re: GP covers St George

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m guessing because they wanted to eventually expand their own city limits and incorporate them into BR instead. Or otherwise somehow keep their grimy hands onto the resources of the parish residents.

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You do know the city of Baton Rouge literally had DECADES to expand the city limits in to what is now the "St. George" area, but chose not to do so.

Why? Two reasons:

1. For most of it's history the area now in "St. George" was the rural outskirts outside the city of Baton Rouge. Even as late as the 1980's it was relatively sparsely populated. Because of that, the city of BR didn't really care enough to try to annex that additional land into the city limits.

2. However, over the last 30+ years the area has continued to become more and more populated. BR could have annexed more of the area at any time, but didn't for ONE big reason....the people in the area were paying takes partially being used to fund public services strictly performed within the city of BR. Why would BR turn down that mailbox money? It was a great deal.

And the irony is the people within area of St. George were ok with that crappy deal as long as they could get their own school system instead of having to rely on a broken EBR school system that was continuing to decline. The powers that be in BR told those folks to "F-off! Get your own city if you want your own schools"...so they did!