Aug 15, 2022 Planning Commission

THANK YOU, SIR.

WE HAVE TWO, UH, SPEAKER CHORUS.

ONE IS IN FAVOR, LARRY MESSINA, WHO DOES NOT WISH TO SPEAK.

UH, THE OTHER IS OPPOSED, UH, AIR PIAZZA.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION? I'LL BE BRIEF.

WE'RE ASKING FOR THE SAME DEFERRAL.

I'D APPRECIATE IT.

IF Y'ALL WOULD JUST DEFER IT.

WE'RE GOING TO END UP WITHDRAWING IT NEXT MONTH.

UH, WHEN THE BATTERIES GENERALLY BUYS THE PROPERTY FROM MR. MESSINA.

AND SO THERE'S AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE PARTIES AND I'M JUST HERE TO MAKE SURE THAT IT GOT THE VERB.

THANK YOU GUYS.

THAT MOTION HAS A SECOND FROM COMMISSIONER HILL.

THERE ARE NO MORE SPEAKER CARDS.

IF AT THE APPLICANT DOESN'T NEED A REBUTTAL, THEN I'LL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND UH, OPEN THE FLOOR TO THE COMMISSION FOR QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, OR MOTIONS, VICE CHAIRMAN GROUT.

I MOVE FOR 60 DAY DEFERRAL.

THERE'S A MOTION ON THE FLOOR TO DEFER THIS ITEM FOR 60 DAYS.

I BELIEVE

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ARE THERE ANY OBJECTIONS SEEING NONE? THAT ITEM HAS BEEN DEFERRED FOR 60 DAYS, MR. CHAIRMAN,

[Items 3 & 4 ]

THE NEXT TWO ITEMS MAY BE TAKEN TOGETHER.

THANK YOU DIRECTOR.

HOPING WE WILL NOW HEAR ITEM NUMBER THREE.

PLAN AMENDMENT 1720 TO 25 63, 25 65 AND 25 69.

LYDIA AVENUE AND CA AND ITEM NUMBER FOUR, CASE 45 22 BE A 17 22 25 63, 25 65 AND 25 69 ELIDIA AVENUE RELATED TO CASE 45 22.

THE PROPERTY IS LOCATED NORTH SIDE OF THE AVENUE, EAST OF PERKINS ROAD CONSULT DISTRICT SEVEN CODE.

THE APPLICANT IS WILLIAM B. JONES.

THE APPLICANT HAS PROPOSED THE COMPREHENSIVE YOUTH PLANNER, MEN, MEN FROM RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD TO NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER CORRELATE A CASE 45 22.

THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING TO RESOLVE FROM SINGLE FAMILY, RESIDENTIAL, A ONE TWO LIGHT COMMERCIAL LLC.

ONE PROPOSED USE OFFICE AND RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION.

THE FUTURE LAND USE DESIGNATION IS RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORS, PA 17 22 25 63, 25 65 AND 25 69 ELIDIA AVENUE.

STAFF RECOMMENDS DENIAL OF THE PLAN AMENDMENT BASED UPON THE LAND USE DESIGNATION OF RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD APPEARING APPROPRIATE WITH THE DEVELOPMENT PATTERN IN THE AREA.

STAFF ALSO CANNOT CERTIFY THAT THE PROPOSED REZONING REQUEST MEETS THE CRITERIA FOR A CHANGE OF ZONING.

IT IS INCONSISTENT WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND, AND COMPATIBLE WITH EXISTING CHARACTER OR USAGE OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD PLANNING COMMISSION OFFICE HAS RECEIVED 13 MESSAGES AND OPPOSITION TO THESE CASES AND ALSO RECEIVED A PETITION WITH 119 SIGNATURES, ALL OPPOSING THESE TWO CASES.

AT THIS TIME, I OPENED THE PUBLICLY PUBLIC HEARING AND INVITE THE APPLICANT TO SPEAK FOR A PERIOD NOT TO EXCEED 15 MINUTES.

IS THE APPLICANT PRESENT? OKAY, GOOD EVENING.

MY NAME IS MICHAEL STEWART.

I'M A PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE APPLICANT, WILLIAM JONES FOR THE REZONING AT 2 5 6 3 LYDIA STREET FROM A ONE TO L C1.

THE PROPERTY OWNERS AT THIS ADDRESS HAVE BEEN LONG-TIME BUSINESS OWNERS AND MERCHANTS IN BATON ROUGE.

DURING THE 1860S, SE COMO OWNED A GENERAL STORE ON GOVERNMENT STREET.

HIS SON WB COMO OPERATED SEVERAL BUSINESSES AND PROPERTIES ON FLORIDA BOULEVARD.

THE PROPERTY ON LYDIA HAS BEEN IN OPERATION COMMERCIALLY SINCE THE FORTIES, AS PART OF INVESTMENT PROPERTY.

SINCE THE FORTIES CONTINUALLY, THE REZONING IS AN ATTEMPT TO PROPERLY ZONE THE BUSINESS OPERATIONS THERE, AS WELL AS ESTABLISH, ESTABLISH A COUNSELING CENTER FOR THE BATON ROUGE AREA AND CREATE AN ONLINE PRESENCE THAT CAN BE ACCESSED FROM THE INTERNET VIA WEB BASED COUNSELING SERVICES.

THE APPLICANT HOLDS A MASTER'S DEGREE IN COUNSELING AND WANTS TO PUT HIS DEGREE TO GOOD USE SERVING AS A GRIEF COUNSELOR FOR CANCER PATIENTS, DIVORCES AND FAMILIES OF HANDICAP PERSONS.

IN MY OPINION, AS A RADIATION THERAPIST, I'VE SEEN THE BENEFITS OF COUNSELING COUNSELING IS A HUGE PART OF THE RECOVERY PROCESS FOR OUR PATIENTS AND THEIR FAMILY.

THE COUNSELING PROFESSION IS IN SUPER DEMAND BECAUSE OUR NATION AND WORLD HAS EXPERIENCED IN MIDDLE MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL HEALTH CRISIS.

WE HAVE QUITE A FEW SPEAKER CORES THAT ARE IN OPPOSITION.

UH, FIRST CARD IS FOR KEVIN BROOKS.

YEAH, THE FLOOR FOR THREE MINUTES, SIR.

BEFORE THEY PULL ONTO LYDIA AVENUE.

I REVIT IN 26, 22 LIDDY AVENUE.

THAT IS A WAY IT'S TWO HOUSES DOWN FROM THE VARSITY SHOE STORE.

THAT TRAFFIC POINT IS A HAZARD.

UM, IT'S NOT WIDE ENOUGH THAT IN ORDER TO, FOR SOMEONE TO TURN OFF OF PERK OFF OF PERKINS ROAD ONTO LYDIA, IF THERE'S A CAR THERE, THEY HAVE TO STOP ALL THE TRAFFIC BEHIND THEM

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THE OAK TREES THAT ARE THERE ON THE ONE PROPERTY ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF, OF LYDIA IS A VISUAL HAZARD BECAUSE YOU CAN'T SEE AROUND IT.

YOU HAVE TO PULL LITERALLY OUT ONTO PERKINS ROAD TO SEE.

SO IF THERE HAPPENS TO BE A MAIL TRUCK OR A FEDEX TRUCK PARKED ANYWHERE ON EITHER SIDE OF THE, OF THE, UH, LYDIA AVENUE, YOUR VISION IS BLOCKED.

I MET BARELY MISSED HAVING AN ACCIDENT ACCIDENT THERE A YEAR AGO, THE STREETS ARE TOO NARROW.

AS OF NOW, THERE IS A CAR, RIGHT, BECAUSE THERE'S NO PARKING ON THE SOUTH SIDE.

AND SO TO TURN WHEN THE ROUND IS WET RIGHT NOW, IT'S OVER AN ANKLE DEEP.

I LIKE FOUND OUT THE OTHER DAY.

UM, AND THE MOSQUITOES ARE A CREDIBLE RIGHT NOW.

SO NOT ONLY IS IT TOO NARROW, BUT IN ORDER FOR A CAR TO PASS ON LYDIA, SOMEONE'S GOT TO GET OFF THE ROAD.

THEY HAVE TO GET INTO SOMEONE'S YARD.

AND WHEN PEOPLE PARK, THEY DON'T PARK ON THE LYDIA.

THEY STOP.

SOME OF THEM ARE LITERALLY BLOCKING THE STREET THAT THE LADY AVENUE, SO NO ONE CAN GO AROUND AND I'VE LIVED THERE FOR 44 YEARS.

AND SO WHEN THE VARSITY CAME, THAT WAS GREAT.

BUT THEN THE PARKING HAS NOW BECOME A HORRENDOUS BECAUSE WE HAVE THE APARTMENT COMPLEX.

PEOPLE ARE PARKING SIDEWAYS BEHIND EACH OTHER.

THEY HAVE TO GO AND MARK SPECIFIC SPARKY'S PARKING SPACES.

SO JUST TO BE SAFE BECAUSE SAFETY IS THE KEY.

I PROPOSE THAT YOU NOT RESELL.

OUR NEXT COURT IS FOR DAVIS ROAR, JR.

YES, UH, COMMISSIONERS.

MY NAME IS DAVIS WARD JR.

I'M SPEAKING TODAY ON BEHALF OF MYSELF AND MY MOTHER RESIDES AT 2 9 3 1 0 DASH AVENUE.

AND I WANT TO EXPRESS MY VERY STRONG OPPOSITION TO THIS ITEM.

UH, THIS REQUEST WOULD NEGATIVELY IMPACT MY MOM'S NEIGHBORHOOD AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD THAT I GREW UP IN.

SHE HAS LIVED IN HER HOME SINCE 1988.

AND, UH, THE REQUEST WOULD IMPACT THE QUIET CHARACTER OF THE STREETS, THE RESIDENTIAL NATURE OF HER NEIGHBORS.

AND SO I MUST CONCUR WITH YOUR STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION THAT THE LAND USE CHANGED, BE DENIED AND THAT THE PROPOSED CHANGE IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THE CHARACTERISTIC USAGE OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

JUST TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND, LYDIA IS EXCLUSIVELY A RESIDENTIAL STREET.

IT IS LOCATED IN AN OLD NEIGHBORHOOD THAT IS AN EXCLUSIVELY RESIDENTIAL CHARACTER.

WE HAVE A FEW APARTMENTS, SOME LARGE HOMES, SOME MORE MODEST ONES, ALL OCCUPIED BY RESIDENTS WHO LOVE THE UNIQUE CHARACTER OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.

THERE ARE COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES THAT BORDER OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.

THOSE ARE LIMITED TO FAR CITY SPORTS, ZEELAND STREET MARKET, SKIP PENSKE, STATE, FARM LOAN, DEPOT, AND COUNTRY CORNER.

ALL OF THOSE COMMERCIAL TENANTS HAVE DIRECT ACCESS TO PERKINS ROAD.

THIS PROPERTY DOES NOT.

THIS APPLICATION WOULD IN FACT, INTRODUCE THE FIRST COMMERCIAL ZONE TO OUR NEIGHBORHOODS INTERIOR.

SINCE IT WAS PLANTED ALMOST 90 YEARS AGO, IT WOULD ALLOW ANY FUTURE ZONE LC, ONE BUSINESS, NOT JUST THE HOME BUSINESSES AT THE APPLICANT TO OPERATE OUT OF THIS PROPERTY.

AND LYDIA IS ALSO UNIQUELY UNSUITABLE FOR ANOTHER REASON AS BROUGHT UP BY THE PREVIOUS SPEAKER.

IT'S TOO NARROW.

IT'S ACTUALLY MORE NARROW THAN THE OTHER RESIDENTIAL STREETS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, INCLUDING ZEELAND EDWARD AND RAYMOND.

THE PROPERTY AT ISSUE HAS VERY LIMITED OFF STREET.

PARKING VEHICLES WILL BE FORCED TO PARALLEL PARK ON A STREET.

THAT'S ALREADY TOO NARROW FOR TWO-WAY TRAFFIC AND IS MORE SUITABLE FOR VERY LIGHT, LOCAL RESIDENTIAL USE.

THE APPLICANT HAS ALLEGED THAT IT IS DISCRIMINATORY THAT HE BORDERS ANOTHER COMMERCIAL PROPERTY, VARSITY SPORTS, BUT AGAIN, THAT PROPERTY HAS DIRECT ACCESS TO PERKINS ROAD.

THIS PROPERTY DOES NOT FINALLY, THE APPLICANT HAS ALLEGED IN HIS APPLICATION THAT DENIAL OF HIS REQUEST WOULD VIOLATE REAL LUPA, BUT COMMISSIONERS THAT'S SIMPLY NOT CORRECT BECAUSE YOUR OWN STAFF HAS IDENTIFIED VERY LEGITIMATE REASONS WHY THIS REQUEST SHOULD BE DENIED.

UH, I WAS NOT ABLE TO FIND ANY INFORMATION ON PROVIDENCE COUNCIL INSTITUTE IS ASSOCIATED WITH A WEB ADDRESS, WB JONES REALTY.COM, BUT THE WEB ADDRESS DOESN'T WORK.

UM, I DO SEE THAT MR. JONES IS ASSOCIATED WITH TIGER NOTARY GULF STATE TITLE, SEVERAL BUSINESSES THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE LEGAL INDUSTRY, BUT NOT ANY THAT I THINK WOULD INVOKE REAL LUPA.

SO FINALLY, COMMISSIONERS, I THANK YOU FOR

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LETTING ME SPEAK.

I HOPE YOU'LL TAKE MY CONCERNS AND THE CONCERNS OF MY MOM INTO ACCOUNT THESE KEY BARRED, RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD OF YOUR RESIDENTIAL CHARACTER.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

OUR NEXT CARD IS FOR RUTH BARNS.

I HAVE LIVED FOR 38 YEARS IN THE SECOND BLOCK OF LYDIA BELOW THIS PROPOSED ZONING CHANGE.

I AND OTHERS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OFTEN MUST DEFER TO OUR CRAB TO PERKINS ROAD USING ANOTHER STREET DUE TO TRAFFIC POTHOLES AND PARKING CONGESTION ON LYDIA AT BURKINS.

I FEAR A CHANGE IN ZONING WOULD INCREASE THESE PROBLEMS AND ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO TRY TO CHANGE THE RESIDENTIAL ZONING IN THE AREA.

OUR NEXT CARD IS FOR GENE COCO.

THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK.

MY NAME IS JEAN COCO.

I'VE BEEN ARRESTED OF LYDIA FOR EIGHT YEARS.

MY MOTHER GREW UP ON THE STREET.

UM, WE MOVED BACK TO BATON ROUGE 17 YEARS AGO TO RETURN TO LSU, TO WORK.

AND WE WERE PRETTY SURPRISED AT THE, UM, THE CHANGES IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD WITH A LITTLE BIT MORE COMMERCIAL ENCROACHMENT.

UM, SO I HAVEN'T SHOWN, I HAVE SOME VISUALS THAT WILL HELP ME, UM, ELABORATE ON POINT SOME I'M NOT GOING TO REPEAT BECAUSE OTHER SPEAKERS HAVE TALKED ABOUT THIS.

UM, I'M ALSO HERE ON BEHALF OF THE 119 RESIDENTS WHO SIGNED THE PETITION.

WE POUNDED THE PAVEMENT IN THE HEAT TO GET THOSE SIGNATURES.

LOTS OF PEOPLE HAVE VERY STRONG FEELINGS ABOUT THIS ISSUE.

SO MY FIRST VISUAL HERE, UM, WE'LL SHOW YOU THAT.

AND I ACTUALLY WENT OUT AND MEASURED.

LYDIA IS 13 AND A HALF FEET WIDE.

WHEREAS EDWARD TO THE SOUTH IS 25 FEET.

Y AND SEALANT IS 21 AND A HALF FEET WIDE.

AND ON POINT OUT THAT EDWARD HAS CURVES.

LYDIA HAS NO CURVES, WHICH CAUSES THE PROBLEM.

