re: Soccer field’s bright lights and alleged code violations divide Ascension neighbors

90 foot stadium lights?

I gotta take a ride and see this.

Location?

You'll have to ride through Oakbourne neighborhood off Hwy. 74 to see them. Can't see them any other way unless you go onto his property.

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His facility was up well before the neighborhood.



Then frick them. They knew what was there when they bought their houses

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Doesn't matter, people are going to complain anyway. The land at Parker Road and 929 used to have cattle on it and people who built or bought next to it, complained about the cows.

You have to be pretty self absorbed to put those lights up 30 feet from your neighbors, and also pretty dumb to think they wouldn’t be upset and try to fight it, unless you have it all mapped it out and know your legally untouchable. Sounds like he doesn’t. I’m sure them 90’ lights weren’t cheap either.

It couldn’t have happened to a better person. Robicheaux is no saint in this situation. His moves are always based on how he can portray his image.

He has always done what he pleases then plays the innocence card. “It’s all for the kids”.

This particular situation is simple. He built without permits. He operates a business on residential zoning. Anyone else would have been immediately shut down.

As for his teams and program, it is equally as sad how he facilitates things. Another poster mentioned this, but he will go poach players yearly to come to his teams and he will replace others that have been on his teams. He is not about development and only about winning.
A local team that I know well beat the brakes off one his teams. The next day the coach was told that Dr. Robicheaux wants to talk with you. The whole team was offered to go over for free. Along with a small thank you payment to the kids.

Robicheaux is not innocent nor does he do things the right way.

Good god almighty. This post is youth sports in a nutshell.

Y'all are out of control down there in the Pelican State with this youth sports/travel ball/etc nonsense.

That being said, my outsider quick take is regardless of whether the property with the soccer complex came first, or the neighborhoods came first (sounds like it was the complex first....I don't care enough to read the article, but yes I'm chiming in anyway ) you can't put up actual stadium lights in two months ago in February. At that point the neighborhood damn sure was established.

If all of that...the fields, the complex, the lights, the parking....all of that preexisted, then I'd tell the neighbors to deal with it. Hell, one side of Kentucky's football stadium is directly next to a neighborhood....ilI literally park on a neighborhood street and cut through people's yards sometimes on GameDay. Those residents knew what they signed up for when they purchased the property.

If this guy just erected these lights in February without a permit, he is 100% a douchebag. Especially if it's for something as gay as soccer.

Trust me when I tell you, he is. He thinks rules don’t apply to him. I’ve witnessed it.