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Man buys blighted Donaldsonville home, renovates it, & gets shut down by city
Posted on 6/28/17 at 3:25 pm
Posted on 6/28/17 at 3:25 pm
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The owner has completed a considerable amount of renovation to the property, improving a blighted house in an area with several similarly neglected properties.
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Attorney Sid Marchand, who aided Charleville in presenting his side to the Council, maintained that the property has been transformed from a blighted one to a livable historic home.
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Following a decision by the Historic District Commission on May 31, 2017, work on the property was ordered to be stopped.
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Marchand went on to say such scrutiny over repairs "discourages anybody from doing anything."
This guy is just trying to do the right thing and attempt to renovate HIS home in a blighted part of town and the city shuts him down because his improvements don't meet the Historic District Commission's standards. Stupid shite like this is why people are moving out of the city.
People wonder why small, poverty-stricken towns stay down and never pull themselves up. Shitty bureaucratic red tape bullshite like this is why.
Keep on Donaldsonvilleing, Donaldsonville.
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Posted on 6/28/17 at 3:34 pm to TDsngumbo
Well they just stopped him from putting a target on his home. Run down homes don't get robbed
Posted on 6/28/17 at 3:34 pm to TDsngumbo
So the pic on the left is the "historic" look the city is going for?
This post was edited on 6/28/17 at 3:35 pm
Posted on 6/28/17 at 3:37 pm to Bucktail1
The same goes for natchez, MS
Posted on 6/28/17 at 3:39 pm to TDsngumbo
Sounds like they gave him the wrong permit, so why should he have to come out of pocket for their screw up. They should reimburse him for the things that need to be replaced to consider it historic like they want.
Posted on 6/28/17 at 3:41 pm to TDsngumbo
There are a lot of benefits for having an historic district. Tax credits are no small part. You have to play by the rules though. Vinyl windows are often a sticking point. People don't want to spend the money for real woodwork, but that's a detail differentiating an historic house from a new homes.
Posted on 6/28/17 at 3:41 pm to TDsngumbo
That's too bad. There's this cool old house on the AP side of the bayou manchac bridge that I've always fantasized about buying and renovating.
Posted on 6/28/17 at 3:46 pm to TDsngumbo
Most investors only buy these properties due to the tax breaks on the renovation. But you have to follow the rules...
Posted on 6/28/17 at 3:49 pm to TDsngumbo
No problem.....$1,200 and work can continue Monday morning. I think that's the going rate in the AP.
This post was edited on 6/28/17 at 3:50 pm
Posted on 6/28/17 at 3:49 pm to Pahnew
All because he installed vinyl windows...
Yeap, that's right folks! We'd rather have historically accurate slums than updated homes that kept most of the important historical architectual details
Yeap, that's right folks! We'd rather have historically accurate slums than updated homes that kept most of the important historical architectual details
Posted on 6/28/17 at 3:56 pm to Tigeralum2008
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All because he installed vinyl windows...
Yeap, that's right folks! We'd rather have historically accurate slums than updated homes that kept most of the important historical architectual details
I agree with you if its true, but chances are this guy took the tax breaks and whatever assistance knowing this was a historical home and knowing the rules that went it. Then when they caught him for cheating the system, he cries wolf. Its much more likely this guy was trying to cheat the system then it was an honest mistake.
Posted on 6/28/17 at 3:59 pm to TDsngumbo
If she thinks wooden windows will last longer than the new vinyl clad windows she has no idea what is being used in construction today and why.
That little town needs anyone to come do what he is doing and to deter anyone is a disgrace. She maintained the blighted property was still "historically accurate." What a moron and these people wonder why these little towns can't survive. It's not like he bulldozed it and put a manufactured home on the property.
And old Sidney Torres is in hot water with the Vieux Carre Commission another group of the Gestapo.
I do hope he runs for Mayor
That little town needs anyone to come do what he is doing and to deter anyone is a disgrace. She maintained the blighted property was still "historically accurate." What a moron and these people wonder why these little towns can't survive. It's not like he bulldozed it and put a manufactured home on the property.
And old Sidney Torres is in hot water with the Vieux Carre Commission another group of the Gestapo.
I do hope he runs for Mayor
Posted on 6/28/17 at 4:00 pm to TDsngumbo
My Dad was from Donaldsonville. My Grandmother died when she was 102. She lived in her house until her death. The house was sold and now it looks like the house in the left pic when it was sold it looked like the house in the right pic.
Posted on 6/28/17 at 4:02 pm to white perch
somebody forgot to give the boss his taste
Posted on 6/28/17 at 4:18 pm to GetBackToWork
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There are a lot of benefits for having an historic district. Tax credits are no small part. You have to play by the rules though. Vinyl windows are often a sticking point. People don't want to spend the money for real woodwork, but that's a detail differentiating an historic house from a new homes.
My mom's house is at least 120 years old and has vinyl siding that was installed before the area she lives in was designated an historic district. I dread the day that she has to replace the siding because the district's guidelines pretty much say she has to go back to historic exterior wall treatments. She can't argue that her house isn't historic, either. Its picture is the example they included in the design guidelines for that type of building.
Replacing that siding is going to be expensive because she lives two blocks on the wrong side of an imaginary line.
This post was edited on 6/28/17 at 4:30 pm
Posted on 6/28/17 at 4:19 pm to TDsngumbo
in my experience, historic societies such as this, are the same rogue types that run HOA's.
Posted on 6/28/17 at 4:21 pm to TDsngumbo
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Keep on Donaldsonvilleing, Donaldsonville.
They do that in all historic districts. That is the reason you never really want to buy a home in a historic district unless you have "frick you" money.
Hell, I've seen them make them take bricks off historic buildings and number them so they can put them back exactly where they were after doing repairs.
Posted on 6/28/17 at 4:23 pm to TDsngumbo
He didn't renovate the home for a tax break. I was raised in Dville and the guy is a friend of mine. He works for APSO. The town is FULL of houses that are falling apart like this one when he bought it. If everyone followed his lead and brought those old homes back to life then the town would benefit from it. frick those old entitled assholes who are screwing with him.
This post was edited on 6/28/17 at 4:24 pm
Posted on 6/28/17 at 4:28 pm to dualed
You, sir, are providing fap material to the rest of the OT. Thank you, gentleman, for your service.
Posted on 6/28/17 at 4:33 pm to TDsngumbo
Donaldsonville/AP is so corrupt.
One of the oldest synagogues in the south is now an Ace hardware in donaldsonville and this guy can't fix up an old house?!
It's all about who you know and who gets paid in the AP, especially in the western half of the parish.
One of the oldest synagogues in the south is now an Ace hardware in donaldsonville and this guy can't fix up an old house?!
It's all about who you know and who gets paid in the AP, especially in the western half of the parish.
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