AS WE SEE HERE WITH THE BIG POTHOLES, BECAUSE PEOPLE HAVE TO PULL OVER FOR ANOTHER CAR TO COME THROUGH, OR FOR ONE OF THESE CARS AT THE FOURPLEX, I'M CALLING IT THE FOURPLEX WHO'S THERE LIKE FOUR OTHER THREE APARTMENTS THAN A RESIDENTIAL APARTMENT HERE.

I DON'T KNOW IF PEOPLE LIVE HERE AND THEN OPERATE THE BUSINESSES WHILE THEY LIVE.

I DON'T KNOW THE NATURE EXACTLY, BUT THE POINT IS AS THE FIRST SPEAKER, UM, POINTED OUT, UM, PEOPLE HAVE TO PULL OVER THE SIDE, WE GET THE REDDING, WE GET THE POTHOLES, THE WATER, UM, AND WE EXPECT THIS TO GET EVEN WORSE WHEN THE ITIN CONSTRUCTION COMES.

AND A LOT OF THE ITIN TRAFFIC GETS DIVERTED TO SURFACE STREETS WHENEVER THE BRIDGE THAT EXPANSION COMES BECAUSE WE KNOW IT'S, IT'S COMING DOWN THE PIKE EVENTUALLY.

UM, SO THE OTHER PHOTOGRAPH I HAVE IT'S BECAUSE THERE IS NOT AMPLE PARKING IN FRONT OF THE FOURPLEX PEOPLE PARK ACROSS THE STREET.

DESPITE THE FACT THAT THERE ARE SIGNS THAT SAY NO, PARKING ON THIS SIDE, THE CARS ARE NEVER TICKETED.

I COULD HAVE TAKEN A PICTURE EVERY DAY OF THE VEHICLES PARKED ON THAT SIDE.

UM, AGAIN, CAUSING MORE TRAFFIC BACKUP ON LYDIA, UM, AND ON PERKINS, UM, THIS, BY THE WAY IS ILLEGAL PARKING.

THEY'RE NEVER TICKETS ON THE VEHICLES TO DISCOURAGE THIS.

THEN FINALLY, ANOTHER ISSUE IS SIDEWALK ENCROACHMENT.

WE HAVE A NEIGHBORHOOD WITH LOTS OF PEOPLE WITH SMALL CHILDREN.

I'VE NOTICED A LOT OF THE NEW RESIDENTS HAVE KIDS LEARNING HOW TO RIDE BIKES, OR THEY HAVE SCOOTERS, OR THEY JUST WANT TO WALK AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD OR JUST ADULTS WANTING TO WALK AND ELDERLY PEOPLE WANTING TO WALK WITH THEIR DOGS.

AND BECAUSE OF THIS SIDEWALK, ENCROACHMENT PEOPLE HAVE TO WALK LITERALLY ON LYDIA, A STREET THAT'S ALREADY TOO NARROW AND HAS LOTS OF TRAFFIC.

AND AS SOMEONE ELSE MENTIONED, THE UPS, TRUCKS AND FEDEX AND THE AMAZON TRUCK THAT'S ALWAYS AROUND.

UM, SO THIS IS ALSO AN ISSUE.

MA'AM YOUR TIME IS UP.

BEEN MENTIONED, PERKINS ROAD, WHERE THE ONLY COMMERCIALLY FACING STREETS EXIST.

OUR NEXT CARD IS FOR MATTHEW BARTOLE, UH, GOOD EVENING.

UM, I'M A RESIDENT OF EUGENE STREET, ONE BLOCK OVER FROM LYDIA.

UH, FIRST OF ALL, LIKE THE THANK MR. ROAR AND THE OTHERS, THEY ESSENTIALLY MADE ALL THE POINTS I WAS GOING TO MAKE.

SO I WILL BE VERY BRIEF.

UH, I WOULD TYPICALLY LIKE TO EMPHASIZE MY GREATEST CONCERN IS THE FUTURE IS ALWAYS UNCERTAIN.

UH, THE, THE PLANNED USE OF THIS MAY BE LAUDABLE TO PROVIDE COUNSELING, BUT WITH A COMMERCIAL DESIGNATION, THERE'S NO TELLING WHAT IT COULD BECOME IN THE FUTURE.

AND AS YOUR OWN STAFF HAS NOTED, THIS IS A RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD.

IT'S COMPLETELY INAPPROPRIATE TO PLACE A COMMERCIAL BUSINESS OF ANY KIND, UH, IN THIS LOCATION OR FOR THAT MATTER ON ANY OF THE STREETS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

OTHER THAN, AS HAS

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SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

WE HAVE SEVERAL MORE, UH, SPEAKER CARDS THAT ARE IN OPPOSITION, BUT DO NOT WISH TO SPEAK.

I'LL READ THOSE NAMES.

AND FOR THE RECORD STANLEY WILDER, VICTOR JR.

DIANE DIDIER, KEN WILLIAMS, ASO WALKER, AND THOMAS WALKER.

AT THIS TIME, I'LL INVITE THE APPLICANT BACK FOR A FIVE MINUTE REBUTTAL AND COUNCIL MEMBERS.

THE NEXT WAY YOU JONATHAN, THE APPLICANT.

AND, UH, JUST WANT TO SAY, I DON'T KNOW WHY OUR PROPERTY IS ZONED.

UH, ONE RESIDENTIAL.

IT'S BEEN SEVERAL BUSINESSES THERE SINCE THE 1940S.

I BROUGHT THAT INTO THE COMMISSION.

THEY DENIED ME A, UH, A USE FOR THE PROPERTY.

SO WE HAVE AT LEAST EIGHT UNITS THERE.

UM, I DON'T KNOW WHY IT AT LEAST SHOULD BE MULTI-FAMILY ZONED.

UM, BUT, BUT MY GRANDFATHER HAD BEEN OPERATING BUSINESSES THERE SINCE THE 1940S.

WE HAVE THE RANTS, WE HAVE WHAT WE CAN SHOW AND CAN BRING IN THAT WE'VE BEEN OPERATING COMMERCIALLY THERE SINCE THE 1940S.

I DO NOT AGREE WITH THOSE IN OPPOSITION.

I UNDERSTAND THAT THEY'VE BEEN LIVING THERE A LONG TIME, BUT IF ANYONE GOES OUT THERE ON A FRIDAY OR SATURDAY, YOU WILL SEE THAT THAT IS NOT A RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD.

IT IS PACKED WITH CARS, CONSTANTLY COMMERCIAL COMING IN THEIR DIVORCE SPORTS, WHICH THEY'VE ALLOWED FOR SUPPORTING.

AND EVERYBODY LOVES VARSITY SPORTS, BUT THERE'S FOUR BUSINESSES THAT ARE TACKED INTO VARSITY SPORTS RIGHT THERE IN THAT ONE CORNER.

I DON'T KNOW WHY, YOU KNOW, A COUNSELING CENTER WOULD NOT BRING IN THAT TYPE OF RETAIL CUSTOMERS.

IT WOULD NOT BE A HEAVY TRAFFIC BUSINESS.

UM, UM, UM, I ASKED HIM FOR, TO, TO MOVE IN FAVOR OF THE, OF THE REZONING.

AND I WOULD LIKE TO SERVE SOMETHING HERE, SORRY, CAN YOU GO BACK TO THE MIC SO THAT WE CAN, UH, CAPTURE YOU ZEALAND? AND HE GOT LYDIA, RIGHT? THEY ALL HAVE THESE ACCESSES TO, UM, UH, THE MAIN STREET HERE.

SO THEY THERE'S, IT'S NOT A BIG PROBLEM.

THEY MAYBE THEY NEED TO PUT A TRAFFIC LIGHT IN HERE THAT WOULD SOLVE SOME OF THE PROBLEMS. YOU'VE GOT SEVERAL DIFFERENT, UH, PROPERTIES HERE THAT ARE ZONED OFF THE, THE MAIN PARKINS ROAD THAT ARE ZONED COMMERCIAL ARE IN TRANSITION.

THIS PROPERTY HERE GOES AT LEAST 60 FOOT FURTHER BACK INTO THE RESIDENTIAL ZONE THAN WHAT OUR PROPOSED PROPERTY HERE IS.

NUMBER SEVEN, THIS IS ON COMMERCIAL.

SO THERE'S SEVERAL OTHER PROPERTIES.

THEY'RE NOT SPEAKING ACCURATELY WHEN THEY COME UP HERE, THE, TO THE, TO THE, TO THE MICROPHONE AND YOU HAVE 210 FEET HERE OF NEUTRAL ZONE HERE, WE CAN PUT 25 PARKING SPACES RIGHT THERE.

UH, IF, IF THE COUNCIL WANTED TO APPROVE THAT, IT'S PLENTY OF PARKING RIGHT IN THIS AREA.

I JUST THINK PEOPLE JUST DON'T LIKE COMMERCIAL PROPERTY AND I'M MOVING IN FAVOR OF IT.

SO THANK YOU.

AT THIS TIME, I'LL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND INVITING IN QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FROM COMMISSIONERS, VICE CHAIRMAN DROP.

I'VE BEEN SEEING SOME OF THE EMAIL TRAFFIC GO BACK AND FORTH, OR SOME OF THE, UM, UH, SOME OF THE REQUESTS THAT HAVE COME IN OR THE, UM, UH, COMMENTS THAT HAVE COME IN.

UM, I THINK THE THING THAT, THAT FOR ME IS THIS PROPERTY, UH, DOES NOT FRONT ON PERKINS AND THE OTHER PROPERTIES IN QUESTION DO, UH, THIS IS A RESIDENTIAL AREA.

UM, I UNDERSTAND THIS IS KIND OF A, UH, FORGIVENESS AS OPPOSED TO FORGIVENESS NOW, AS OPPOSED TO REQUEST IT FOR FUTURE.

UM, IF THESE WERE HOME-BASED BUSINESSES, I HAD A HOME-BASED BUSINESS FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD.

THAT'S HOW I PRACTICED, BUT, UM, I DIDN'T HAVE CLIENTS COME TO THE DOOR.

I DIDN'T HAVE A LOT OF PARKING.

I DIDN'T HAVE EIGHT UNITS IN MY HOUSE, SO I I'M, I'M VERY HESITANT TO LET THIS MOVE FORWARD.

SO I'M, I MAKE A MOTION THAT WE DENY.

THERE'S A MOTION ON THE FLOOR FROM VICE-CHAIRMAN GROUT TO DENY THIS ITEM.

IS THERE A SECOND FOR THAT MOTION? SECOND FROM COMMISSIONER HILL.

ARE THERE ANY OBJECTIONS, ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? SEE, NONE THAT ITEM HAS BEEN DENIED.

THOSE ITEMS, EXCUSE ME.

I'VE BEEN DENIED.

NO, IT'S JUST ONE.

WE'LL MOVE ON TO ITEM NUMBER FIVE, PLAN AMENDMENT 1822 SCOTLANDVILLE SMALLER AREA PLAN.

AT THIS TIME WE MOVE ON TO ITEM NUMBER.

YEAH, IT WAS ITEM NUMBER THREE AND FOUR THAT HAD BEEN DENIED AT THIS TIME.

[5. PA-18-22 Scotlandville Small Area Plan The Scotlandville Plan focuses on the area of Scotlandville bounded by Blount Road to the north, Plank Road to the east, Airline Highway to the south and the KCS railroad to the west (Council District 2-Banks and 10-Coleman) PLANNING STAFF FINDINGS: Planning Commission staff recommends approval, considering consistency with the comprehensive plan and the public engagement process utilized by CPEX in partnership with Southern University]

SO THIS IS A REQUEST THAT CAME TO US, UH, DIRECTLY FROM THE CENTER OF PLANNING EXCELLENCE.

IT'S A REQUEST TO ADOPT THE SCOTLAND BILL OF SMALL AREA PLAN.

THE PLAN WAS DEVELOPED BY CPX,

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WORKING IN CONJUNCTION WITH SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE SCOTLANDVILLE COMMUNITY.

YOU HAD COPIES OF THIS PLAN GIVEN TO YOU AT LAST MONTH'S MEETING.

SO YOU HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW IT IN ADVANCE BY ADOPTING THIS PLAN.

WHAT WE'LL BE DOING IS AMENDING THE DESIGN AND NEIGHBORHOOD ELEMENT OR FUTURE BR TO ACKNOWLEDGE THIS AS AN OFFICIAL UPDATE TO THE OLDER, SMALLER AIRPLANE DONE BACK IN 2011 WILL BE REQUIRED TO REVIEW ALL FUTURE DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS WITHIN THESE BOUNDARIES FOR CONSISTENCY, WITH THIS SMALL AIR PLAN, THE PLAN IDENTIFIES APPROPRIATE LAND, USE TRANSPORTATION, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, CULTURE, HEALTH, AND SAFETY ACTION ITEMS THAT ARE RECOMMENDED TO ENHANCE THE CHARACTER OF THIS AREA.

STAFF RECOMMENDS APPROVAL, CONSIDERING CONSISTENCY WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND THE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT PROCESS UTILIZED BY CPX IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY.

I WAITED FOR MOST, AT THIS TIME, I'LL OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING AND INVITE THE APPLICANT TO SPEAK FOR A PERIOD, NOT TO EXCEED 15 MINUTES.

MY NAME IS KIM MARECIC I'M WITH THE CENTER FOR PLANNING EXCELLENCE, AND I WANT IT TO, FIRST OF ALL, THANK COUNCIL MEMBERS, BANKS, AND COLEMAN FOR THEIR LEADERSHIP AND PARTICIPATION THROUGHOUT THIS PLANNING PROCESS AND AS WELL, THANK THE STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND PARTICIPANTS IN THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO ALL PARTICIPATED THROUGH THIS PLANNING PROCESS.

UM, AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT THE SCOTLAND BELL COMMUNITY STRATEGIC PLAN.

THIS PLANNING PROCESS, AS YOU MENTIONED, WAS COMMUNITY DRIVEN EFFORT AND IS DESIGNED TO SHOW THE LONG-TERM DESIRES AND NEEDS OF SCOTLANDVILLE STAKEHOLDERS.

IT SHOULD HELP GUIDE DECISIONS MAKING, UH, DECISION-MAKING IN THE ARENA AND ALSO PROVIDE PREDICTABILITY TO INVESTORS, DEVELOPERS, AND FUTURE PARTNERS WHO CAN HELP IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THESE PLAN ELEMENTS.

UM, IT ALSO PROVIDES A GUIDE FOR SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY TO BUILD PARTNERSHIP WITHIN THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM, ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS AND OTHER COMMUNITY INVESTMENT.

THIS PLAN IS YOU MENTIONED AS AN UPDATE TO THE 2011 SCOTLANDVILLE COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN THAT WAS ADOPTED BY THE CITY PARISH, UM, IN 2020 SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY HIRED CPX TO UPDATE THEIR CAMPUS MASTER PLAN, AND ALSO REQUESTED THAT WE UPDATE THE SCOTLANDVILLE COMMUNITY PLAN AT THE SAME TIME TO STRENGTHEN CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE UNIVERSITY AND THE COMMUNITY.

THE CAMPUS PLAN WAS COMPLETED LAST FALL, AND WE HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH THE COMMUNITY AND THE PLANNING COMMISSION TO COMPLETE THIS COMMUNITY PLAN.

IS THE PRESENTATION SHOWING OR NO, I'M SORRY.

OH, OKAY.

AND WE KEEP GOING.

UM, SO WE HAVE HAD EXTENSIVE PUBLIC OUTREACH THROUGH THE PROCESS.

WE STARTED PLANNING THIS PLANNING EFFORT RIGHT BEFORE COVID AND HAD TO SHIFT GEARS AND THE ENGAGEMENT PROCESS WITH THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS.

AND WE HAD OVER 60 COMMUNITIES, STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS.

UM, WE WENT THROUGH A SURVEY PROCESS AND HAD 550 RESPONSES, SIX STAKEHOLDER GROUP MEETINGS, A COUPLE OF OUTDOOR PUBLIC MEETINGS MEETINGS WITH SCOTLANDVILLE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TO OBTAIN INPUT.

