What will the actual boundaries of St. George be?

How does st George plan to keep the trash out is the better question to me. Out price them only works for so long.

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The proposed boundaries were originally all of the unincorporated area of Baton Rouge. The rumor is that the boundaries will shrink for the next petition drive in order to have less signatures needed to collect. Once the city is created neighborhoods could be annexed into St. George

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St. George is never going to happen. The political power in Baton Rouge will never let it happen.

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Heavily disagree.

The "leaders" of the St. George movement were both dumb and naive. However, they tapped into something powerful. The support for St. George is only going to get stronger and you can get better/more prepared leaders.

The "political power" in Baton Rouge has played their biggest cards and no longer has the element of surprise.

Only real hurdle at this point is a federal lawsuit. So they better get some good legal advice.

Can they just pick a better name?

St. George is stupid

South Baton Rouge

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The "leaders" of the St. George movement were both dumb and naive. However, they tapped into something powerful. The support for St. George is only going to get stronger and you can get better/more prepared leaders

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I wouldn't say they were "dumb" more like not very smart when it came to playing politics, and yes they were definitely naïve.

Many were just good old boys wanting what's best for children, and not realizing how city hall and the status quo would fight back so hard.

I agree, they definitely need some good legal advice to navigate through the impending storm.

Since the last effort was made, things haven't gotten better; they have gotten worse. The school test scores have declined despite assurance the new supt. would make a difference.

And now you have racial strife when there use to be very little. The Sterling thing blew things wide open, and then the ambush of the cops by an extremist made it much worse.

I'm not blaming Broome here. She isn't at fault other than she was a leader in the legislature opposing St. George as an ISD and she was one of the ones telling them they needed to form a city before they came back to the legislature with another proposal for an ISD.

I hope the woman does a great job, but some of her "advisors" leave a lot to be desired. Alienating the cops right now wasn't smart either. It will be interesting to see if the status quo gets upset if she keeps going left.

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That's not correct, it's only the incorporated areas south and east of the present BR city limits.

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What about the unincorporated areas S & SE of BR?

I believe the proposed city of St. George basically combined the St. George and East Side Fire Districts.

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I believe the proposed city of St. George basically combined the St. George and East Side Fire Districts.

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I think that's basically true if not completely true.

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I live inside city limits.

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I thought you might, but I always felt you were open and not an us v them type.

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I also live in that specially gerrymandered CATS tax bullshite tax district.

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That was scary, and set a bad precedent. I wasn't directly impacted, but have relations that pay, but what they did was wrong.

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I haven't re-litigated all the issues surrounding St. George yet, and am eager to do so in the coming months. Hopefully Mayor Broome will figure out how to appease everyone. I am regretfully pessimistic (and I voted for her). Let's just say I am more open to St. George than I was, but waiting to see both the actions of the mayor and a concrete proposal.

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I'm surprised you voted for her, but Bodi was a terrible candidate. I gave him some support, but when I met him I was disappointed. Very disappointed.

I'd still take a compromise(no city but an ISD); but let's give the lady a shot. Maybe she's just placating her base and will move to the center. It doesn't appear to be that way, but we'll see soon.

She's got a police chief to hire, a CFO to hire and other departments need leaders. She inherited the Sterling thing, the Tram, the Train, Green Light II, Sewer (just saw our sewer TAX going up 4%), and the huge traffic and school issues which impact the city-parish.

If all she does is help people in NBR at the expense of SBR it will be a long four years. If she pisses off the Foundation crowd it will be even longer.