:

Required: 2 Proposed: 1 Waiver: 1

CAL. NO. 26244 BY: COUNCILMEMBER MIDURA
An Ordinance to temporarily suspend the requirement for a Conditional Use for accessory parking in an RD-2, Two Family Residential District, for the property located at the corner of South Claiborne Avenue and Dublin Street, only for the purposes of permitting this property to be used for accessory parking for the grocery store and drug store to be constructed on the square bounded by South Claiborne Avenue, South Carrollton Avenue, Dublin Street and Nelson Street; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.

Passed by City Council 6-0 on October 5th, 2006

Shelley, you were told explicitly and repeatedly that our neighbors and your constituents in NorthWest Carrollton were vehemently opposed to the conversion of any residential properties to commercial. NorthWest Carrollton Board members were in your office on Monday October 2nd indicating that we were opposed to this.

We specifically and directly asked if any items associated with the development on the corner of Claiborne and Carrollton were going to be on the Oct 5th agenda and were told they were not. Please don’t tell me this was a mistake. Given 4 NWCCA board members were in your office on Monday, there was ample opportunity to advise us of your intent.

A neighborhood review board was established in August 2006 to review design of the commercial development on the corner of Claiborne and Carrollton. NorthWest Carrollton had to repeatedly ask for plans for the development to be provided to the review board and to our neighborhood. The board had only one meeting, last Tuesday October 3rd, and this at the insistence of NorthWest Carrollton. One of the concessions that NorthWest Carrollton had indicated it was willing to make was to allow a variance (fewer than required) on the number of parking spaces needed. Claiborne and Carrollton is NOT the corner of Magazine and Arabella. If decisions like the one you made last Thursday were going to be made without even allowing us the ability to respectfully disagree in the public format of a City Council meeting, what was the purpose of this board?

Given the events of this week, I’d like for you to explain to me how we are to trust you to represent us? As I see it we were lied to and intentionally deceived.
Fontainebleau has members who are colleagues of the developers for Roberts and Walgreens and a mid to high socioeconomic standing. NorthWest Carrollton has no such connections with the developers and a lower socioeconomic average status. So I’d also like for you to explain how this is not socioeconomic racism.
Ethical decisions are not always the easiest ones to make. It does not take the existence of a review board to know this. Children know this, which is why they squirm when they know they are doing something wrong.

The members of the NorthWest Carrollton organization deserve an explanation regarding your actions. Please tell me what to say to them on your behalf or I’ll have no choice but to tell them what I think.

Sincerely,
Jenel Hazlett
NorthWest Carrollton

Mr. Robert has met with the Review Committee to further develop the plans for the Fresh Market on Carrollton and Claiborne. His team has requested a deferral in order to more fully develop the plans. The hearing on this matter will be held in November.

All interested parties are hopeful for compromise on this site.

Please be advised that the location of the October 9, 2006 meeting of the Board of Zoning Adjustments has been switched from City Council Chambers to the City Planning Commission conference room, located in Suite 9W03 on the ninth floor of City Hall. The meeting will be called to order at 10:00 a.m.

Dear Friends and Neighbors of the Dublin Street/Nelson Street area and all of Northwest Carrollton:

Today, I received a letter from the City Zoning Adjustment Board regarding a public hearing requested by Pivach-Perrino Realty (the owners of the vacant property on Nelson and Dublin Streets where the Canal Villere bldg is), and Robert's Fresh Market, doing business as Claiborne Fresh Market, LLC.

They have submitted plans to build a grocery store/delicatessen on the lot. (Please see attached site plans).  Unfortunately, the plans being submitted place the building directly on the corner of Nelson and Dublin Streets and not on the Claiborne/Dublin corner which is the most appropriate space for a commercial building.

Although this neighborhood has worked long and hard to get a grocery store in our area, the site plans to be presented, in no way, honor the integrity of the residential area.

As the plans read now, there will be large flat walls on the Dublin and Nelson Street sides, with a loading dock and garbage storage/pick-up area immediately on the corner of Nelson and Dublin Streets.  They also own the vacant residential lot across on the opposite corner of Claiborne and Dublin.

This placement lends itself to nothing but negative things for our neighborhood.

1) Increased traffic They are requesting that Nelson become two way for the 8100 block only. This increase of traffic will greatly effect the corner of Nelson and Carrollton which is almost impossible to pass over now not to mention it could, most certainly put the Firehouse response time in jeopardy.

2) The loading dock and garbage areas will be intrusive, noisy, and very dirty.

3) From the property lines of the residents on the 3 adjacent corners, the distance is 50ft. to the proposed commercial property. They have requested no setback. This is a very highly trafficked area now. With the addition of a loading dock, garbage storage/pickup area, and two-way traffic on Nelson Street, there will be no room for two cars to pass in each direction and no on street parking for the residents.

4) The large, flat walls will create a dangerous site barrier at the corner. Because the grocery store will be selling alcohol, the blank corner will become a place to hang around for drinkers, could become a more heavily visited drug traffic area, and will provide space for graffiti and possible other crime.

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5) The garbage storage/pickup area location will increase neighborhood trash and debris and most certainly increase the rodent population.

6) If they are allowed to rezone the residential lot on Claiborne and Dublin it will
will remain a commercial space rather than reverting back to residential in the event that the grocery store does not remain open forever. Commercial properties will continue to encroach on our residential area.

As a resident of this area, I am asking for your help in opposing the site plans as they are being presented and to demand that the commercial building be placed at the other end of the lot where it will more appropriately serve the community, collect additional tax revenue dollars from passing Jefferson Parish residents for Orleans Parish, and allow us the respect to maintain our residential status

We are not against the building of a grocery store, but in fact completely for it, just not as the site plans read now.  If we allow these requests as they are now without a fight, we not only face all the negative possibilities sited above, but also the value of the properties in the immediate surrounding area will suffer greatly.  Our City Council representative has seen alternative plans for this site, which places the store at the Claiborne/Dublin corner.  It CAN work that way.

The most effective and important thing we can do immediately as the neighborhood most impacted by this site plan is to attend the meeting at City Council Chambers on October 9th at 10:00 am to voice our opposition.  If you do not have transportation I will arrange a ride for you.  If you cannot attend the meeting, please write a letter of opposition and I will submit them to the Zoning Board.  I will be going to speak and hope that you can join me and other homeowners of the Northwest Carrollton area.

Thank you very much.  This is a great neighborhood, full of people trying to make things good again.  Please don't allow the big boxes to mandate how we will live.

Best Regards,

Debi Theobald
8200 Nelson Street