UH, WE WORKED WITH LSU AND SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY LANDSCAPE AGRICULTURE OR AGRICULTURAL STUDENTS FOR INPUT ON DESIGN STRATEGIES.

AND WE HAD TWO PUBLIC MEETINGS ON THE DRAFT PLAN IN JANUARY OVERALL, THE RECOMMENDATIONS CENTER AROUND FIVE TOPIC AREAS, UM, THRIVING COMMUNITY, WHICH REFERS BACK TO EDUCATIONAL AND WORKFORCE TRAINING AND SUPPORTING COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT, WELCOMING NEIGHBORHOODS TO ENCOURAGE A GREATER VARIETY OF HOUSING TYPES TO ADDRESS VACANT PROPERTIES AND ASSIST RESIDENTS WITH HOME OWNERSHIP AND NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENTS, UH, COMMUNITY IMAGE AND BEAUTIFICATION, WHICH FOCUSES ON PUBLIC ART STREETSCAPE IMPROVEMENTS AND TO IMPROVE THE LOOK OF ROADWAY AND FACILITATE SAFE WALKING AND BIKING AND THE COMMUNITY HEALTHY COMMUNITIES TO ADDRESS FOOD INSECURITIES, INCENTIVIZE PURINE DEVELOPMENT, AND ADDRESS HEALTH DISPARITIES, CONNECTING SCOTLANDVILLE AND SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY AND BEYOND TO HIGHLIGHT THE HISTORIC CULTURAL SPACES AND CREATE PARTNERSHIP FOR COMMUNITY UNIVERSITY ENGAGEMENT.

IN ADDITION, THE OVERALL RECOMMENDATION, THERE'S FIVE SUB-DISTRICTS INCLUDING A MIXED USE CORRIDOR ALONG SCENIC SCOTLANDVILLE AVENUE AND PARTS OF HARDING, A NEIGHBORHOOD MIXED USE IN THE AREA BETWEEN SCENIC HIGHWAY IN SCOTLANDVILLE AVENUE, A UNIVERSITY CORRIDOR ALONG HARDING, SOUTH OF SOUTHERN AND NEIGHBORHOOD INFILL AND NEIGHBORHOOD PRESERVATION IN THE RESIDENTIAL AREAS.

UM, THROUGHOUT THE PLANNING WORK, WE MADE SURE THAT ALL TO RECOGNIZE ALL OF THE GREAT WORK THAT HAS BEEN ONGOING IN THE SCOTLAND VILLAGE AREA AND TO BUILD UPON THOSE STRATEGIES.

SO FOR EXAMPLE, UM, BUILDING ON THE PUBLIC INVESTMENT ALONG SWAN AVENUE TO CREATE A UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOOD RETAIL SERVICE AREA BUILDING AND EXPANDING UPON THE EXISTING FACADE IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM AND IDENTIFYING INFILL, UH, OPPORTUNITIES TO, UH, SUPPORT EXISTING

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NEIGHBORHOODS.

IN ADDITION, WE'VE BEEN FINALIZING THE PLAN SEVERAL IMPLEMENTATION PROGRAMS HAVE BEEN INITIATED.

WE RECENTLY PARTNERED WITH COUNCILWOMAN BANKS AND THE J J JUUL NEWMAN COMMUNITY CENTER TO MAKE ACCESSIBILITY IMPROVEMENTS ON AND AROUND THE COMMUNITY CENTER.

UH, C PEX WORKED WITH COUNCILWOMAN BANKS ALSO TO SECURE A GRANT TO ASSIST RESONANCE AND APPLYING FOR WEATHERIZATION IMPROVEMENTS TO THEIR HOMES.

THESE IMPROVEMENTS WILL THEN ALLOW THEM TO APPLY FOR SOLAR GRANTS TO REDUCE ENERGY COSTS.

AND IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS, ALMOST 200 HOUSEHOLDS HAVE PARTICIPATED IN THAT PROGRAM.

THERE'S CURRENTLY A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF INTEREST WORK ENERGY GOING ON IN SCOTT LOUISVILLE.

AND THIS PLAN SEEKS TO PROVIDE A FRAMEWORK FOR FUTURE PARTNERSHIP TO ACHIEVE THE GOALS AND STRATEGIES OVER THE LONG-TERM.

THE PLAN IS NOT INTENDED TO REQUIRE COMMITMENTS BY ANY SPECIFIC GROUPS, BUT RATHER TO SHOW THAT THE COMMUNITY HAS A SHARED VISION AND A COMMON GOAL THAT SHOULD HELP ENCOURAGE FUTURE INVESTMENT TO MAKE SCOTLANDVILLE, UM, ALL THAT ITS RESIDENTS ENVISION IT TO BE.

AND THEN SHE REMEMBERS WE DID NOT HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL SPEAKER CARDS.

SO AT THIS TIME I WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND INVITE ANY QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, EMOTIONS.

UM, WOW.

UH, BASICALLY, UH, SOMEWHAT SPEECHLESS BECAUSE, UH, USUALLY WHEN, UH, WE PARTNER WITH AGENCIES OUTSIDE OF A COMMUNITY, FOR ME, IT TAKES ME A MINUTE TO TRUST AND, UM, AND BELIEVES THAT THEY ARE REALLY THERE TO HEAR THE PEOPLE AND NOT FORCE THEIR VISION ON THEM.

AND IT, THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT C PEG SHOWED OUR COMMUNITY.

UM, I DIDN'T REALIZE IT HAD BEEN BEFORE THE PANDEMIC.

UM, SO ACTUALLY THEY'VE BEEN WORKING IN THE COMMUNITY FOR THREE YEARS AND IT DIDN'T STOP DURING A PANDEMIC.

THEY WERE THERE FOR THE, ALL THE COMMUNITY EVENTS.

THEY WERE THERE FOR SCOTLAND BEER SATURDAY, A YEAR ROUND, ANY EVENT WE HAD AT BRICK IN THE AND COMMUNITY.

SO I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHEN THEY WEREN'T THERE DURING THE PANDEMIC.

AND, UM, THERE WERE PHENOMENAL, UH, LANESHA.

I KNOW SHE'S ON VACATION, BUT IT GOT TO THE POINT WHERE, UM, LANESHA WAS LIKE AN EMPLOYEE AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER.

SO THEY WILL CALL ME AND SAY, LANESHA SAID, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE THAT IS THE KIND OF ENGAGEMENT, UM, THAT CPX PROVIDED JUST THIS YEAR.

SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY HAS AN INCREASE OF FRESHMEN OF 2,500 STUDENTS TO, UH, REACH THEIR 20, 30, UM, GOALS TO HAVE OVER 30,000, UM, STUDENTS.

WE HAVE TO BE ABLE TO OFFER THEM SOMETHING WITHIN THE COMMUNITY OF SCOTLAND BILL, AS IT RELATES TO HOUSING, RECREATION, PARKING, ALL OF THOSE THINGS.

SO THIS AS, UH, THIS NOT ONLY HAS CAUSED AN EXTREME ATTENTION TO OUR SCOTLAND VIA COMMUNITY, BUT IT WILL HELP SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY TO HAVE STUDENTS THAT LIVE WORK, PLAY IN THE SAME.

SO UNLESS MY COLLEAGUE CAROLYN COLEMAN, WHO REPRESENTS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY ON HIS COUNCIL, HAVE COMMENTS ON BEHALF OF HER AND I, I LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE.

UM, AND IF SHE WILL KIND OF TALK ABOUT THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY PART OF THIS, UH, THE COUNTERPART THERE, I CONCUR WITH YOU.

AND, UH, JUST WAIT FOR SOMEONE TO SECOND THAT, SO, YES, MA'AM THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER COLEMAN.

SO WE HAVE A MOTION ON THE FLOOR FROM COMMISSIONER BANKS TO APPROVE THIS ITEM.

I BELIEVE THAT MOTION HAS RECEIVED A SECOND FROM VICE CHAIRMAN GROUT.

ARE THERE ANY OBJECTIONS TO APPROVING THIS ITEM? I THINK NONE, THAT ITEM HAS BEEN APPROVED.

MR. CHAIRMAN, THE NEXT THREE ITEMS MAY BE TAKEN TOGETHER ITEMS EIGHT, NINE, AND 10.

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LOCATED SOUTH SIDE OF NORTH BOULEVARD, WEST OF SOUTH 10TH STREET, NORTH SIDE OF INTERSTATE 10 AND EAST OF SAN LOUIS STREET CONCERT DISTRICT 10 COLEMAN.

AT THIS TIME, WE WILL HEAR ITEM NUMBER EIGHT, TEXT AMENDMENT 6 22, BEAUREGARD TOWN, LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT ITEM NUMBER NINE, CASE 57, 22 BEAUREGARD TOWN, LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT OVERLAY AND ITEM NUMBER 10, BEAUREGARD TOWN DESIGN GUIDELINES CASE 57 20 TO BOTH REGARD NOW HISTORIC OVERLAY DISTRICT RELATED TO A 6 22 IN BEAUREGARD TOWN DESIGN GUIDELINES.

THE PROPERTY'S

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THE APPLICANT IS BEAUREGARD TOWN CIVIC ASSOCIATION.

THE APPLICANT REQUEST TO REVISE THE OFFICIAL SOWN IN DISTRICT MAP TO DESIGNATE HISTORIC DISTRICTS.

THE FUTURE LANGUAGE ASSIGNATION IS PARK COMPACT NEIGHBORHOOD INSTITUTIONAL MIX USE DOWNTOWN COURT CASE 57, 22, BOTH REGARD TOWN HISTORIC OVERLAY DISTRICT RELATED TO A 6 22 AND BEAUREGARD TOWN DESIGN GUIDELINES.

MR. CHAIRMAN MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION.

YEAH, THESE THREE ITEMS AGAIN, THESE THREE ITEMS, ITEM EIGHT, TEXT AMENDMENT 6 22, ITEM NINE, REZONING CASE 57 22 AND ITEM 10 BOGART TOWN DESIGN GUIDELINES WILL BE TAKEN, UH, AS ONE PUBLIC HEARING AND VOTED ON TOGETHER.

I'LL GIVE A BRIEF SUMMARY FOR THE RECORD.

IN 2009, BOGART TOWN CIVIC ASSOCIATION REACHED OUT TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION OFFICE WITH THE REQUEST TO DEVELOP A BUILDING SURVEY AND DESIGN GUIDELINES FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

IN JULY OF 2019, STAFF RECEIVED A GRANT FUNDING TO DEVELOP THESE MATERIALS.

A STRUCTURE SURVEY WAS COMPLETED IN OCTOBER, 2020, AND THE DESIGN WERE ACCEPTED BY THE STATE OFFICE OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN JANUARY, 2021.

IN FEBRUARY OF THE SAME YEAR PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF SENT OUT A COMMUNITY QUESTIONNAIRE AS REQUIRED BEFORE FORMING ANY FORM OF LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT APPLICATION.

ON JUNE 2ND, THE BOGART TOWN CIVIC ASSOCIATION FORMALLY SUBMITTED THE APPLICATION FOR A LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT.

SINCE JULY OF 2019 PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF HAS ATTENDED AND HELD FOUR COMMUNITY MEETINGS AND POSTED TWO ROUNDS OF DOOR HANGERS RELATED TO THE BUILDING SURVEY.

THE LOCAL HISTORIC APPLICATION WAS HEARD BY THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION FIVE TIMES AND APPROVED BY A VOTE OF THREE TO ONE AT THEIR JULY 13TH, 2022 MEETING THE PROPOSED LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT WOULD REGULATE THREE ITEMS IF APPROVED NEW CONSTRUCTION ADDITIONS THAT ARE VISIBLE FROM THE STREET AND RENOVATIONS TO COMMERCIAL STRUCTURES.

THE DESIGN GUIDELINES WHILE NOT REGULATORY ARE NECESSARY FOR THE DESIGNATION OF A LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT, A PROVISION CALLED DEMOLITION BY NEGLECT WAS PREVIOUSLY INCLUDED IN THE OVERLAY, BUT WAS TAKEN OUT AFTER SUBSTANTIAL INPUT FROM THE RESIDENTS OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD STAFF CERTIFIES THAT THE PROPOSED UDC AMENDMENT IS CONSISTENT WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN STAMP.

ALSO CERTIFIES THAT THE PROPOSED REZONING REQUEST MEETS THE CRITERIA FOR CHANGE OF ZONING AND CONSISTENT WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN COMPATIBLE WITH SURROUNDING USES AND CONFORMING TO UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE REQUIREMENTS.

LASTLY, STAFF CERTIFIES THAT THE PROPOSED DESIGN GUIDELINES WERE DONE IN ACCORDANCE WITH STANDARDS SET BY THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.

THE FEDERAL AGENCY TASKED WITH HISTORIC PRESERVATION.

THE PLANNING COMMISSION OFFICE HAS RECEIVED 16 MESSAGES OF SUPPORT AND FOUR MESSAGES OF OPPOSITION.

SQUARE, AS, AS INDICATED HERE ON, ON MY T-SHIRT, UH, THE NEIGHBORHOOD GREW AND WAS KNOWN AS THE FRENCH PART OF BATON ROUGE IN 1862 BEAUREGARD TOWN, ALONG WITH THE REST OF DOWNTOWN, IT WAS OCCUPIED BY FEDERAL TROOPS AND IN MANY OF THE STRUCTURES WERE DESTROYED.

AT THIS TIME, I'LL OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING AND INVITE THE APPLICANT TO SPEAK FOR A PERIOD, NOT TO EXCEED 15 MINUTES.

GOOD EVENING EVERYONE.

UH, MY NAME IS JEFF KINI.

UH, I LIVE AT 7 28 EAST BOULEVARD IN BEAUREGARD TOWN.

AND, UM, I'M HERE TO REPRESENT THE APPLICATION FOR LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT.

I WANT TO POINT OUT THAT, UH, IT'S INTERESTING THE CASE THAT WAS BROUGHT JUST EARLIER, UH, BEFORE I START, UM, THAT THE VERY ISSUE THAT THE RESIDENTS OF A HUNDRED OAKS ARE HAVING WITH ENCROACHMENT AND THEIR HISTORIC NEIGHBORHOOD, UM, ARE SOME OF THE SAME ISSUES THAT A LOCAL STORAGE DISTRICT WOULD HELP ADDRESS BEFORE IT CAME TO Y'ALL.

AND I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE HERE.

UM, AS MOST OF, YOU KNOW, BEAUREGARD TOWN IS ONE, THE OLDEST NEIGHBORHOODS IN BATON ROUGE, IT IS A VERY DIVERSE COMMUNITY OF RESIDENTIAL AND BUSINESS USE, INCLUDING SEVERAL MUSEUMS, GOVERNMENTAL FACILITIES AND RESTAURANTS, AND TO KIND OF GO BACK TO THE VERY BEGINNING OF BEAUREGARD TOWN.

UM, IT WAS FOUNDED IN 1806, IT'S NOW OVER 200 YEARS OLD, IT WAS DESIGNED BY ELIAS BEAUREGARD AND THE FRENCH ENGINEER LATOUR.

IT WAS DESIGNED WITH TREELINE BOULEVARDS, RADIATING STREETS, AND AS CENTRAL TO CATHEDRAL

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ALTHOUGH BEAUREGARD TOWNS SUFFERED FROM THESE TREES, UH, FROM THESE LOSSES RECONSTRUCTION OF HOUSES, BUSINESSES AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS OCCURRED WITH VIGOR BETWEEN 1,919 30 IN 1979.

BEAUREGARD TOWN WAS NOMINATED TO THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES AS AN ARCHITECTURALLY SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF HISTORIC DOWNTOWN BATON ROUGE.

HOWEVER, IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THIS DESIGNATION DOES NOT PROVIDE PROTECTION FROM THE LOSS OF THOSE HISTORIC STRUCTURES AND THE CULTURE THAT MAKES BORIC OR, OR TOWN UNIQUE TO THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE IN THE LATE 1990S PRESERVATION OF THE HISTORIC CHARACTER OF BEAUREGARD TOWN BEGAN IN EARNEST.

