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LSUengr
| Favorite team: | LSU  |
| Location: | Baton Rouge |
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| Occupation: | Engineer |
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| Registered on: | 9/23/2005 |
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re: Building permit expediters/consultants
Posted by LSUengr on 2/26/26 at 9:12 am to Gee Grenouille
They are a racket and if you are building near you in Bogalusa, you won't need one anyway. Permit office around there won't be like dealing with a more strict parish or city. Just hire a decent architect and they can handle the permitting. If you just hire a plan room or drafter, then you will have to handle permitting yourself.
Just like every OT thread about building a house, it's rocket science that only GCs can figure out in the OT's hivemind. It's always hilarious. If you set exepectations for yourself and your trades, you will be fine. Yes, your trades will abandon you at times because they have to service their bigger clients. So your build is not going to be as efficient as a regular builder. However, if you have held enough of their money, they will come back. Built 5 of my own houses and every house there is one trade that you end up getting crossways with and you have to find another.
Most GCs these days are simply schedulers. They don't know how to actually build anything. They have realtionships and stay current on the process where they build. They can't do plumbing, electrical, framing, trim, etc. My dad was a carpenter/cabinet builder when I was growing up, so I actually did a bunch of the actual work on my own houses. He built 4 of his own houses and helped me on all 5 of mine.
Just like every OT thread about building a house, it's rocket science that only GCs can figure out in the OT's hivemind. It's always hilarious. If you set exepectations for yourself and your trades, you will be fine. Yes, your trades will abandon you at times because they have to service their bigger clients. So your build is not going to be as efficient as a regular builder. However, if you have held enough of their money, they will come back. Built 5 of my own houses and every house there is one trade that you end up getting crossways with and you have to find another.
Most GCs these days are simply schedulers. They don't know how to actually build anything. They have realtionships and stay current on the process where they build. They can't do plumbing, electrical, framing, trim, etc. My dad was a carpenter/cabinet builder when I was growing up, so I actually did a bunch of the actual work on my own houses. He built 4 of his own houses and helped me on all 5 of mine.
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Learn to read a map. Yucatan isn't anywhere near what's been in the news bro. Yucatan is the same as it has always been.
re: Greenwell springs marine - Baton Rouge
Posted by LSUengr on 2/23/26 at 7:52 am to finfeathersport
They have serviced our bay boat for over 15 years now. Just like any shop they won't get it perfect everytime, but they do good work. Mike is knowledgeable and reasonably priced.
re: I’ll take the W. But concern with LSU giving up too many runs??
Posted by LSUengr on 2/17/26 at 8:22 am to TigerFan244
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Have you not watched how Jay manages the season?
Its not just Jay, it is how good baseball coaches with good teams manage a season. You have to find out early in the season who you can depend on late in the season to get you to a championship. Good high school teams do it. It's not some secret.
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What is false?
Hit a nerve? Nah, deal with uninformed people like yourself everyday. Everything you have said in the thread is false. Just like most opposition you simply choose one part of the code and ignore the rest.
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There's only a couple of lots that are minimum 70' wide
Table C of the code is the guidelines for a major subdivision.
The plat met all the requiements, but the commissioners don't know the code well enough. So due to public pressure, they incorrectly denied a plat that met all the requirements of the code they are to uphold.
Not smarter than everyone else, but do know the code better than mostly everyone but the staff.
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That is a massive advantage to the developer and to give them 3 more minutes after they fumbled through the 10 minutes was a slap in the face to the citizens.
The public was prepared with false information that has no basis in reality. The public each get 3 minutes and around 30 people spoke, so if you watched the meeting they spoke for far longer than the developer. To argue that the developer got more time than the public is hilarious.
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76/21.75
Wrong again, keep trying though.
Right, just degenerate to total falsehoods when you cant win an argument. Typical NIMBY tactic. No one is building zero lot line houses, but again you know that. The plat met the code, and 70' lots aren't the minimum in RM per the code.
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Compare that to the homes from the plat in the underlying area zoned RM.
Doesn't matter. The property is zoned RM and the plat met RM. It doesn't matter if the adjacent lots are 1/2 acre.
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bullshite like this is how we end up with postage stamp lots that are supposed to be RM lots.
Minimum lot size has nothing to do with net density. So the pipelines use or not has nothing to do with the lot size. Whether you agree with the code or not, the plat met the requirement since the servitude is part of the recreation area. Kids/adults can play soccer, football, baseball, ride their bikes, have a picnic, do anything on it other than build a structure or plant a tree. So it can be used for recreation. Matter of fact multiple kids/adults spoke about how they use an asphalt street for recreation, but a pipeline servitude can't be recreated on. That's a pretty backwards argument.
