re: Why can't North BR just be its own city?

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Long story short the democrats have completely fricked the black community as a whole by making them generationally defendant on their own demise. 

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The only thing that will end the welfare state is dedicated effort from a GOP Congress and President to force major reform and declare certain aspects unconstitutional.

Even people who desperately want to leave the system have a hard time because its designed to make transitional efforts brutal.

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If the denizens if NBR are unhappy with the lack of businesses, they need to offers incentives to employers and develop a strong working class.

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There was a letter to the editor shortly after Alton Sterling incident that addressed what happened to NBR. It was written by a black man of the middle class that was a former resident of Glen Oaks area. He basically said that 20 yrs ago the middle class black families were happy to live there and kept up with each other and watched out for the kids in the neighborhood... or what most close knit neighborhoods do. Then the drug wars with crack and meth started moving in. And with the residential development of the fringes of BTR booming relocation offered better circumstances for the NBR black middle class and many moved out leaving many impoverished neighborhoods. The letter writer was addressing the culture of violence that has taken over in NBR but the narritive fits your point as well.

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that was a former resident of Glen Oaks area

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There were still many working class white families in Glen Oaks in the 80s. I had a few friends that lived there.

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how their money is spent

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Do shitty apartments and fast food chains generate that much tax revenue?

North Baton Rouge wouldn't make it a year before going bankrupt. They can't pay for themselves, the southern part of Baton Rouge pays for all the shite NBR gets.

i hope everybody in Baton Rouge sees the Mayor is only looking out for the people that put her in office. She would rather let the zoo rot in North Baton Rouge on the taxpayers dime, rather than put it in a thriving location where corporate money will take alot of the burden off of taxpayers

somebody needs to tell the lady from prairieville that she lives in another parish and shouldnt be in the meeting, much less making comments. i bet she would go within the first week of the new zoo opening

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NBR will never be independent unless it stops using the South BR tax base for superfluous ideas such as a Zoo. 

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do some people honestly believe that some award winning,remodeled zoo in it's present location will help the nbr area?i can't honestly see places like Fuqua or north street ever making a comeback.

i guess i'm going to keep on going to the Audubon Zoo with my kids. I will never set foot in that crap hole in North BR