UM, THE BEAUREGARD TOWN CIVIC ASSOCIATION HAS BEEN A MAJOR CONTRIBUTOR TO THIS EFFORT AND ITS MISSION TO PRESERVE THE HISTORICAL CHARACTER IN AND OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND IMPROVE UPON VARIOUS SAFETY AND BEAUTIFICATION ISSUES ALONG WITH, UM, REPRESENT THE COMMUNITY IN THE INTEREST OF FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS, TO ADD A LITTLE MORE PERSPECTIVE TO THE HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF BEAUREGARD TOWN, SPANISH TOWN, ONLY ONE YEAR OLDER THAN BEAUREGARD TOWN, UM, IS ONE OF THE OTHER LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICTS AND RARE PLACE, WHICH IS ANOTHER ONE OF THE OTHER TWO LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICTS IS A HUNDRED YEARS YOUNGER.

THUS THIS THIRD LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO PRESERVING THE UNIQUE CHARACTER AND THE HISTORY THAT WE HAVE IN THIS CITY.

NOW TO EXPAND A LITTLE BIT ON WHAT MR. HOLCOMB JUST, UH, READ TO YOU ABOUT THE PROCESS THAT WAS DONE.

I WANT TO GO INTO A LITTLE MORE DEEP DEPTH, BECAUSE I WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND THAT THAT THE PROCESS WAS FOLLOWED TO THE T AND THERE WAS A GREAT AMOUNT OF TIME SPENT ON THIS.

THE PRIMARY IMPETUS FOR BECOMING A LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT IS TO PRESERVE THE HISTORICAL CULTURAL FABRIC, CHARACTER INTEGRITY OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

THERE ARE MANY OF US WHO HAVE LIVED IN BEAUREGARD TOWN FOR MANY GENERATIONS, AND THOSE THAT HAVE MOVED INTO BEAUREGARD TOWN IN RECENT YEARS, THE REASON THAT PEOPLE CONTINUE TO LIVE IN BEAUREGARD TOWN AND TO MOVE INTO BEAUREGARD TOWN IS BECAUSE OF ITS VERY UNIQUE CHARACTER.

UM, IT IS OUR CIVIC DUTY, UH, TO CONTINUE TO PRESERVE THIS UNIQUE CHARACTER.

UM, AND THAT IS ONE OF THE REASONS, THE PRIMARY REASONS THAT BEAUREGARD TOWN WAS NOMINATED TO BECOME A LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT.

UM, AS MR. HOLCOMB MENTIONED THE BTC OR THE BEAUREGARD TOWN CIVIC ASSOCIATION APPROACHED THE PLANNING COMMISSION IN 2019 WITH A REQUEST TO BEGIN TAKING STEPS NECESSARY FOR BEAUREGARD TOWN TO APPLY FOR THE LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT DESIGNATION.

THESE STEPS INCLUDED PUBLIC MEETINGS, STANDING STRUCTURES, SURVEY, DESIGN GUIDELINES, A COMMUNITY SURVEY, AND THE APPLICATION ITSELF, THE PERS THE FIRST PUBLIC MEETING WAS HELD AT THE DDD DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT TO PROVIDE THE NEIGHBORHOOD WITH INFORMATION ABOUT LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICTS ENGAGE THE SUPPORT AS WHETHER WE SHOULD MOVE FORWARD OR NOT.

THE MEETING WAS VERY POSITIVE WITH NO DISSENTERS AND THUS IT WAS DECIDED TO BEGIN THE PROCESS.

WE WOULD ALSO LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE SUPPORT OF OUR PREVIOUS COUNCIL WOMEN TERRIER WICKER, WHO WAS OUR COUNCIL WOMAN AT THAT TIME WHO WHOLEHEARTEDLY SUPPORTED OUR EFFORTS AND UNDERSTOOD THE BENEFITS OF DESIGNATED BEAUREGARD TOWN, A LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT.

FOLLOWING THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE, THE PROCESS WAS INITIATED A GRANT FROM THE STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICE WAS AWARDED IN JULY 1ST, 2019 TO DEVELOP A STRUCTURE SURVEY AND DESIGN GUIDELINES.

THE PLANNING COMMISSION HOSTED A BEAUREGARD TOWN COMMUNITY MEETING ON SEPTEMBER 11TH, 2019 TO INFORM THE RESIDENTS AND THE PROPERTY OWNERS OF GRANT AWARDED A PUBLIC MEETING WAS HELD ON JULY 15TH, 2020 TO UPDATE THE RESIDENTS AND THE PROPERTY OWNERS ON THE COMPLETED STANDING STRUCTURE SURVEY.

SO IT TOOK ABOUT A YEAR TO DO THIS.

THE SURVEY WAS COMPLETED AND NOTIFICATION WAS RECEIVED FROM THE LOUISIANA DIVISION OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION UNDER THE OFFICE OF CULTURE AND TOURISM THAT THE STRUCTURE SURVEY MET ALL CRITERIA FOR APPROVAL IN JANUARY, 2021.

FROM THAT POINT ON, IT WAS CONSIDERED AN APICAL BUILDING SURVEY FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION TO SUBMIT THE OFFICIAL LIST OF SUB SURVEY STRUCTURES WAS CERTIFIED BY THE LOUISIANA HISTORIC RESOURCES INVENTORY.

AS ANOTHER CHECK TO ENSURE THAT THE BUILDING SURVEY HAD BEEN CERTIFIED

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BY THE STATE NEXT, A COMMUNITY SURVEY FOR LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT DESIGNATION WAS MAILED TO THE LAST KNOWN PROPERTY OWNER USING THE MOST RECENT LIST OF PROPERTIES FROM THE CITY PARISH TAX ASSESSOR'S OFFICE 584 QUESTIONNAIRE FORMS WERE MAILED TO PROPERTY OWNERS IN BEAUREGARD TOWN.

THE QUESTIONNAIRE WAS USED TO GAUGE THE INTEREST OF BECOMING A LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT AND ASCERTAIN THE LEVELS SUPPORT FOR POTENTIAL REGULATIONS.

ALONG WITH THE PHYSICAL QUESTIONNAIRE, A SURVEY MONKEY FORM WAS PROVIDED ON THE PLANNING COMMISSION WEBSITE AND THEY TOOK QUESTIONNAIRES BY VIA EMAIL, THE PLANNING COMMISSION POSTED DOOR HANGERS, AND WE HELP THEM ON EACH PROPERTY IN THE AREA TO BE SURVEYED IN EARLY JANUARY, 2020, WITH THE INFORMATION ABOUT THE SURVEY WORK TO COME, THE PLANNING COMMISSION ALSO HOSTED A BEAUREGARD TOWN MEETING ON FEBRUARY 12TH, 2020 TO INFORM RESIDENTS OF THE PROPERTY OWNERS OF THE SURVEY WORK TO BE DONE IN THE COMING MONTHS.

THE QUESTIONNAIRE WAS THEN MAILED OUT IN MID FEBRUARY AND GIVEN A SOFT DEADLINE OF MARCH 20 OR MARCH 17TH, 2020, TO GET THE RESPONSES, THE PLANNING COMMISSION THEN POSTED A SECOND ROUND OF DOOR HANGERS ON EACH STRUCTURE ONCE SURVEY TO INFORM PROPERTY OWNERS OF WHERE TO GO WITH QUESTIONS AND ALSO WHERE TO SEEK INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROCESS.

SO OUT OF 156 RESPONDENTS TO THE SURVEY, 150 114 WERE IN FAVOR OF THE SURVEY.

114 WERE IN FAVOR OF THIS SURVEY FOR IN FAVOR OF LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT.

AND 42 WERE NOT IN FAVOR OF LOCAL STORY DISTRICT.

THAT IS APPROXIMATELY 73% OF THE RESPONDENTS WERE IN FAVOR OF A LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT.

AND 27% WERE NOT, THIS WAS AN OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF RESPONDENTS IN FAVOR OF A LOCAL STORY DISTRICT DESIGNATION.

I WOULD LIKE TO NOTE HERE THAT THE PERCENTAGE OF RESPONDENTS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD TO THIS SURVEY WAS APPROXIMATELY 27%.

THIS MAY SEEM LIKE A LOW RESPONSE RATE.

UM, BUT AGAIN, TO PUT THIS IN PERSPECTIVE, UM, THIS PERCENTAGE IS SIMILAR TO THE PERCENTAGE OF ELIGIBLE VOTERS THAT CAST THE VOTES IN AN ELECTION, UH, LOCAL ELECTIONS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES.

AND IN ALSO IN COMPARISON, 25% OF ELIGIBLE VOTERS, ELECTED COUNCILWOMAN COLON, AND OUR LACK IN OUR LOCAL ELECTION.

THAT'S THE 27% RESPONSE RATE THAT WE GOT WAS EXTRAORDINARILY HIGH FOR THIS SURVEY.

GIVEN THAT OUTCOME, THE PUBLIC MEETING FOR PROPOSED LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT THEN TOOK PLACE ON JULY 14TH, 2021.

THE DESIGN GUIDELINES FOR THE POST PROPOSED LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT WERE THEN DRAFTED WITH INPUT FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD THAT WERE CONSISTENT WITH THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR STANDARD FOR TREATMENT OF HISTORIC PROPERTIES.

THE STATE DIVISION OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION APPROVED THE DRAFT OF THE BEAUREGARD TOWN DESIGN GUIDELINES ON OCTOBER 28TH, 2020, A DRAFT OF THE DESIGN GUIDELINES WAS POSTED ON THE PLANNING COMMISSION'S WEBSITE, THE PLANNING COMMISSION THEN HOSTED A BEAUREGARD TOWN OPEN HOUSE ON APRIL 20TH, 2021 TO GIVE RESIDENTS AND OWNERS PROPERTY OWNERS THAT TIME TO MANAGE A CHANCE TO READ THROUGH THE DRAFT OF THE DESIGN GUIDELINES AND THE PROPOSED BOUNDARIES THAT YOU SEE TODAY FOR THE LOCALIST STORY DISTRICT, SO THAT THEY COULD PROVIDE COMMENTS AND ASK QUESTIONS.

PART COPIES OF THIS INFORMATION WAS ALSO MADE AVAILABLE, UH, AT THE, UH, PUBLIC LIBRARY.

AND THEY WERE ALSO POSTED ONLINE THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA NEXT DOOR, THE ADVOCATE, PHYSICAL POSTINGS, AND NEIGHBORHOODS AND POSTCARDS MAILED TO THE PROPERTY OWNERS.

IT'S VERY, IT'S VERY IMPORTANT.

UM, I THINK TO POINT OUT THAT THERE HAS BEEN OVER THREE YEARS, THREE LONG YEARS, AND I EMPHASIZE THREE YEARS OF VERY HARD WORK BY MANY, MANY DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS TO, TO RESPOND TO EVERY POSSIBLE QUESTION AND OPPOSITION TO THIS LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT DESIGNATION.

SOME OF THESE RESPONSES INCLUDE THERE WERE THREE DEFERMENTS, UM, OF THIS APPLICATION, UM, THAT WERE MADE BY THE CIVIC ASSOCIATION TO THIS STORY PRESERVATION COMMISSION, TO GIVE THOSE WHO HAD MORE QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS, TIME TO BE HURT.

AND TO ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS, THERE WERE OVER 15 PUBLIC MEETINGS HELD TO PROVIDE INFORMATION AND ANSWER QUESTIONS.

THE GUIDELINES WERE CHANGED, UM, TO WHAT WOULD BE CALLED A LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT LIGHT, UM, WHICH HAS VERY MINOR RESTRICTIONS COMPARED TO WHAT SPANISH TOWN AND DREHER PLACE HAVE TODAY.

AND FINALLY, UH, AS WAS MENTIONED, REMOVAL OF DEMOLITION BY NEGLECT, UM, WAS REMOVED BECAUSE OF SOME OF THE CONCERNS BY THE OPPONENTS.

SO I WANT TO POINT OUT HERE THAT THERE WERE A LOT OF, UH, A LOT OF CHANGES MADE IN RESPONSE TO ALL OF THE CONCERNS, THIS STORY,

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DISTRICT NOMINATION AND STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANT SIGNIFICANCE ALONG WITH DESIGN GUIDELINES WERE SUBMITTED TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION ON JUNE 1ST, 2021.

I HAVE HIGHLIGHTED ALL THESE STEPS THAT WERE FOLLOWED WITH APPROVAL BY THE PARISH ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, SO THAT THEY GO ON PUBLIC RECORD, THAT THERE WERE GREAT LINKS MADE TO PROVIDE INFORMATION, ANSWER QUESTIONS, AND GIVE MORE TIME FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.

I ALSO WANT YOU THE PLANNING COMMISSION BOARD TO UNDERSTAND THAT THIS WAS NOT DONE OVERTLY OR WITH DISREGARD TO ANY OF THE PROPERTY OWNERS.

I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO ADDRESS A DOCUMENT CALLED COMPOUNDED ERRORS THAT WAS CIRCULATED IN OPPOSITION TO THE LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT.

EVERY SINGLE POINT THAT WAS BROUGHT FORTH IN THIS DOCUMENT WAS FOUND TO HAVE NO MERIT BY THE PLANNING COMMISSION.

FURTHERMORE, THE PLANNING COMMISSION HAD NOT, HAS NOT BEEN NOTIFIED BY THE PARISH ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, THAT THERE WERE ANY ERRORS DURING THIS ENTIRE PROCESS.

SO THIS APPLICATION HAS FINALLY REACHED YOU THIS EVENING.

I, ALONG WITH THE MAJORITY OF THOSE FOLKS THAT VOTED FOR LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT BEAUREGARD TOWNS, CIVIC ASSOCIATION, AND THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION ASKED YOU TO VOTE IN FAVOR OF THIS APPLICATION AND MOVE IT FORWARD TO THE METRO COUNCIL FOR APPROVAL, A VOTE TO DENY THIS APPLICATION FOR BEAUREGARD TOWN TO BECOME A LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT WOULD BE A VOTE AGAINST THE PRESERVATION OF THIS HISTORIC RESOURCE OF BATON ROUGE THROUGH ITS DESIGNATION OF HAVING ARCHITECTURAL HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL VALUE TO THE CITY, WHICH SHOULD BE PRESERVED, OR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE OF THIS PARISH, NOT JUST A BEAUREGARD TOWN, BUT OF THIS PARISH, ALL THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE HERE AND ALSO FOR ALL THE PEOPLE THAT COME TO VISIT OUR GREAT CITY.

UH, NEXT COURT OR THOSE IN FAVOR IS FOR BARLEY JACKSON.

YOU HAVE THE FLOOR FOR THREE MINUTES.

HAVE NO RELEVANCE THAT AREN'T, UH, NOT TO THE INTEGRITY, TO THE INVESTMENT OF THE CITIZENS OF BEAUREGARD TOWN.

GOOD EVENING MEMBERS.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.

AND, UM, THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK ON THIS.

UM, I SENT YOU AN EMAIL EARLIER TODAY THAT I CALL THE CLIFFSNOTES OF THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE AND WHAT THIS MEANS, ALTHOUGH, UH, MR. HOLCOMB DID AN INCREDIBLE JOB, UH, KIND OF TALKING ABOUT THIS.

AND I THINK MR. CUNY DID JUST, UH, NOW, UM, FAIRLY JACKSON, 39, 4500 X, I'M SORRY, I DIDN'T DO THAT.

ALSO WITH PRESERVED LOUISIANA, OUR MISSION IS CULTURAL AND ARCHITECTURAL PRESERVATION ACROSS OUR STATE.

WE WORK ON THE FEDERAL LEVEL, THE STATE LEVEL AND THE LOCAL LEVEL.

SO THIS IS OBVIOUSLY SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH AND SUPPORTING AND VERY PROUD OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION TEAM FOR THE WORK THAT THEY'VE DONE.

JEFF HAS JUST HIGHLIGHTED A LOT OF THAT WORK.