Net Density is calculated by subtracting out any of the following that are not part of the recreation system from the Gross Site Area:
i.Any portion of pipeline servitudes/ROW's that is not within a developable lot...
The guy in the glasses is the staff and he actually knows the code. The lady commissioner doesn't know the code as well as he does. She was fed the wrong info from the neighbors. The pertinent portion of the ordinance is above. The pipeline servitude is part of the recreation system so it counts towards the net density. Her points about whether the pipeline company needs to do maintenance or whether structures can be built on it have nothing to do with the code. It's in black and white, the only requirement is that it be part of the recreation area.
In your made up scenario, yes you could develop the 30 lots on the 5 acres if you could meet all of the other requirements in the code, which you couldn't. So you couldn't do 30 lots on the other 5 due to the other code restrictions, such as lot sizes, detention, etc.
The development complied with the code. The staff and ERA, who actually know the code, certified as such. Of course, the general public is smarter and more knowledgeable than the people who deal with the code every day...
i.Any portion of pipeline servitudes/ROW's that is not within a developable lot...
The guy in the glasses is the staff and he actually knows the code. The lady commissioner doesn't know the code as well as he does. She was fed the wrong info from the neighbors. The pertinent portion of the ordinance is above. The pipeline servitude is part of the recreation system so it counts towards the net density. Her points about whether the pipeline company needs to do maintenance or whether structures can be built on it have nothing to do with the code. It's in black and white, the only requirement is that it be part of the recreation area.
In your made up scenario, yes you could develop the 30 lots on the 5 acres if you could meet all of the other requirements in the code, which you couldn't. So you couldn't do 30 lots on the other 5 due to the other code restrictions, such as lot sizes, detention, etc.
The development complied with the code. The staff and ERA, who actually know the code, certified as such. Of course, the general public is smarter and more knowledgeable than the people who deal with the code every day...
Your acreage is wrong but you already knew that. Keep on saying 76 on 20 acres, but it still won't make it true.
re: Ascension Parish Planning Commission Denies New Subdivision
Posted by LSUengr on 2/15/26 at 2:22 pm to RaginCajunz
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There are 76 houses in 20 acres of RM land.
LSUalum quoted these numbers. Those aren't correct as I stated because he/she doesn't understand what the code calls developable acreage that is considered for density.
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Point me to the code where it says that is allowable?
Again, you are misrepresenting the numbers. Those numbers aren't correct. Get the spreadsheet that the Parish requires be submitted with every submittal that spells it all out. Perform the calculations and then come enlighten us to how it's wrong. The problem is you don’t know what the code spells out as development acreage and allowed in the density calculations. If you don't agree with the code, that's fine, but don't say it doesn't meet the code because you don't agree with it.
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I love all these traffic and flood studies done by the developers.
Try again baw. The parish hires the consultant to do the traffic study and the developer simply pays. So are you saying the Parish is cooking the numbers on their own study? Also the Parish spent millions building a stormwater model. Every proposed development is entered into the model and must have zero impact. So the parish cooks the books on that too?
What other professional, such as doctors, dentist, accountant, lawyer, plumber, electrician, do you say always done their job wrong? How come everyone is an expert on traffic, drainage and sewer but the engineers? Just cause you have some perceived anecdotal evidence? Let me guess, the ditches in your neighborhood have water in them after a rain and one time you had to wait 5 minutes to get out of your neighborhood so you know drainage and traffic.
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The developer is way off on the calculations of net developable area, along with code that specifies that land must be developed at its underlying zoning density.
If you actually knew the code and looked at the numbers, you would know you have no idea what you are talking about. The plat meets the code, but the commissioners dont know the code. So they listen to people like you who have no idea what they are talking about.
re: Sen Kennedy wants more ducks in Louisiana.
Posted by LSUengr on 2/4/26 at 12:55 pm to White Bear
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So they want to ban all artificial flooding of harvested crops?
Thats the slippery slope that they don't think of. In their minds, corn bad is all they can think. Rice, Milo, Millet etc, would still be legal?
re: Hunting Venice and staying clean
Posted by LSUengr on 2/3/26 at 4:33 pm to Turkaturkaturk
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I have a 2001 24' bay boat that does everything I want down there looks like shite but runs well and hunts and fishes well.
Hammer knows. We have a similar set up, 2002 Express. You can beat the crap out of it and it doesn't get worse than it already is. Problem is now with the lack of ducks, effort ain't worth the squeeze. Grinded thru the mud in my pirouge on a couple hunts down there this year and didn't fire a shot. That's when you question if it is worth it.
re: Thibodeaux tomorrow
Posted by LSUengr on 2/3/26 at 4:27 pm to KemoSabe65
Another vote for Spahr's. Eat at the Des Allemends location half dozen times a summer on the way to Grand Isle.
