re: LSU Considers South Campus Annexation

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Thanks for this answer. I'll ignore the other.

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I won't.

Are you under the impression that a location has to be within the city limits of a city for that address to use that city's name as its address?

I didn't understand what you meant when you asked why the L'b casino uses Baton Rouge as its city address since it is not in the city.

Almost all of the St George addresses now use Baton Rouge as their city and none of them are in the city limits of Baton Rouge.

Sorry if I hurt your feelings.

I was under the impression that some current areas of the proposed St. George were within the BR city limits.

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Sorry if I hurt your feelings.

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You didn't.

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LSU needs to stay out of politics.

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I agree, but that has never happened before and I doubt it will happen now.

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By getting into the annexation discussion they are choosing sides.

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I can see where having part of its campus property in two cities could create some logistical problems. Traffic issues, building permit issues, public works support issues, having two different sets of politicians to give football tickets to....that sort of thing.

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I notice that the annexation stops just short of Gardere. Why does Baton Rouge want to exclude that area with a high concentration of African Americans from all of the benefits of being Baton Rouge residents?

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Poodle, you keep weighing in in these SG threads and your lack of knowledge of BR laws and regulations is evident. Don't you live in the Monroe area?

But to answer your question, there are two different processes used under the EBR ordinance for annexing property into the city.

One process is for primarily residential property and one process is for primarily commercial or primarily undeveloped land.

The LSU property is mostly undeveloped property and of course the casino is commercial property.

The Gardere area you refer to is primarily residential. To include the Gardere area into this specific annexation move, it would require two different processes to accomplish.

Also, are you under the impression Baton Rouge is currently underrepresented by African Americans in its census?

St George "leaders" are going to use petty tactics to threaten and boycott businesses who try to opt out of paying them extra taxes.

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LSU would have a significant interest in ensuring its campus was all in one city and not spread out over two, one of which has ever-fluctuating tax estimations

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Correct. There are entities that do pay taxes (both sales and property) that exist on campus and in their southern acreage.

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St George "leaders" are going to use petty tactics to threaten and boycott businesses

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Maybe some of those rich white folks in St George will give up their prime LSU football season tickets as a protest against LSU and then us po' folks will finally have a chance to sit on the 50 yard line.

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It's hilarious that people think the city is behind this and that LSU isn't pushing for it.

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The paranoia of the SG supporters on this board is unlimited.

I live off Perkins Rd. in unincorporated East Baton Rouge Parish. I was opposed to St. George originally, but I am swinging against Baton Rouge. Baton Rouge wants to preserve the current separate and unequal status that works to its benefit. It is offensive that Baton Rouge will not address the legitimate concerns of the St. George area residents, and reacts with efforts to punish rather than ameliorate.

My post was a backhanded jab at those who made national headlines by claiming the real purpose of the St. George incorporation effort is to separate an affluent, more white community, from the more African American Baton Rouge. My deliberately exaggerated outrageous injection of racial issues will not get anywhere near the same attention, but it is no less valid than those who raised it as reason for opposition to St. George. Procedural differences in the annexation don't matter when using Alinski tactics. Why rain on my provocation with boring things like laws?

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They didn't care before, so why now? The answer is obviously bc of St. George

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Well yea. There wasn't a need with the unincorporated area because it was governed by the same council and mayor-president.