I'M ALSO VERY PROUD OF THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION.

THERE ARE A LOT OF THE BARRIERS AND QUESTIONS THAT THEY HAVE ACTUALLY BROUGHT THIS TO YOU ALL WITH A FAVORABLE VOTE.

UM, I THINK WE HAVE A MEMBER HERE THAT WILL BE SPEAKING ON THAT AS WELL.

UM, SO THE BODIES GOVERNING THE CITY PARISH AND I WILL BE KEEPING AN EYE ON MY TIME, UM, INCLUDING THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND THE METRO COUNCIL.

YOU ALL HAVE IDENTIFIED THAT PROTECTING THE HISTORIC AND CULTURAL IDENTITY OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS AND OUR CITY PARISH IS KEY IN PLANNING AND REDEVELOPMENT.

YOUR MISSION DEFINITELY IDENTIFIES THE IMPORTANCE OF RESTORATION AND THE FUTURE BE.

OUR PLAN SAYS THAT ONE OF OUR IMPORTANT OBJECTIVES IS TO ENSURE THE BATON ROUGE CONSISTS OF A STRONG IDENTITY AND CHARACTER, AND GOES ON TO SAY THAT THIS INCLUDES FOCUSING ON THE CITY, PARISHES, CIVIC, CULTURAL, ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATIONAL, AND HISTORIC ASSETS.

THESE PRIORITIES THAT YOU ALL HAVE OUTLINED ARE ECHOED ACROSS THE COUNTRY AS COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY RECOGNIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF PROTECTION LIES WITHIN LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICTS.

MR. CUNY MENTIONED THAT A NATIONAL REGISTER DISTRICT DOES NOTHING TO PROTECT THE PROPERTIES OF RESIDENTS OF BEAUREGARD TOWN.

UM, I HAD MANY OTHER THINGS I WAS GOING TO SAY, BUT MR. KUNEY REALLY COVERED IT.

WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SAY IS REALLY TAKE A LOOK AT THE UDC, UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS PROTECTING THE INTEGRITY, THE CULTURE, THE QUALITY OF LIFE, THE MANY GENERATIONS OF INVESTMENT THAT HAVE GONE INTO BEAUREGARD TOWN.

THE RESTRICTIONS ARE ON NEW DEVELOPMENT.

THEY'RE ON PEOPLE THAT COULD COME IN TO BEAUREGARD TOWN, BUY PROPERTIES, PUT UP A FIVE STORY, CONDO COMPLEX.

AND THEN THE PEOPLE THAT ENJOY WALKING BY ALL OF THEIR FAMILY HOMES ARE NOW GOING TO BE BEING LOOKED DOWN UPON BY THESE CONDOS STRUCTURES THAT

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WE WON'T ONLY LOSE A NEIGHBORHOOD.

THIS IS ONE OF OUR OLDEST NEIGHBORHOODS.

WE'LL LOSE THE HISTORY OF GENERATIONS OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE INVESTED IN BEAUREGARD TOWN.

PLEASE CONSIDER THAT THAT IS WHAT CAUSES DISPLACEMENT.

A LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT IS NOT GOING TO DISPLACE PEOPLE, NOT PUTTING REGULATIONS ON NEW DEVELOPMENT AND NOT UNDERSTANDING EXACTLY WHAT THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE REVISIONS MEAN.

THAT IS WHAT COULD CAUSE DISPLACEMENT.

SO THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF, UM, MISCONCEPTIONS.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.

OUR NEXT CARD IS FOR ROBERT MONTANA.

IT DOESN'T WISH TO SPEAK ON NEXT CARD IS FOR KEN WILLIAMS. GOOD EVENING.

MY NAME'S KEN WILLIAMS. UM, I APPRECIATE YOUR PUBLIC SERVICE AND I WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO THANK THE FOLKS WHO BROUGHT US THIS FAR BECAUSE THIS, UM, AS THE NATION OF THE HISTORIC DISTRICT HAS FIRMED FOUNDATION OF LEGITIMACY BASED ON THE HOURS AND HOURS THAT THEY PUT IN TO GET US TO THIS POINT.

UM, I LIVE IN BEAUREGARD TOWN.

I'VE BEEN HERE FOR, UM, 30, 40 YEARS.

I'VE LIVE ON NAPOLEON STREET.

AND, UM, I PARTICULARLY CHOSE THIS NEIGHBORHOOD TO LIVE IN BECAUSE IT'S SPECIAL.

WE THINK OF OURSELVES AS A COMMUNITY OF OUR TOWN OF NEIGHBORHOODS.

THE BEAUREGARD TOWN IS A DISTINGUISHED LITTLE NEIGHBORHOOD.

THAT'S, THAT'S UNLIKE MOST, ANYWHERE ELSE IN THIS TOWN.

IN FACT, IT'S UNLIKE MOST, ANYWHERE ELSE IN AMERICA.

WE'RE ONE OF A HALF DOZEN CITIES WITH A GRID SYSTEM OF STREETS WITH OVERLAYING DIAGONALS, LIKE WASHINGTON, DC AND FONTS DESIGNED NOT TO COMPARE US TO WASHINGTON, BUT, YOU KNOW, W WE HAVE A DISTINGUISHED NATURE TO THIS COMMUNITY.

AND, UM, I THINK WE NEED TO VALUE IT.

THE HISTORIC DISTRICT DESIGNATION ASKS FOR RELATIVELY LITTLE, UM, AND, UH, JUST A WINDOW TO POINT OUT THAT IT MERITS SOME DESIGNATION AS AN HISTORIC DISTRICT, UH, TO KEEP US ON THE MAP, BUT TO BEING A SPECIAL COMMUNITY, WE ARE.

ABOUT HOW BAD THIS IDEA WAS TO TELL PEOPLE WHAT THEY COULD DO WITH THEIR PROPERTY.

OUR NEXT COURT IS FOR SUZANNE TURNER.

AND AGAIN, I THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SERVICE AND FOR YOUR ATTENTION.

UM, ABOUT 40 YEARS AGO, I MOVED BACK TO BATON ROUGE WHERE I'D GROWN UP.

I GREW UP IN BEAUREGARD TOWN VISITING MY GRANDMOTHER WHO RAN A BOARDING HOUSE FOR SINGLE MEN, WORKING AT EXXON, WHICH WAS NEW THEN, SO THAT WE COULD PUT SO THAT SHE COULD PUT MY FATHER THROUGH COLLEGE.

UM, WHEN I CAME BACK TO BATON ROUGE, I DIDN'T WANT TO LIVE IN THE SUBURB WHERE I'D GROWN UP OR ANY OTHER SUBURB, BECAUSE I UNDERSTOOD THROUGH EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE THAT NEIGHBORHOODS ARE THE KIND OF PLACES THAT MAKE PEOPLE FEEL CONNECTED AND ALIVE.

SO I MOVED BACK TO TEACH HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AT LSU.

AND I WILL SAY TO YOU THAT HISTORIC PRESERVATION IS A FAR DIFFERENT ANIMAL TODAY THAN IT WAS THEN.

AND I THINK A MUCH BETTER ANIMAL BECAUSE IT'S ABOUT PEOPLE AND THEIR EXPERIENCES AND THE REAL THINGS THAT CREATE A QUALITY OF LIFE AND NOT RULES AND REGULATIONS.

I DO A LOT OF WORK FOR THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE AND MY GOD.

THERE'S A LOT OF BUREAUCRACY THERE LOVE NATIONAL PARKS AND ALL THAT, BUT NEIGHBORHOOD HISTORIC DISTRICTS ARE REALLY ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE, WHO ARE COMMITTED TO TAKING CARE OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD THAT THEY LOVE.

SINCE I MOVED BACK, I'VE WORKED TO REJUVENATE BEAUREGARD TOWN AS A PLACE TO LIVE.

WHAT HAD BEGUN TO HAPPEN WAS THAT LAWYERS HAD COME IN, BOUGHT A BUILDING, HISTORIC BUILDING, BUT THEIR OFFICE, AND THEN TORN DOWN THE ONE NEXT DOOR SO THAT THEY COULD PUT IN FOUR OR FIVE PARKING SPACES.

AND THAT WAS GOING TO DESTROY THE KIND OF GREAT MIXED USE THAT NEIGHBORHOODS RENT TO HAVE.

NOW, WHEN I FIRST CAME HOME, I WENT TO A MEETING OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION BECAUSE 40 YEARS AGO, THAT WAS THE FIRST PROPOSAL FOR BEAUREGARD TOWN TO BE A HISTORIC DISTRICT.

ONE LAWYER WHO OWNED MOST OF DOWNTOWN STRUTTED DOWN THE AISLE AND GAVE A, I WILL CALL IT A, A SPEECH

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AND THAT WAS ALL THAT IT TOOK.

AND I WAS REALLY DISCOURAGED ABOUT THE PLACE I HAD COME HOME TO.

I HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH THIS WONDERFUL GROUP TO BRING THIS BACK UP, AND I REALLY HOPE THAT YOU ALL WILL APPRECIATE THE EFFORT AND THE, THE REAL CONSENSUS THAT IS BUILT AROUND THIS IDEA.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

OUR NEXT CARD IS FOR MARTHA SALOMON.

MY NAME IS MARTHA SOLOMON AND I'VE LIVE AT 1000 DREAR AVENUE INTERIOR PLACE.

UM, I ALSO OWN PROPERTY IN BOULEVARD TOWN.

UM, WHEN DREAR PLACE DECIDED THAT WE WANTED TO BECOME A LOCALLY DESIGNATED HISTORIC DISTRICT, WE DID A LOT OF RESEARCH AND OUR DESIRE TO BE A LUCKILY DESIGNATED HISTORIC DISTRICT WAS CAME OUT OF OUR BOARD FOR THE GARDEN DISTRICT SPECIFIC ASSOCIATION.

WE FELT LIKE WE HAD THINGS REALLY THAT WE HAD A GREAT NEIGHBORHOOD.

IT WAS IDYLLIC IN A LOT OF WAYS WITH THE SHADE TREES AND THE SIDEWALKS AND LOVELY PEOPLE.

UM, BUT WE DECIDED THAT WE COULDN'T GET ANY BETTER.

WE COULDN'T BE ANY BETTER THAN THE COMMUNITY THAT WE WERE IN.

SO WE STARTED LOOKING AT THINGS WHERE WE COULD REACH OUT TO OUR NEIGHBORS AND, UM, CERTAIN THINGS CAME OF THAT.

SUCH AS THAT WE HAD A BRIEF GOVERNMENT STREET NEIGHBORHOOD COALITION, WHERE WE TRIED TO GET IDEAS FROM OUR NEIGHBORS.

AND THEN WE STARTED RESEARCHING LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICTS WHEN BEAUREGARD TOWNS TRY WHEN THEY TRIED TO BECOME ONE AND IT FAILED.

AND WE DECIDED THAT WE WANTED THAT BATON ROUGE IN ORDER FOR BATON ROUGE TO BE BETTER, THEY NEEDED TO GET MORE, THEY NEEDED TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR MORE HISTORIC PRESERVATION GRANTS.

WE HAVE ASSETS THAT ARE NATIONALLY TREASURED, THAT THAT SHOULD BE NURTURED AND, UM, TAKEN CARE OF AND PEOPLE WHO OWN THESE PROPERTIES SHOULD GET SOME HELP.

SO WE DECIDED THAT WE WOULD PUT DRILL PLACE UP TO TRY TO BE A LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT SO THAT WE COULD GET A CLG IN BATON ROUGE AND, AND EVERYBODY SUPPORTED THAT EFFORT TO REPLACE.

IT'S ONLY TWO BLOCKS, WIDE, SIX BLOCKS LONG.

AND THEN WE STARTED LOOKING AT THE RESEARCH.

THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT HAD DONE QUITE A BIT OF RESEARCH ON THE ISSUE OF BORGHART TOWN AND WHY IT SHOULD BE, SHOULD IT BE A LOCALLY DESIGNATED HISTORIC DISTRICT AND THAT RACIAL SEARCH, THE MODEL THAT THEY BUILT, IT PREDICTED THAT THE PROPERTY VALUE, IF IT WERE LOCALLY DESIGNATED, THE PROPERTY VALUES WOULD GO UP AT LEAST SEVEN TO 8% RIGHT AFTER IT WAS SO DESIGNATED THAT IT WOULD BE A MORE STABLE, STABLE NEIGHBORHOOD WAS STABLE AS THE AREA, UM, THAT, AND WE THOUGHT THAT WAS GOOD ENOUGH.

AND WHEN I RECENTLY WENT BACK TO READ THAT STUDY AGAIN, I DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE IT THE FIRST TIME, BUT THE OTHER THING THAT THEY FOUND THAT WAS EVEN MORE AMAZING, IT SAID THAT IT, UM, IT WOULD STABILIZE LESS AFFLUENT NEIGHBORHOODS SURROUNDING THE LOCALLY DESIGNATED HISTORIC DISTRICT TO A GREATER DEGREE.

AND THE PROPERTY VALUES WOULD RISE AND DOES ADJACENT NEIGHBORHOODS EVEN TO A GREATER DEGREE THAN THEY WOULD IN THE LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT.

AND THEN I STARTED LOOKING AROUND OR YOUR PLACE.

AND I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE BEEN AWARE OF ALL THE INFILL DEVELOPMENT IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD BETWEEN EUGENE AND ST.

ROSE, BUT THINGS ARE GOING GREAT AROUND US.

WELL, THANK YOU.

OUR NEXT CARD IS FOR LARRY FERMAN.

MY NAME IS LARRY BERMAN.

I LIVE IN JERSEY PLACE THEN THEIR 12.

SO YOUR MIND PICKING THE MIC UP A LITTLE BIT.

WE CAN HEAR YOU.

I LIVE AT PLACE.

I'VE BEEN THERE FOR 12 YEARS.

FOR 20 YEARS.

I SAT ON THE, UH, THE BOARD FOR HISTORICAL LOUISIANA.

I MEAN THE, UH, ANYWAY, I'M SORRY.

I'VE MESSED UP.

ANYWAY.

I WAS ON THE, UH, THE BOARD FOR 20 YEARS.

SO I KNOW THE VALUE OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND THE NEED AND WHAT WE'RE SEEING RIGHT NOW.

AND SOME OF THE GREAT LOSSES THAT ARE OCCURRING IN OUR TOWN.

THERE'S NO EXCUSE FOR IT.

EXCEPT FOR

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NEGLECT.

I HAVE SEVEN PROPERTIES IN BEAUREGARD TOWN.

THEY ARE DATE FROM 1849 TO 1859 IN CONSTRUCTION.

THEY'RE MAINTAINED.

THEY'RE BROUGHT UP TO CURRENT STANDARDS.

THERE'S A WAITING LIST FOR THEM IS A VERY, VERY DESIRABLE NEIGHBORHOOD.

WE NEED TO PRESERVE IT MAINLY AS RESIDENTIAL, BUT WE DO HAVE A COMMERCIAL ENCROACHMENT, BUT THEY HAVE MADE EVERY ATTEMPT TO ASSIMILATE AND LOOK LIKE THE REST OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

ALL I ASK IS THAT WE ALLOW THIS DISTRICT SO THAT WE CAN CONTINUE THE PRESERVATION BECAUSE WHEN IT'S GONE, IT DOESN'T COME BACK.

GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYBODY.

MY NEXT CARD IS FOR SAMUEL AYERS.

ALL RIGHT.

5 1 6 ST.

NAPOLEON STREET, ALICE WINFIELD, TWO BORN IN 1879.

SHE WAS A HOMEMAKER.

SHE ALMOST LIVED TO A HUNDRED YEARS OLD.

SHE LIVED THERE WITH HER HUSBAND, MICHAEL WINFIELD.

HE WAS BORN IN 1858.

HE WAS A BARKEEPER AT BIG JIM SALOON OF A NATCHEZ STREET, WHICH IS NOW RIVER ROAD.

THEY LIVED THERE WITH HIS BROTHER, MACK, WINFIELD, AND HIS WIFE, ALMA WINFIELD.

