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SWB Creates Blight Strike Team
Posted on 2/15/18 at 4:13 pm
Posted on 2/15/18 at 4:13 pm
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oday (Feb. 15, 2018), Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome announced the creation of a Blight Strike Team tasked with reviewing the blight elimination process and recommending administrative changes to improve blight remediation efforts in East Baton Rouge Parish.
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The Blight Strike Team will include community partners, City-Parish department leaders, redevelopment officials, and Metro Council members, and will work side-by-side with the Metro Council’s Blight Study Committee which will focus on code issues.
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The team will also include two Mayoral appointments and two Metro Council appointments, and will be chaired by Bettsie Baker Miller.
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One member from each of the following organizations will join the Blight Strike Team: Federation of Civic Association Baton Rouge North Economic Development District Mid-City Redevelopment Alliance Downtown Development District Citizens Against Drugs and Violence Together Baton Rouge
East Baton Rouge Redevelopment Authority Urban Restoration Enhancement Corporation Scotlandville Community Development Corporation North Baton Rouge Blue Ribbon Committee Parish Attorney’s Office City-Parish Department of Development Center City Development District Blight Court
311 Call Center
Baton Rouge Police Department East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Department District Attorney’s Office Center for Planning Excellence City-Parish Planning Commission Greater Baton Rouge Association of Realtors Baton Rouge Area Chamber of Commerce
We now have a Strike Team to work with the Study Committee who will work with 2 Mayoral appointments & Chairwoman.
The Blight Strike Team will meet for the first time on March 1, 2018 at 2pm.
Wonder what is on the menu for lunch.
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Posted on 2/15/18 at 4:14 pm to LSUJML
This is honestly a good thing, in theory, but I'm sure in practice will end up being just another political slush fund.
Blight is bad. It's not the source of all crime, bad, but it certainly is not a good thing for any neighborhood. We should be addressing the root causes of blight and brainstorming solutions that are within the power of the city/parish government. Many of these properties may be sitting empty purely due to economics or absentee landlords. Maybe there are title disputes. Maybe there is a certain building code provision that a given property was not designed for and the expense of retrofitting the property makes it economically unviable.
These are issues that should be looked at. However, this is Baton Rouge, and competence is simply something we have no reason to expect at this present time.
Blight is bad. It's not the source of all crime, bad, but it certainly is not a good thing for any neighborhood. We should be addressing the root causes of blight and brainstorming solutions that are within the power of the city/parish government. Many of these properties may be sitting empty purely due to economics or absentee landlords. Maybe there are title disputes. Maybe there is a certain building code provision that a given property was not designed for and the expense of retrofitting the property makes it economically unviable.
These are issues that should be looked at. However, this is Baton Rouge, and competence is simply something we have no reason to expect at this present time.
This post was edited on 2/15/18 at 4:18 pm
Posted on 2/15/18 at 4:16 pm to kingbob
I think it's a good thing as well...until K&B shows up and tries to pseudo-direct it.
This will be a "Look what I did" for a lot of SJW's who spend 10 plus hours a day on social media.
This will be a "Look what I did" for a lot of SJW's who spend 10 plus hours a day on social media.
Posted on 2/15/18 at 4:18 pm to LSUJML
Hell yea! If we clean up these areas stricken with blight, our crime is guaranteed to go down.
Safer BR streets are coming baws. Can't wait!
Safer BR streets are coming baws. Can't wait!
Posted on 2/15/18 at 4:38 pm to LSUJML
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Together Baton Rouge
This post was edited on 9/24/20 at 9:18 pm
Posted on 2/15/18 at 4:44 pm to LSUJML
So we bulldozing NBR or what?
Posted on 2/15/18 at 4:51 pm to LSUJML
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We now have a Strike Team to work with the Study Committee who will work with 2 Mayoral appointments & Chairwoman.
They’ll do an audit to determine funds to do a study which will be put before the team who will vote to commission a study on the effectiveness of the first study’s findings and then propose a recommendation that will never happen. Rinse repeat
Posted on 2/15/18 at 4:54 pm to LSUJML
Gonna be a shite show when Big G and Crazy KB get on there.
Posted on 2/15/18 at 5:01 pm to LSUJML
yeah good in theory, but lets face it. This is to just line more peoples pockets.
Posted on 2/15/18 at 5:10 pm to LSUJML
Great idea. Can't wait to see how they frick it up.
Posted on 2/15/18 at 5:22 pm to tommy2tone1999
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EBR already has a Blight Court
Yea, but a blight court is no match for a blight task force!
Posted on 2/15/18 at 5:29 pm to LSUJML
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Metro Council’s Blight Study Committee
Studies and committees all wrapped into one!!!!!
This is BR nirvana right here!
Posted on 2/15/18 at 5:33 pm to LSUJML
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The Blight Strike Team
Posted on 2/15/18 at 5:45 pm to LSUJML
Did someone say “Strike Team”?
Posted on 2/15/18 at 5:51 pm to LSUJML
Can they please pick up all the loose fricking gravel at every fricking intersection?
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