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BR Business Report:Building a better Baton Rouge begins with addressing climate risks
Posted on 9/21/22 at 3:39 pm
Posted on 9/21/22 at 3:39 pm
This article was ill-timed..
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For Business Report’s 40th anniversary edition, we asked nine community leaders and young professionals how Baton Rouge can fulfill its potential as an economically thriving midsized city. Below is an excerpt from Center for Planning Excellence President and CEO Camille Manning-Broome’s essay:
As a city planner, a Baton Rouge native, and a parent, I spend a lot of time thinking about the future of this place that I love. I worry about building a safe, healthy community where all residents can thrive, and where newcomers can find plentiful opportunities. I want to leave behind a strong and resilient city, where my kids and grandkids can enjoy a vibrant, productive life. Baton Rouge, if we are to achieve all this, we first must understand our history, our current challenges and our future opportunities.
Over the past 40 years Baton Rouge’s population has grown by 200%, our infrastructure has expanded throughout the parish and new developments have continued to proliferate on the periphery. We have grown into a bustling, culturally rich, midsized Gulf Coast city—and our challenges around flood risk, poverty, congestion, water resources, and infrastructure maintenance have grown as well. Looking ahead to the next 40 years, I feel a deep responsibility to ensure that my two children inherit a city that’s better than the one I grew up in—but the planning and development patterns we’ve established are not going to get us there. Providing a bright future for all of our kids requires understanding our past, being clear-eyed about our challenges and working together to create a climate-resilient, economically equitable place where the next generation can thrive.
We have once-in-a-generation opportunities within our reach to create the future that so many of us have envisioned for Baton Rouge: a city that is resilient, safe, inclusive, and economically thriving; with walkable, bikeable neighborhoods characterized by a special sense of place and a wide variety of opportunities that brings in (and retains) top talent. Achieving this vision will also require doing something difficult, courageous and necessary: addressing the risks we face as a city on the front lines of climate change.
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Posted on 9/21/22 at 3:41 pm to Murray
quote:Yehhhh frick all the crime and murder, we gotta get the environment right, then all will be well.
Building a better Baton Rouge begins with addressing climate risks
Posted on 9/21/22 at 3:41 pm to Murray
I think it begins with taking out your trash. Figuratively and literally.
Posted on 9/21/22 at 3:41 pm to Murray
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Over the past 40 years Baton Rouge’s population has grown by 200%,
Say what???
Posted on 9/21/22 at 3:42 pm to Murray
if they mean crime climate, they are spot on
Posted on 9/21/22 at 3:42 pm to Murray
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BR Business Report:Building a better Baton Rouge begins with addressing climate risks
Yes. Let's address the climate. Will an electric car prevent an LSU student from getting murdered at a stop light?
Posted on 9/21/22 at 3:43 pm to Murray
I challenge climate to a duel. It’s time to end this now.
Posted on 9/21/22 at 3:47 pm to Murray
We talking about climate change like gusts of lead coming up Government?
Posted on 9/21/22 at 3:48 pm to Murray
Climate and statues. Winning combination.
Posted on 9/21/22 at 3:48 pm to Murray
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a city that is resilient, safe, inclusive,
Who isnt allowed to live in BR?
Posted on 9/21/22 at 3:49 pm to Murray
When I drive done Government Street I'm not looking over my shoulder for climate change if you know what I mean.
Posted on 9/21/22 at 3:49 pm to Murray
What pretentious a-hole said that?
Posted on 9/21/22 at 3:54 pm to Murray
God Dammit. the media is sooo full of shite.
Posted on 9/21/22 at 3:54 pm to Murray
shite article is shite
Posted on 9/21/22 at 3:55 pm to Murray
What does the St. George Business Report say?
Posted on 9/21/22 at 3:57 pm to Murray
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We have once-in-a-generation opportunities within our reach to create the future that so many of us have envisioned for Baton Rouge: a city that is resilient, safe, inclusive, and economically thriving; with walkable, bikeable neighborhoods characterized by a special sense of place and a wide variety of opportunities that brings in (and retains) top talent. Achieving this vision will also require doing something difficult, courageous and necessary: addressing the risks we face as a city on the front lines of climate change.
I wish I got paid to drone on and on about a bunch idealistic horseshite that has no chance of being implemented
Posted on 9/21/22 at 3:58 pm to Murray
quote:even without crime who wants to do this in 95 degree weather with 90% humidity?
walkable, bikeable neighborhoods
Posted on 9/21/22 at 4:12 pm to Murray
Posted on 9/21/22 at 4:12 pm to Murray
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working together to create a climate-resilient, economically equitable place where the next generation can thrive.
Watermelon environmental policy - green on the outside, but always red in the middle.
Posted on 9/21/22 at 4:17 pm to Murray
It gets worse….read the PM Newsletter to see how Broome and the BR Chamber plan to steal, eh, use $1.8 million:
BR Business Report
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1.Re/Connect to Jobs: This initiative would help job seekers find available positions by hosting job fairs with additional services to help people with barriers to employment. The initiative would also include marketing to potential job seekers and reaching out to unemployed or underemployed individuals to help them through the job search process.
2. Youth Workforce Initiative: This initiative will prepare and better retain talent through real-work experiences while students are in high school, community college, or at a university, by connecting them with paid internship opportunities. The program will target industry sectors that were disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, such as construction, manufacturing, hospitality, health care and small business.
3. National recruitment of tourists and talent: This initiative is a comprehensive effort to get people to come to Baton Rouge for work or to visit. The program would involve coordinated marketing campaigns, resources for learning about Baton Rouge and integration with the online job portal to drive people toward available jobs. According to Broome’s announcement, Visit Baton Rouge and BRAC are collaborating on an integrated external marketing strategy to promote quality of life and job opportunities in Baton Rouge for prospective talent, drive greater visitation to the market, and highlight career opportunities in the region through the BR Works regional jobs portal.
BR Business Report
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