re: The Baton Rouge Florida Blvd plan, what genius thinks this will work

Their entire plan reeks of Marxism.

The plan is to 'gift' so-called blighted properties to minority so -called entrepreneurs. Who decides which property is blighted? Who decides just what the meaning of blighted is? Do they take someone's property just because of the paint color of the building? Or the dated architecture of the building ? Or the length of time the building has been closed?
What happens when a business owner decides not to give his/her property away for free? If they have been paying property taxes for decades why should they give it away ? All for someone's nightmare of progress?

The plan also calls for building new sidewalks that are 4 to 6 feet wide . Who in their right mind would want to walk down the side of a major highway with tons of traffic traveling at 60 + mph ? Weekend drag racing has been a perennial problem on the section of Florida Blvd east of Cortana.

This is another version of the Government St. Road Diet Abomination and is a thinly disguised property/land grab. It is criminal.