HE WAS AN UNDERTAKER AND SHE WAS A SCHOOL TEACHER AT 6 0 1 FRANK STREET, MR. LAMBERTON WASHBURN.

HE WAS A CARPENTER AND HE LIVED THERE WITH HIS WIFE, FANNY IN THE 1930S AND 5 1 7 SPAIN STREET, MS. ALICE T BERIO BORN 1867.

SHE WAS A HOMEMAKER AND A TEACHER AND HER HUSBAND, MR. JACOB, BERRYHILL BORN 1862, MAYBE, UH, OWNED A RESTAURANT OFF OF MAIN STREET.

THESE THREE HOMES HAVE ALL BEEN DESTROYED IN THE LAST THREE YEARS AND THEY WERE ALL OWNED BY AFRICAN-AMERICANS ORIGINALLY IN THE CASE OF MR BERRYHILL AND MR. WINFIELD, THEY WEREN'T ENSLAVED.

AND YET THEY PERSEVERED AND BECAME HOMEOWNERS.

AND I'M SICK OF SEEING THESE BEING DESTROYED.

THEY WERE REGULAR FOLKS HELP BUILD THIS NEIGHBORHOOD, THEIR HISTORY, THEIR STORY IS BEING ERASED AND THESE MARKERS OF THEIR SUCCESS AND THEIR HISTORY AND THEIR TO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD IS BEING ELIMINATED.

AND IT WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO.

IF WE DO NOT HAVE THE PROTECTIONS OF THE LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT, I UNLIKE A LOT OF THE PROPONENT OF MY FELLOW PROPONENTS AND SOME OF THE OPPONENTS I HAVEN'T LIVED IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD VERY LONG.

I'VE ONLY BEEN THERE SINCE 2017, BUT I CHOSE IT BECAUSE OF WHAT IT IS, IS HISTORIC.

IT'S UNIQUE.

IT'S DIVERSE SOMETHING YOU DON'T GET MUCH OF IN BATON ROUGE.

AND BECAUSE I'VE ONLY BEEN THERE SINCE 2017, I'M SEEING IT FALL APART IN FRONT OF MY EYES QUICKLY.

THESE ARE JUST THREE PROPERTIES THAT I MENTIONED.

IT'S BEEN FIVE OR SIX SINCE 2017, BECAUSE OF THIS, I REALLY DO KINDLY ASK FOR YOUR PRETTY, YOU APPROVE THIS MOTION.

AND LOVE FOR YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD BY FEEDING YOU FALSE NARRATIVES.

OUR NEXT CARD IS FOR MARKITA COTTENHAM MARKITA COTTENHAM 305 PAMELA STREET, LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICTS ARE ABOUT PRESERVING THE FABRIC OF THE CHARACTER AND THE CHARACTER OF THE COMMUNITY.

THIS LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT WILL DO JUST THAT THIS DESIGNATION DOESN'T DEMO PEOPLE'S HOMES PUT UNDUE BURDENS ON HOMEOWNERS OR DISCRIMINATE AGAINST BAR, LOW INCOME HOME HOMEOWNERS.

THIS WILL NOT DISPLACE RESIDENTS.

THE PURPOSE IS DIRECT FROM THE OVERLAY TO PROTECT THE HARMONIOUS AND NOTEWORTHY STRUCTURES WITHIN THE HISTORIC BEAUREGARD TOWN NEIGHBORHOOD FROM DESTRUCTION TO ENCOURAGE THEIR CONSERVATION AND IMPROVEMENT.

AND TO ENSURE THAT NEW STRUCTURES WILL BE IN KEEPING WITH HIS EXISTING CHARACTER, HISTORIC PRESERVATION, ISN'T JUST ORATORICAL.

IT CAN'T BE NOT FOR IT TO BE EFFECTIVE.

WE NEED TO PROTECT THE PLACES, THE BUILDINGS AND THE NEIGHBORHOODS AND THE CULTURES THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO OUR CITY AND OUR CITY'S HISTORY.

THE DESIGNATION DOESN'T REQUIRE MUCH.

SO I WILL CONTINUE TO URGE EVERYONE TO DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH AND READ THE OVERLAY AND DO NOT LET PEOPLE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF YOUR PASSION

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SO I ASKED FOR THIS TO BE A PR.

AND DO NOT LISTEN TO RAILROAD ROAD.

MY NEXT CAR IS FOR MJ, MARK, AND TAIL.

ALL RIGHT, GUYS, I'M MOVING SLOW.

THAT'S ALL RIGHT.

MARY JANE, MARK, AND TAIL AMERICA STRAIGHT BORE GUARD TOWN.

PART OF THE PURPOSE OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION IS TO MAKE AN ADOPT THE MASTER PLAN FOR THE PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE MUNICIPALITY DEVELOPMENT IS NOT JUST ABOUT NEW BUILDINGS.

IT'S ALSO ABOUT REDEVELOPMENT IN RECOGNIZED HISTORICAL AREAS TO PRESERVE THE DISTINCT CHARACTER OF AN AREA.

YOUR DECISION TODAY SHOULD BE BASED ON FACTS.

ONLY IF POLITICS AND EMOTIONS COME INTO YOUR DECISION.

IT NOT ONLY WILL HURT BEAUREGARD TAN, BUT COULD HURT ANY OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS.

CHANCES WHEN SINKING THEIR OWN HISTORICAL DESIGNATION TO PRESERVE THEIR HISTORY FACTS, BOTH THE PREVIOUS AND CURRENT PLANNING DIRECTORS IN THEIR OFFICE, ALONG WITH THE PRIOR COUNCIL PERSON WORK TOWARDS A FAVORABLE OUTCOME BOARD CORKTOWN, AND THIS DESIGNATION PROCESS 114 OF 156 OR 73% OF THE PEOPLE IN BEAUREGARD CAN SUPPORT THIS DESIGNATION.

THE HISTORICAL PRESERVATION COMMISSION HAD TO VOTE TWICE IN SUPPORT OF THIS DESIGNATION, EVEN AFTER BEING GIVEN BAD ADVICE TWICE BY AN ASSISTANT PARISH ATTORNEY.

AFTER THE SECOND MEETING TO CLEAN UP THE MESS, THE HPC WAS ATTACKED AGAIN, BY THOSE IN OPPOSITION WHO CLAIMED THE PROCESS WAS RE DURING THIS ENTIRE PROCESS, THE OPPONENTS WHO DON'T LIKE THE FACTS CAME UP WITH THEIR OWN VERSION, ALLEGING ARROWS IN THE PROCESS.

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN A HUNDRED PERCENT REFUTED BY PLANNING AND NEVER ADOPTED BY ANY LEGAL AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE.

THEN THEY MOVED TO EMOTIONAL PLEAS.

ONE WAS AN ALLEGED EMAIL, REDDIT BEAUREGARD TOWN MEETING WITH UNPROVEN INFORMATION FROM THE SAME ASSISTANT PARISH ATTORNEY.

WHILE THIS EMAIL WAS SUPPOSEDLY DIRECTED TO BOTH HPC AND THE PLANNING COMMISSION YOU GUYS TO OUR UNDERSTANDING, NO ONE HAS SEEN THIS EMAIL TODAY.

THE PARISH ATTORNEY HAS NOW TOLD US IF THESE WORDS WERE NOT THE WORDS OF THE ATTORNEY EMPLOYEE, THE NEXT WAS HOUSES WILL BE TORN DOWN BECAUSE OF THIS HISTORICAL DESIGNATION.

IF THEY DON'T MEET CERTAIN STANDARDS, THE EXACT OPPOSITE IS TRUE AND HAS ALREADY COME INTO PLAY.

WHEN HOME OWNED BY AN ELDERLY BLACK COMMUNITY MEMBER WAS TARGETED BY THE CITY FOR DEMOLITION BECAUSE OF BLIGHT.

THIS DEMOLITION WAS STOPPED AT THE HPC LEVEL BY PUSHBACK, FROM BOTH THE HPC AND PEOPLE WHO WERE AT THE MEETING.

NOW, PROPERTY OWNERS IN BEAUREGARD TOWN ARE EXPERIENCING AGGRESSIVE ACTIVITY TOWARD BLIGHTED PROPERTIES.

AND THESE NAYSAYERS, UH, LOGICALLY WANT TO SAY IT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH THIS HISTORICAL DESIGNATION.

THERE'S NOT EVEN BEEN PUT IN PLACE.

I SUGGEST IT COULD BE THE FACT THAT ON JULY THE 27TH, 2022, 15 SECONDS, LESS THAN A MONTH AGO UNDER EMERGENCY ITEM, 1 72, THE METRO COUNCIL UNANIMOUSLY VOTED IN FAVOR OF A DEMOLITION CONTRACT FOR 1.8 MILLION TO AUTHORIZE THE DEMOLITION ABATEMENT REMOVAL AND CLEAN UP BOTH COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES TO ELIMINATE BLIGHT.

THIS HISTORICAL DESIGNATION COULD HELP PROTECT THOSE HISTORIC PROPERTIES.

WE HAVE TWO ADDITIONAL SPEAKER CARDS THAT ARE IN FAVOR, BUT DO NOT WISH TO SPEAK.

THOSE ARE FOR JUDY FAUST AND MELANIE MONTANA.

WE'LL NOW MOVE ON TO THOSE THAT HAVE FAILED CARDS AND WISH TO SPEAK IN OPPOSITION.

OUR FIRST CARD IS FOR C MORE AUGUSTUS.

GUS IS 8 31 EAST WITH A WALL.

I KNOW Y'ALL LOOKING FOR ME TO CALL TO ALL KINDS OF COMMOTIONS.

LIKE I DID THE LAST MEETING, BUT IT'S NOT GOING TO HELP.

AND I'M GOING TO PUT IT ON YOUR MIND.

I HEAR SOME OF THEM SAY THEY MOVED IN 19.

THEY MOVED IN.

I BEEN MARRIED TO MY WIFE 40 YEARS, AND SHE WAS RAISED IN BOWLING.

THAT HOUSE, WHICH MEAN THEY TALK ABOUT THEY ANCESTORS LIVED THERE A HUNDRED YEARS OLD.

THAT WAS WITH ME.

HER GRANDMOTHER WAS IN THE EIGHTIES AND NINETIES AND A HUNDRED LIVING IN MIRACLE TOWN.

UH, THEY NOT TALKING ABOUT HISTORY TAXES COME BEHIND.

WHEN YOU DO A HISTORY DISTRICT, WE DO NOT NEED A HISTORY DISTRICT TO MAKE BEER GOLF, BEER, GOLF TOWN.

WE DO NOT NEED THAT AT ALL.

BECAUSE WHEN YOU DO THAT, YOU COME WITH A PUSH.

YOU GOT TO PUT THIS CERTAIN DOOR UP THERE.

I COULDN'T AFFORD THE PROBLEM, BUT THE OLDER PEOPLE THAT STILL THERE CAN'T AFFORD IT.

AND I'M AGAINST THEM TURNING THIS INTO HIS THIRD DISTRICT

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THEY TALKING ABOUT IT WAS RIGGED AND THIS AND THAT ONE, THEY OPPONENTS STOOD UP AND SAY, WHEN THEY DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH BOARD.

AND THEN WAS THERE STATED THAT I WANTED IT, NOTATED THAT TO HAVE ONE HERE.

CAUSE IT WAS READ.

WE DIDN'T DO THAT.

SO DON'T COME FALSIFYING DOCUMENTS THAT Y'ALL DON'T KNOW THAT THEY DID NOT US.

THAT'S A BEAUTIFUL PLACE.

MY DAUGHTER GREW UP THERE.

SHE'S 38 YEARS OLD.

SHE WALKED UP AND DOWN WHEN HE USED TO GO TO WARD AND THIS STONE IS GONE STOOL ON STOCK.

HER BOTTLE ONE DAY THEY WAS COMING TO TELL HIM I BRING IT TO THE ZONE AND LET HER TELL YOU WE'VE WALKING DOWN MAY FLOP ONE DAY LATER RUN.

I WAS LIKE, WHAT? Y'ALL DOING WALKING DOWN.

AND I SAID, BABY, WE'VE BEEN LIVING HERE ALL OUR LIFE.

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? SO WITH THAT IN MIND, I WOULD LIKE TO SAY, THEY'RE NOT.

THANK YOU, PLEASE.

DON'T DO THAT.

NEXT CARD IS FOR KIMBERLY AUGUSTUS.

GOOD AFTERNOON, KIMBERLY AUGUSTUS, 8 31 EAST BOULEVARD.

I JUST WANT TO REITERATE WHAT MY HUSBAND JUST SAID.

PEOPLE ARE SAYING THAT THEY'D BEEN THERE 30, 40 YEARS.

AGAIN, LIKE MY HUSBAND SAID, MY FAMILY HAS BEEN THERE.

MY GRANDPARENTS BOUGHT THAT HOME.

MY MOTHER GREW UP THERE, WENT TO SCHOOL FROM THAT RESIDENCE.

MY MOTHER IS 76 YEARS OLD.

WE STILL OWN THE PROPERTY.

I'M 56 YEARS OLD.

I OWN THE PROPERTY AT THIS TIME.

MY DAUGHTER IS 38.

WE ALL HAVE COME THROUGH THAT PROPERTY AND WE HAVE NO PROBLEMS WITH ANYTHING, BUT I AM OPPOSING THIS.

I WANT YOU TO DECLINE THIS BECAUSE THESE PEOPLE THAT ARE SPEAKING DO NOT KNOW THE HISTORY.

I KNOW THE CORNER STORE.

I KNOW THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

I KNEW NATIONAL FOOD STORE WHEN IT WAS THERE BEFORE IT BURNED DOWN THAT THE MCDONALD'S SIT THERE.

NOW, I ALSO GREW UP IN THE HOUSE AT 6 0 2 ST.

JOSEPH STREET THAT LOOKS ACROSS THE STREET AT THE MCDONALD'S AT THIS TIME.

SO, AND I WENT TO CHANNEL NINE WHEN THEY HAD BUSKING BILL DOWN THERE AND GET THE YO-YOS AND ALL THIS, I KNOW THE COMMUNITY.

SO THEY CAN'T TELL ME ABOUT THE COMMUNITY AND WHAT NEEDS TO TAKE PLACE TO KNOW.

I OPPOSED IT.

AND I WANT YOU TO OPPOSE IT ALSO.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

OUR NEXT CARD IS FOR S H STEWART.

IT'S A BEAUTIFUL NEIGHBORHOOD.

UM, I OWN A PIECE OF PROPERTY IN BEAUREGARD TOWN.

UM, I'M ADAMANTLY OPPOSED TO THIS ONE REASON WHY AS I SCAN THIS BODY, UM, I'M QUITE CONFIDENT THAT THE MAJORITY OF YOU UP HERE BUILD IT FOR MR. TRUMP, WHO PROFESSES THAT HE DESIRES A SMALLER GOVERNMENT.

GOVERNMENT IS TOO BIG.

THIS IS, THIS IS GOVERNMENTAL OVERREACH.

THAT'S OUT OF CONTROL.

I'M NOT, I DON'T ENJOY THE, UH, THE ANTEBELLUM, UM, UH, ANTIQUATED ARCHITECTURE OF THESE SUBDIVISIONS WHOSE WHOSE CHARACTER IS BEING SUSTAINED AND RESTORED.

IT'S NOT MINE.

UH, LET ME WANT A, UM, A, UH, A CIVIC W WHATEVER, THE HISTORICAL DATA, I WANT TO DEFINE MY DEFINITION OF HISTORICAL DISTRICT.

UH, IT REMINDS ME OF A RACISM.

IT REMINDS ME OF A SEGREGATION.

SO I THINK THE NEIGHBORHOOD NEEDS TO BE DIVERSIFIED.

I I'D LOVE TO SEE A FIVE STORY BUILDING SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE OF BEAUREGARD TOWN, LOOKING DOWN UPON THE OTHER BEAUTIFUL RESIDENTS AS THEY WALK BY.

I'D LIKE TO SEE CONTEMPORARY.

