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Posted on 7/6/20 at 12:12 pm to oldskule
That area flooded in the 70s. It’s really low.
Posted on 7/6/20 at 12:13 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
Some people actually prefer not to have grass to maintain but nobody prefers the other two
Posted on 7/6/20 at 12:17 pm to Oilfieldbiology
aint just BR. Take a ride thru Broussard and Youngsville. Homes look like they are 2' below the road. They stack them in there as close as possible.
Posted on 7/6/20 at 12:20 pm to oldskule
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the council voted unanimously to allow the development with fierce opposition.
May as well not have a city council because the builders get to do what they want to anyway. It is a pattern of behavior that never ceases to amaze me. What do they think is going to happen when you build every new house 10 feet above the existing houses and all you do is build a retention pond (which really is just a cheap way to build the land up) which you were going to have to do anyway.
Posted on 7/6/20 at 12:24 pm to Cosmo
Curious question. When Youngsville flooded in 2016, how did that compare with St. Martinville to your east on the Teche and Abbeville to the west on the Vermillion?
It looks like the whole area sits in a basin with a lot of smaller bayous that meander around the basin.
It looks like the whole area sits in a basin with a lot of smaller bayous that meander around the basin.
Posted on 7/6/20 at 12:25 pm to oldskule
Not to mention it is shitty construction that’ll be complete ghetto in 10 years or less.
Also, if you think the drainage is bad. Wait till you see the traffic. Those traffic studies are laughable. There will be 10 subdivisions coming up and all approved based on current traffic.
Also, if you think the drainage is bad. Wait till you see the traffic. Those traffic studies are laughable. There will be 10 subdivisions coming up and all approved based on current traffic.
This post was edited on 7/6/20 at 12:28 pm
Posted on 7/6/20 at 12:25 pm to statman34
I hate to say it, but my hometown Baton Rouge, has become a shite hole. Look at the littering, poorly managed building codes, worst traffic ever, flooding and drainage, crime rate, and so on. If it weren't for my Tigers, my family, and my job, not sure I would stay!
Posted on 7/6/20 at 12:26 pm to OleWar
The vermilion pretty much only flooded what was immediately adjacent. Youngsville flooded way worse than those areas
Posted on 7/6/20 at 12:34 pm to oldskule
The Baton Rouge Metropolitan Planning Commission is a joke. Everyone's pretty much on the take in some form or fashion. They rarely deny a developer what he wants. I remember asking my local councilman once why does he keep supporting all of the developments regardless of their impact on surrounding citizens. Why not be in opposition like your constituents? His response was he didn't want to be sued by a developer. And if what the developers proposed was "legal" and met code then there was nothing they could do, except rubber stamp them through the process.
The political machine of Baton Rouge and EBR Parish needs a complete reset.
The political machine of Baton Rouge and EBR Parish needs a complete reset.
Posted on 7/6/20 at 12:35 pm to tigerinthebueche
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Homes look like they are 2' below the road.
Better than what they are allowing in Ascension. We live in a custom home neighborhood on Hwy 73 that was built in 2000. They built a subdivision to the south of us a couple years ago that was built up 18" higher than our neighborhood. Now some of the people that live on that side (thankfully not us) have started having issues that never had a standing puddle in their yards. Its criminal what they are not only getting away with, but making an absolute killing on with not a lick of liability.
I "rescued" a family in Eagle Point on 42 that was still 4' above the water line but had a moat around it that was 10'+ deep and flooding homes around it that never saw water before.
TLDR: New neighborhoods are built up to be high and dry in Ascension, making older homes flood.
This post was edited on 7/6/20 at 12:40 pm
Posted on 7/6/20 at 12:41 pm to MaxDraft
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The Baton Rouge Metropolitan Planning Commission is a joke. Everyone's pretty much on the take in some form or fashion
I know a lot of people have strong opinions about the 5G towers and I am not going to debate one side or the other but for the purpose of illustrating what was said above, the council knew where these towers were going to go up and they had no problem with not giving homeowners a heads up if they were about to have a tower installed in their front yard. Didn't make it public and said not a word about it until people saw them getting installed. Now again, they would give you the info if you asked but since no one talked about it no one knew to ask. Just another example of rubber stamping things without the public having a true say.
Posted on 7/6/20 at 12:43 pm to shawnlsu
Ascension parish can frick themselves off a cliff. My family has been here forever and the wife and I will probably be the last ones with my last name to live on this land. We're going west. frick AP.
Posted on 7/6/20 at 12:56 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
I just can't make myself cross the river or get any closer to NOLA. Also just opened a business here, so I'm here for better or worse.
Posted on 7/6/20 at 1:13 pm to TH03
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No one actually wants to high five their neighbors from their bedroom.
Depends on what he or I has just accomplished.
Posted on 7/6/20 at 1:27 pm to shawnlsu
It looks like my job my be permanently remote. If it is I'm gone.
Posted on 7/6/20 at 2:21 pm to oldskule
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The new one at Tigerbend and Babin Road, the Sanctuary, I believe the name is. It went WAY under!
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I live 1/2 mile from there.....I witnessed the water level first hand and actually went to object to the development at a city council meeting a few years back.
Both of you are wrong, only a very small portion of the area where the subdivision is being built had water on it in 2016. Most of it was high and dry.
Posted on 7/6/20 at 2:25 pm to oldskule
wetland mitigation banks be boomin
Posted on 7/6/20 at 2:41 pm to statman34
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the council knew where these towers were going to go up and they had no problem with not giving homeowners a heads up if they were about to have a tower installed in their front yard. Didn't make it public and said not a word about it until people saw them getting installed.
Actually Matt Watson was the only council member to vote against these towers and he gave my HOA the list of where they were planning to put them so we could stop them from proceeding.
Posted on 7/6/20 at 2:43 pm to oldskule
My God, I’m an idiot.
I spent a couple of minutes trying to figure out what DRY was an acronym for.
Jeez, I be stupid.
I spent a couple of minutes trying to figure out what DRY was an acronym for.
Jeez, I be stupid.
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