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I mean, it's the truth. It is the reason they won't allow into February.
Come on man, don't you know biologist just have a hidden agenda to keep the hunter down!
Said this in other threads, the season always ended around January 15-20 because biologists know the majority of ducks are generally starting to pair around that time. The energy expended during courtship by the hen is then wasted when the drake is killed and she has to do it all over again. She then goes back to the breeding grounds, at least what is left of them, later and in worse body condition. We have Senator Lott to thank for that change in the 1998 bill.
Now January 31 isn't late enough, so we need to go to February. Like clockwork after the season guys are like look at all the ducks that showed up...They were there, just on spots they know they wouldn't get shot. Now they can spread out since the pressure is over. Telemetry data shows they generally won't go further south after about the end of December. They just redistribute east/west and across the habitat once they know the shooting is over. The ice event across the middle of the country did lock up some food so they did have to redistribute to other places that weren't locked up. That gets them killed since they are redistributing to places that they aren't sure are safe.
The simple fact is that the breeding grounds are in terrible shape (weather and manmade) and we aren't getting duck production. A healthy mallard population is 10 milliion. We are at 6.5 million. Less ducks means the food lasts longer up north, they can be more concentrated and they aren't going to go further south than they need to. The loss of habitat on the PPR also makes them more concentrated, which is easier pickings for predators. Add in the milder winters and it is a recipe for hunting disaster. More ducks would fix that.
Everyone should be screaming for wetlands protection up north (making sure swampbusters doesn't get repealed) and convincing Canada to stop draining every wetland in the PPR to plant crops. A couple good years of production and this whole corn debate would disappear. The corn is actually providing habitat that we otherwise wouldn't have. The habitat in LA is definitely degraded. Until we get rid of Salvinia, our habitat is screwed among other habitat issues we have.
Sent him a message thru his website expressing disappointment that he has bought into the wrong messaging from the Flyway Federation or whoever convinced him this was a good idea. Of course I didn't believe he would read it, but figured his staff should at least inform themselves before letting him send another letter with such a bad take. Got the same ole tired response I would expect from one of the corn boys. Got the following response:
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Dear Mr. LSUengr:
Thank you for contacting me about waterfowl baiting regulations. I appreciate hearing from you about this important issue.
As you may know, in 1998, Congress enacted the Migratory Bird Treaty Reform Act (MBTRA), which eliminated the strict liability standard for violations of federal waterfowl baiting regulations. Prior to this change, hunters could be cited for baiting violations regardless of whether they knew bait was present. In 1999, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) promulgated a final rule implementing the MBTRA by defining “normal agricultural planting, harvesting, and post-harvest manipulation.” However, the regulation’s definition of “manipulation” did not address flooding. By failing to include flooding in the baiting framework, the rule effectively allowed hunting over intentionally flooded standing agricultural crops, particularly corn.
This growth in available waste grain in more northern states provides waterfowl with an abundance of energy-dense but nutritionally inadequate food, effectively eliminating one of the primary motivations for ducks and geese to migrate to their traditional wintering grounds in the southern United States. Not only has this change altered traditional migration behavior, but it has also increased the concentration of waterfowl in artificial habitats, heightening the risk of avian influenza and undermining conservation incentives to restore natural wetland habitats in southern regions. I remain committed to advocating on behalf of Louisiana hunters who deserve a transparent explanation for the consistent decline in wintering waterfowl numbers, including an honest assessment of how current federal regulations are influencing migration patterns.
Again, thank you for contacting me about this important issue. Please do not hesitate to contact me in the future about other issues that are important to you and to your family.
re: What's the word on Schmidt?
Posted by LSUengr on 1/30/26 at 3:26 pm to nicholastiger
Not hitting his spots today. Couple hitters bailed him out this past inning. Gave up a run.
IST 1/30/26
Posted by LSUengr on 1/30/26 at 6:10 am
EBR Parish
40°
2 mph WNW
Box blind on field
College aged son on the gun
Looking for a fat nanny
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Edit: Doe down. 5 came out, largest one dead.
40°
2 mph WNW
Box blind on field
College aged son on the gun
Looking for a fat nanny
.45-70
Edit: Doe down. 5 came out, largest one dead.
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What is this shite? I haven't known anyone to despise a green jeans
Glad you've had good interactions.
Overzealous South Carolina Game Wardens
Posted by LSUengr on 1/23/26 at 7:51 am
No matter how much you despise game wardens, it's not enough. South Carolina man was arrested for glassing a decoy buck at night. Never turned a light on or touched his rifle. Game wardens thought they had a "career" case. Now they and the department are being sued.
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