I'M A CONTEMPORARY, CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE INFUSED.

IT'S NOT A FAMILY ORIENTED PROPERTIES BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE YARDS.

IF YOU'RE A YOUNG COUPLE AND YOU HAVE YOUNG CHILDREN, YOU DON'T HAVE A YARD FOR YOUR CHILDREN TO BE ABLE TO PLAY IT.

WHEN THESE HOMES WERE BUILT, MOST PEOPLE DIDN'T HAVE CARS.

IF THEY DID HAVE AN AUTOMOBILE, FAMILIES ONLY HAD ONE.

YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE A DRIVEWAY AND A GARAGE TO PARK YOUR CAR.

UH, I THINK A LOT OF EVERY OTHER HOMES SHOULD BE, I, I'M NOT TRYING TO BE DISRESPECTFUL TO ANYBODY.

GOD KNOWS.

PLEASE DON'T THINK THAT BECAUSE IT'S NOT THE TRUTH.

IT'S CALLED PROGRESS, TAN OUT EVERY OTHER HOUSE.

AND YOU CAN HAVE A YARD.

YOU CAN HAVE A GARAGE.

YOU CAN, YOU CAN HAVE A FAMILY ORIENTED PROPERTY.

UH, YOU KNOW WHOSE AGAIN, WHO'S WHOSE CHARACTER ARE WE SUSTAINING THE TYPICAL WHITE MALE WHO WANTS TO CONTROL EVERYBODY AND EVERYTHING.

I'M NOT BEING RACIST.

IF MY MOTHER WERE ALIVE, SHE'S WHITER THAN THE AVERAGE.

TYPICAL OF YOU, WHITE FOLKS THAT END UP THERE.

MY FATHER IS QUAD LINGUAL.

HE WAS A PROFESSOR OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES.

I HAVE FRIENDS FROM ALL AROUND THE WORLD, SO THIS IS NOT A RACIST THING, BUT YOU, WHITE MALES Y'ALL WANT TO CONTROL EVERYBODY AND EVERYTHING.

AND, AND THAT'S JUST, THAT'S YOUR MENTALITY.

SO IF YOU CAN MAKE YOUR POINT

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WITHOUT MAKING ACCUSATIONS, IT'D BE GROWING THE OLDER.

WELL, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, WHILE I'M COMING, YOU KNOW, WE, WE LIVE IN AMERICA.

I MEAN, WE DON'T, YOU KNOW, COME ON NOW.

I GET IT.

I'M BEING REAL.

I, AGAIN, I, I'M A REALIST, MAN.

I AIN'T ABOUT ALL THIS POLITICKING AND PLAY CAITLIN AND TIPTOE AND THROUGH THE TWO LIPS.

AND I DON'T HAVE TO SELL MY SOUL TO SERVE ON SOMEBODY'S BOARD OR WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE.

LOOK, WE NEED TO RETHINK THIS THING BEFORE Y'ALL MAKE THIS DECISION.

I'M BEGGING YOU DO NOT PASS THIS UNTIL WE CAN REGROUP THIS AND TALK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, NOT JUST FITTING IT INTO THIS QUOTE, UNQUOTE, CURRENT, WHATEVER IT IS, A HISTORICAL DISTRICT THAT IS AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED, ANTIQUATED, OUTDATED, UM, UH, PRE UH, SEGREGATED DESEGREGATION.

IT'S ALL.

LET'S RETHINK THIS, PLEASE.

THANK YOU, SIR.

OUR NEXT SPEAKER CARD IS FOR LAJEAN HARRIS.

GOOD AFTERNOON.

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SERVICE.

UM, TODAY I COME BEFORE YOU AND I AM HERE AS A LONG-TERM RESIDENT OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

I MOVED TO BURGHARDT TOWN IN 1968.

UH, WHEN I WAS JUST A VERY YOUNG CHILD, MY PARENTS, UH, RENTED A HOME THERE FOR MANY YEARS, AND I WAS ABLE TO DREAM OF OWNING A PROPERTY.

AND, UH, THAT DREAM CAME TRUE.

I AM HERE TODAY TO FIGHT FOR PROPERTY RIGHTS.

MY PROPERTY IS MY PROPERTY.

I PAY THE NOTE.

I PAY THE HOMEOWNER'S INSURANCE.

I PAY THE TAXES.

I DO NOT NEED ANYONE ELSE TO TELL ME WHAT TYPE OF SIDING, WHAT TYPE OF DOOR, UM, WHETHER I CAN DO AN ADDITION OR NOT TO MY HOME, BECAUSE THOSE THERE'S NO ONE ELSE WHO CONTRIBUTES TO MY HOME.

UM, I THINK IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS A LOT OF INFORMATION PUT OUT BY THE, UH, PROPONENTS THAT THIS WOULD IN SOME WAY, ENHANCE PEOPLE THAT THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO.

UM, THERE WOULD BE BENEFITS.

THERE ARE NO BENEFITS TO THE AVERAGE HOMEOWNER.

THERE ARE BENEFITS TO INVESTORS, INCOME PRODUCING PROPERTIES.

AND WHAT I AM SEEING IS THAT THERE ARE MANY INVESTORS, MANY OF THE PEOPLE YOU HAVE HEARD SPEAK TODAY ON MULTIPLE PROPERTIES.

THESE PEOPLE ARE INVESTORS COMING INTO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.

I WATCHED THE FLIGHT AWAY FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD, AND NOW I SEE INVESTORS COMING BACK INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

AND THE REASON I HAVE STAYED IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, I HAVE RAISED MY CHILDREN IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

I DID NOT WANT TO LIVE IN A SUBDIVISION THAT HAD A HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION AND ALL SORTS OF RULES THAT I HAD TO ABIDE BY.

I PURPOSELY STAYED IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD BECAUSE OF THOSE THINGS.

AND WHAT I ASKED YOU TODAY, YES, IT IS A BURDEN.

HERE'S THE AMOUNT OF RESEARCH THAT I'VE HAD TO DO.

I HAVE NOT BEEN MISLED BY ANYONE.

I HAVE READ ALL OF THE DOCUMENTS, WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT THIS ORGANIZATION, THAT I AM NOW A PART OF, AND I'VE BEEN A PART OF IN THE PAST, THE BURKHART TOWN CIVIC ASSOCIATION, AS A RIGHT NOW, THIS BURGHARDT TOWN CIVIC ASSOCIATION HAS LOST THEIR 5 0 1 C3 STATUS.

THEY HAVE ALSO, THEY'RE ALSO NOT IN GOOD STANDING WITH THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

UM, THEY DO NOT FOLLOW THEIR OWN BYLAWS.

I SIT IN THE MEETINGS AND I SEE WHAT GOES ON.

UH, THERE IS NO EVIDENCE IN THE MINUTES THAT I HAVE READ, UH, FROM YEARS BEFORE I JOINED THAT THERE WAS EVER A VOTE TO SUBMIT THE APPLICATION FOR THE LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT.

WHAT I LIKE TO SAY IS THERE HAS BEEN A SMALL GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE COME TOGETHER AND HAVE USED THIS ORGANIZATION AS A CATALYST FOR THEIR OWN FINANCIAL GAIN.

AND, BUT IN THE MEANTIME, THEY HAVE NOT EVEN KEPT UP WITH THE THINGS THAT MAKE THIS A LEGAL ORGANIZATION.

THEY HAVE NOT EVEN DONE THE VERY BASICS.

IT TAKES FIVE MINUTES TO DO A, UH, 10, I'M SORRY TO DO THE FORM TO CONTINUE YOUR 5 0 1 6.

SORRY.

MA'AM YOUR TIME IS UP.

YES, MA'AM THANK YOU.

MY NEXT COURT IS FOR LUIS GOLDEN.

I'M ELISE GOLDEN.

I LIVE AT 2 47 MAXIMILLIAN STREET.

MY HUSBAND USED TO SAY 24 7 WHEN WE MOVED THERE, WE MOVED THERE BECAUSE IT WAS A MILE FROM MY HUSBAND'S WORK.

HE WORKED FOR THE STATE TIMES MORE THAN THAT ADVOCATE.

WE HAD THREE CHILDREN, IT WAS AFFORDABLE.

OUR HOUSE WAS A 1910.

IT NEEDED LOTS OF WORK.

EDIT, BEEN WRITTEN HARD AND PUT UP WET 25 YEARS AS A RENTAL.

THEY TURNED IT INTO A DUPLEX.

WE MANAGED

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TO TURN IT BACK INTO A SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING, BUT IT STILL HAS A LONG, LONG WAY TO GO.

UM, AFTER THAT, WE HAD TWO MORE CHILDREN.

SO FIVE CHILDREN WERE RAISED IN THAT HOUSE.

SO THAT WAS THERE FOR 25 YEARS LONG, ABOUT 2013.

UM, DR.

KINI BOUGHT THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR TO ME, IT HAD BEEN A LAW OFFICE, ANY PROPOSED, OH, HE WENT AHEAD AND TURN IT INTO A RENTAL.

AND FIRST DAY THAT I MET HIM, HE WAS MOWING DOWN THE ORNAMENTAL GRASS ON MY PROPERTY.

AND I WENT OUT THERE RATHER I RATE AND SAY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? HE SAID, I THOUGHT IT WOULD LOOK BETTER THAT WAY.

SO HARRY WAS ENCROACHING ON MY PROPERTY AND THAT'S KIND OF WHAT I FEEL LIKE THE LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT HAS THE POSSIBILITY OF DOING IS OTHER NEIGHBORS ENCROACHING UPON PROPERTY OWNERS RIGHTS.

YOU KNOW, I HAVE A PIECE OF PROPERTY WHERE I COULD BUILD, BUT THERE'S, THERE'S NO HOUSE ON IT.

IT WAS RAISED BEFORE WE BOUGHT THE PROPERTY IN 2007, 2004, I BELIEVE.

YEAH.

AND, UM, SO THEY DID THE SURVEY, THE SURVEY THAT WAS DONE BY CALHOUN AND ROVS PREPARED THAT THERE WERE 37 DIFFERENT STYLES OF BUILDING IN BEAUREGARD TOWN.

NOW THE DESIGN GUIDELINES SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, LIKE IF I WANTED TO BUILD A STRUCTURE ON MY PROPERTY, I WOULD HAVE TO ABIDE BY, OR THERE WOULD HAVE TO BE SOME SORT OF, UM, COMMUNITY MEETING TO SAY, HEY, HOW DO YOU KNOW THIS IS HOW WE WANT YOUR BUILDING TO LOOK, BUT WHICH ONE OF THE 37 STYLES THAT HARLEY SEEMS LIKE IT WOULD BE A LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT.

IT WOULD BE A HISTORIC DISTRICT WHEN THERE'S THAT MUCH DIVERSITY.

IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE.

I WAS AN INTERN PHOTOGRAPHER FOR THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FOR THREE SUMMERS AFTER I GOT MY PHOTOGRAPHY DEGREE IN 1985, AND I SAW MENDOCINO, CALIFORNIA.

I SAW UTAH, I SAW ARKANSAS.

I SAW SOME, A DC, A SUB BALTIMORE, AND THIS ISN'T LIKE THE OTHER LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICTS.

IT'S SO DIVERSIFIED ALREADY.

THERE'S NO COHESIVENESS EXCEPT FOR THE PLAN THAT BEAUREGARD ENVISIONED AND HIS ARCHITECT LAID OUT WITH THE, THE, UM, DIAGONAL STREETS.

THE PLAN ITSELF.

MA'AM YOUR TIME IS UP.

OUR NEXT CARD IS FOR LEO WASHINGTON.

ENJOY THEIR LIVES AND THEIR HOMES.

MY NAME IS LEO WASHINGTON, 8 51, YOUR STREET BOARD MEMBER, BEAUREGARD TOWN, CIVIC ASSOCIATION, AND THE MEMBER OF WESLEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, WHICH SITS RIGHT IN BEAUREGARD TOWN.

I MET MY WIFE BOY SOME YEARS AGO IN BEAUREGARD TOWN.

IT'S A BEAUTIFUL PLACE.

I RISE TO STATE MY ABJECT OPPOSITION TO THE PROPOSAL PETITION TO MAKING BEAUREGARD TOWN, A HISTORIC DISTRICT.

NOW, WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT HISTORY ON JULY 13TH.

AS YOU MENTIONED, WE HAD A MEETING IN WHICH A VOTE WAS TAKEN ON THE PETITION AND TO OUR ENJOYMENT, IT FELL, BUT THAT EXCITEMENT WAS SHORT LIVED BECAUSE IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT TWO OF THE COMMISSION MEMBERS WERE DENIED THE RIGHT TO VOTE BECAUSE THEY HAD RESIGNED THEIR POSITIONS.

THE OPPOSITION WAS DISSATISFIED WITH THE WAY THE VOTE TURNED OUT.

SO THEY WENT AND THEY DUG UP SOME ANTIQUATED RULE ABOUT A LONG RESIGNING BOARD MEMBERS, THE RIGHT TO VOTE.

SURELY THAT MUST HAVE BEEN SOMEONE ON THE COMMISSION WHO SAID THAT THEY SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THIS.

OR I ASKED TO DID THAT.

IT SEEMS AS THOUGH THE PROPONENTS OF THIS MEASURE HAD, THEY HAD THEIR OWN PERSONAL AGENDAS.

COUNCIL WAS AT THE MEETING, MAKING SURE EVERYTHING WAS IN ORDER AND WE FOLLOWED PROPER DECORUM, BUT THEY FAILED US IN THIS AREA.

ALSO IN THE PREVIOUS MEETING, CONCERNS WERE BROUGHT UP ABOUT PRESERVING OUR COMMUNITY, WHERE I TO SHARE THOSE CONCERNS.

I WANT TO PRESERVE OUR COMMUNITY BY LEAVING THE PEOPLE ALONE AND LETTING THEM

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IT'S NO SECRET THAT BORDERS.

OUR TOWN IS PRIME REAL ESTATE, AND THE COST OF LIVING IS GETTING REAL HIGH.

THE PROPERTY VALUE IS REAL HIGH, BUT IT ALSO BRINGS ME TO BE THE ISSUE OF GENTRIFICATION.

AND WE ALSO KNOW WHAT GENTRIFICATION IS, UH, TO THE MARGINALIZED.

IT'S GOING TO MOVE THEM OUT.

THIS IS GOING TO DISPLACE THEM, PUT THEM OUT ON THE STREETS.

WE HAVE ENOUGH HOMELESSNESS IN BATON ROUGE AS IT IS ALREADY.

SO WHEN YOU MAKE YOUR DECISION, I WANT YOU TO THINK ABOUT THAT.

I LOVE BORDER GOT TOWN.

IT'S A BEAUTIFUL PLACE.

THEREFORE IN CONCLUSION, I EMPLOY YOU TO CONSIDER THE IMPACT YOUR DECISION IS GOING TO MAKE TODAY.

AND I SEE I HAVE SIX SECONDS.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

OUR NEXT CARD IS FOR TAMMY JACKSON THAT EVENING, TAMMY JACKSON, 7 3 2 BEAUREGARD STREET.

AND I WILL BE READING AN INSERT FROM A LETTER THAT WAS WRITTEN, UM, MAY 18TH, 1970 9, 43 YEARS AGO, BY THEN ARCHITECT CHARLES SCHWINN, AS IT RELATES TO THE NOMINATION OF BORA BARTELLE TO THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES.

I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT BEAUREGARD TOWN HAS BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH EVENTS THAT HAVE MADE A SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION TO THE BROAD PATTERNS OF OUR HISTORY, OR HAS BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH THE LIVES OF PERSONS SIGNIFICANCE IN OUR PAST, OR EMBODIES THE DISTINCTIVE DISTINCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF A TYPE PERIOD OR METHOD OF CONSTRUCTION ARE REPRESENTS A SIGNIFICANT AND DISTINGUISHABLE ENTITY WHOSE COMPONENTS MAY LIKE A INDIVIDUAL DISTINCTION OR HAS YIELDED OR MAY BE LIKELY TO YIELD INFORMATION IMPORTANT IN PRE-HISTORY OR HISTORY.

IT IS MY STRONG BELIEF THAT TO GIVE BEAUREGARD TOWN, THIS DISTINCT GISH, THIS THAT'S THIS DISTINGUISHED.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN? THE OTHER WORTHY LOCATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN ELEVATED? I HAVE BEEN LIVING IN BEAUREGARD TOWN FOR ABOUT 30 YEARS.

I STARTED OFF AT VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA, WHICH WAS A SHELTER AT THE TIME.

AND NOW I OWN A HOME IN THE, UH, VERY, THAT YOU ARE VOTING OR TODAY.

UM, I'VE ALSO LIVED AT ST.

AGNES SHELTER AND MY MOM NOW LIVES RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET FROM THERE.

UM, THERE'S NOTHING HIS, UM, THAT'S A SIGNIFICANT TO THE HISTORY OF THIS NEIGHBORHOOD, UH, PROPERTY THAT WAS OWNED BY THEN PLANTATION OWNER AND DEVELOPER BY THE NAME OF ELI IS BEAUREGARD.

UNFORTUNATELY, I DON'T OWN MULTIPLE PROPERTIES IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD THAT I RESIGNED IN.

I USE IT FOR RESIDENTS ONLY.

IT IS NOT INCOME PRODUCING TO ME.

UM, UNLIKE THE ONES THAT YOU HAVE HEARD FROM TODAY WHO HAVE THE LUXURY OF OWNING MULTIPLE PROPERTIES IN BEAUREGARD TOWN, BUT THEY LIVE IN DREAR PLACE.

NOTHING WAS HANDED TO ME.

I HAVE TO PURCHASE THE HOME THAT I LIVE IN.

I SIGNED A MORTGAGE.

I OWN THE RIGHTS TO MY HOME, AND I SHOULD BE ABLE TO DECIDE WHAT I DO WITH MY HOME WITHOUT ANY CONSIDERATION FROM ANYBODY.

AND I THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

OUR FAMILY HAS TO HAVE THE HISTORY HERE.

UH, NEXT CARD IS FOR JEROME BROWSER CARTER, DOMINIC JOHNSON, 73, 1 NAPOLEON STREET, READING FOR JEROME BROWSER CARTER, UH, PROPERTY OWNER OF 63 65 ST.

JOSEPH STREET AND 1447 ST.

JOSEPH STREET.

MY FAMILY HAS BEEN HERE, BEEN IN AND OWN PROPERTY IN THE BEAUREGARD AREA SINCE THE 1940S WITH MY GREAT UNCLES AND MY MOTHERS SINCE 1964.

AND I'VE BEEN BLESSED AND I'M FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO HAVE OWNERSHIP OF TWO OUT OF THE THREE PROPERTIES THAT MY FAMILY ORIGINALLY THAT'S MY FAMILY'S HISTORY IN THE AREA.

I DON'T NEED THESE PEOPLE WHO HAVE JUST COME INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD IN 2009, 2012 AND 2019, TRYING TO PUT A HISTORICAL DESIGNATION ON THE AREA TO DEMON HISTORICAL IT'S HISTORIC WITHOUT THAT FOR ME AND MANY OF THE PEOPLE SITTING HERE,

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WE ARE THE HISTORY, AND WE ARE A DIVERSE GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO ARE OPPOSED TO THIS.

THERE'S A SMALL NUMBER OF PEOPLE.

UH, THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT RESIDENTS WHO HAVE AN INTEREST SOLELY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

MANY OF THESE PEOPLE WHO HAVE STOOD UP HERE PORTRAYED THEMSELVES AS JUST RESIDENTS OF BEAUREGARD TOWN ARE INVESTORS ALONG WITH THEIR SPOUSE HAVING PURCHASED THREE OR FOUR OR FIVE OR MORE PROPERTIES IN THE AREA.

THEY ARE INVESTORS WHO ARE INTERESTED IN PERSONAL GAIN, AS OPPOSED TO THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE.

THEY ARE BRINGING STRESS AND CHAOS TO.

CAN YOU IMAGINE AT THE AGES OF 60, 70, AND 80 YEARS OF AGE, THAT SOMEONE HAS COME INTO YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD, THAT YOU HAVE RESIDED SINCE THE 1950S AND SOME, EVEN THE 1940S AND TELL YOU YOU'RE NOT WELCOME WHERE YOU HAVE RESIDED FOR OVER 50 YEARS AND ATTEMPT TO WHITEWASH YOUR HISTORY AND REPLACING IT WITH WHAT THEY WANT TO REPLACE IT WITH.

SOUNDS FAMILIAR.

THINK OF THE NATIVE AMERICANS I ASK YOU, AT WHAT POINT DOES IT STOP THE WHITE WASHING OF THE HISTORY THAT ALREADY EXISTS IN BEAUREGARD TOWN? IT DOESN'T, IF YOU VOTE TO PASS THIS FIRST, IT'S OUR HOUSES, OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, AND THEN OUR SACRED INSTITUTIONS.

UH, I WANT TO GO SKIP AHEAD HERE JUST TO, UH, AN EMAIL THAT HE HAS, BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S WHAT HE REALLY WANTS TO, UH, TALK ABOUT HERE.

UH, THIS EMAIL FROM JEFF CUNY TO MICHELLE DID SHOOTS MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8TH, 2021, SUPER WORK, MELISSA, MICHELLE, AND MYSTERY, NO MORE, BUT I MUST SAY CHANGES LIKE THESE ARE WORRISOME.

FOR EXAMPLE, CHANGING THE NAME OF PART OF EAST BOULEVARD TO TJ.

JAMISON BOULEVARD MAY HAVE BEEN AN HONORING MOVE AT THE TIME, BUT WHEN I WALKED BY THE MOUNTAIN, ZION AND THE STATE OF DISREPAIR, IT IS, AND I WONDER HOW LONG IT WILL BE THERE AS A TESTAMENT TO THE MAN WHO THE STREET WAS RENAMED AFTER.

IF THIS DOESN'T SHOW INTENTION OF WHAT THEY PLAN TO DO AFTER THIS PASSES.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE CAN.

SO I JUST WANT TO STOP WITH THAT.

ESTABLISHING HISTORICAL DISTRICT.

OUR NEXT COURT IS FOR MELVIN MITCHELL, SR.

OH, GOOD AFTERNOON.

OFF I'M MELVIN MITCHELL FROM WESLEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH WAS THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 5 44 GOVERNMENT STREET, BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA.

WE LISTENED TO THE PEOPLE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

WESTERN HAS BEEN THERE FOR 156 YEARS.

SO WE'VE BEEN IN BEAUREGARD TOWN FOR A LONG TIME.

LET ME TELL YOU WHAT DISTURBS US.

I'M A CHAIRMAN OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE COUNCIL FOR THE CHURCH THAT 17% OF THE PEOPLE WERE SURVEYED.

SAY, MAKE THIS A HISTORICAL, JUST 17% OF THE PEOPLE WHO WERE SURVEYED.

SO THAT WAS 114 OF 584.

THAT CERTAINLY ISN'T THE MAJORITY WE SAY, WE SPEAK FOR THE PEOPLE AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

IT'S NOT THE OTHER THING I'D LIKE TO ALIAS WESLEY.

WE DO NOT CURRENTLY APPROVE OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE HISTORICAL DISTRICT, NOR DO WE HAVE ANY CONFIRMATION THAT WE EVER VOTED OR THAT I HAVE SEARCHED.

THE CHURCH RECORDS.

I'VE BEEN THE CHAIRMAN OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE COUNCIL AT THE CHURCH FOR SOME THREE AND A HALF YEARS.

NOW, WESLEY IS NOT IN FAVOR OF A NEW ORDINANCE.

WESTERN IS NOT IN FAVOR OF ANY REVISIONS TO THE ZONING OVERLAY.

WESLEY IS NOT IN FAVOR OF ADOPTION OF ANY GUIDELINES THAT ADDRESS THE HISTORICAL DISTRICT.

AND THAT'S WHAT I HAVE TO TELL YOU FROM WHERE SO UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, AND I'D LIKE THE END.

ONCE AGAIN, WE, TO THE PEOPLE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

THE OTHER THING IS AT ABOUT THREE 15 THIS AFTERNOON, I WAS PASSED AN EMAIL FROM FAR THE MAYOR OF ST.

ANNE ST.

AGNES CATHOLIC CHURCH.

AND I'M GOING TO PARAPHRASE HIS COMMENTS HERE.

THE FIRST ONE IS THE HISTORIC DISTRICT RUNS A HIGH RISK OF PUSHING POOR PUSHING THE POOR AWAY RATHER THAN ASSISTING THEM TO SURVIVE AND THRIVE.

IT WILL LIKELY WILL NOT UPHOLD THE PROGRESS THAT WE WANT TO MAKE IN OUR COMMUNITY.

AND FINALLY, THERE ARE BETTER WAYS TO HELP OUR NEIGHBORS TO BE SAFE AND SECURE OTHER THAN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THIS HISTORIC DISTRICT.

I THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.

UH, NEXT CARD IS FOR SHIRLEY BOWLER.

UM, THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN, MY HUSBAND IS PASSING OUT SOME DOCUMENTS THAT ILLUSTRATE MANY OF THE POINTS THAT SOME OF THE PREVIOUS SPEAKERS

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HAVE MADE.

AND I MAY REFER TO SOME OF THOSE DOCUMENTS, THAT PACKET OF EXHIBITS.

UM, I LIVE AT 7 0 5.

MAXIMILLIAN MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT.

I'M NOT THE ELOQUENT LAWYER THAT APPARENTLY DEFEATED THE LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT YEARS AGO.

BUT I CAN TELL YOU WITH ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY TODAY THAT THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF A LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT IS TO CEDE CONTROL THAT WE HAVE OVER OUR PROPERTY TODAY TO SOMEBODY ELSE.

AND THAT SOMEBODY ELSE IS THE PRESERVATION COMMISSION, AS WELL AS ALL OF OUR NEIGHBORS WHO WILL SHOW UP WHENEVER THERE'S A PUBLIC HEARING ON, UH, A BUILDING PERMIT.

AND, UH, I ALSO WANT TO CORRECT A NOTION THAT YOU'VE HEARD TODAY THAT WILL PROTECT.

WE ARE ALREADY PROTECTED FROM DEMOLITIONS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD BECAUSE WE ARE PART OF THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT AND ANY DEMOLITION PERMIT HAS TO BE APPROVED THROUGH THAT PROCESS IT THROUGH THE, THROUGH THE SAME PROCESS AS IF WE WERE A LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT.

SO TAKE THAT OFF THE TABLE.

THE DEMO DEMOLITION REQUIRE A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS FROM THE PRESERVATION COMMISSION BEFORE IT CAN HAPPEN IN BEAUREGARD TOWN.

I WOULD LIKE THE OPPORTUNITY.

NOW I SENT A PAPER TO YOU.

I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'RE OPEN TO IT.

A LOT OF PEOPLE GOT A WARNING ABOUT PDF FILES AND SCARED TO OPEN THEM, BUT I SENT YOU A THREE PAGE DOCUMENT THAT DID BASICALLY THREE POINTS.

ONE IS THERE ARE SERIOUS CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES WHEN YOU START REMOVING PEOPLE'S PROPERTY RIGHTS FROM THEM.

THE ONE IS THERE WERE MANY FLAWS IN THIS PROCESS.

AND I THINK I HIGHLIGHTED ABOUT FIVE OF THEM TO YOU IN THAT COMMUNICATION.

AND I WATCHED THE METRO COUNCIL WHEN THEY'RE DEALING WITH ADJUDICATIONS, THEY MAKE SURE EVERYTHING WAS DONE EXACTLY RIGHT.

OTHERWISE THE, THE PROPERTY CAN'T BE MOVED THE WAY THAT THE PROCESS CALLS FOR IT.

YOU HAVE TO DO IT EXACTLY RIGHT.

SOME OF THE HOURS THAT ARE POINTED OUT TO YOU IN THE PAPER THE OTHER DAY WAS THAT THEY'RE STILL, AND I WAS LISTENING TO MR. HOLCOMB WHEN HE WAS GOING THROUGH THE SUMMARY OF WHAT HAPPENED.

HE WAS VERY CAREFUL NOT TO TELL YOU THAT THERE IS A COMPLETE AND APPROVED STRUCTURE SURVEY OUT THERE.

NOW, MAYBE I'M JEFF KEENEY.

DIDN'T KNOW, YOU KNOW, IF YOU ASK ME QUESTIONS, I CAN GIVE YOU MORE THOROUGH ANSWERS AND EXTEND MY TIME.

I WOULD APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO THAT BECAUSE IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THE ERRORS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF THE PLANNING, THE PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF THAT WORKED IN CONCERT WITH THE ADVOCATES INSTEAD OF BEING AN UNBIASED AGENT.

THAT ORDINANCE ONLY CONTAINS PENALTIES.

OUR NEXT CARD IS FOR MIKE BOWLER, THE DOCUMENTS THAT YOU HAVE THERE.

MY NAME IS MIKE BALLER, BY THE WAY, THE VERY TOP DOCUMENT IS THE COVER PAGE FOR THE STRUCTURAL SURVEY THAT THE PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF STARTED, THAT THAT SURVEY HAS NOT BEEN COMPLETED.

THE SURVEY THAT THEY, THAT YOU HAVE THERE DOES NOT HAVE.

WELL, FIRST OFF, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF ACTUAL ERRORS WITHIN THE THING HOUSES DESCRIBED AS SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES.

WHEN THEY'RE THREE FAMILY HOMES, HOUSES DESCRIBED AS HAVING ASPHALT SHINGLES, WHEN THEY HAVE METAL SHEET METAL ROOF SHINGLES.

BUT THE PRIMARY ERA TO THAT REPORT IS WHAT WAS RECEIVED BY THE PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF'S CONSULTANTS BY THE STATE THAT SAID THE DOCUMENT THAT THEY, THAT THEY'VE PUT TOGETHER THROUGH THE USE OF A FEDERAL GRANT REQUIRED THAT THE DOCUMENT AND ALL DOCUMENTS CREATED BY WHOEVER WAS PUTTING TOGETHER THE LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT CONTENT INCLUDE A NOTICE OF NON-DISCRIMINATION ON THE COVER PAGE OF THE DOCUMENT.

WHY? WELL, JUST AS THE COMMUNITY SURVEY THAT WENT OUT WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE THAT NOTICE OF NON-DISCRIMINATION, THAT WOULD ADVISE LOWER INCOME MINORITIES OF ANY TYPE THAT THERE WAS A POTENTIAL FOR DISCRIMINATIONS.

AND WHAT WOULD THAT DO? THEY'D START TO ASK QUESTIONS LIKE WHAT, LIKE A LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT DOES NOT PROVIDE A SINGLE BENEFIT TO A PROPERTY OWNER

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MR. HOLCOMB MADE THE OBSERVATION THAT THEY'RE GOING TO DO A LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT LIGHT BY TAKING OUT THE DEMOLITION BY NEGLECT.

THAT'S A TEMPORARY REMOVAL.

WE ALL UNDERSTAND ONCE THE CAMEL'S NOSE IS UNDER THE TENT, IT'S COMING BACK IN IN 30 DAYS, SIX MONTHS LATER WHEN NOBODY'S LOOKING SO WE DON'T BUY THAT, BUT THE DOCUMENTS THAT WERE CREATED AND MADE A PART OF THIS, THAT NECESSARY THE COMMUNITY SURVEY AND THE STRUCTURAL SURVEY WE'RE REQUIRED TO HAVE AS THE STATE TOLD THE CO THE CONSULTANTS, THE NOTICE OF NON-DISCRIMINATION ON THEM, THEY, THEY WERE NEVER PUT ON HIM.

AND THESE ARE PART OF THE, THE THINGS THAT ONCE THIS ULTIMATELY WOULD GET THE COURT, WHAT WE WOULD FIGHT OVER, WE WANT TO SEE THIS THING DONE LEGALLY AND HAVE ONE OF THE FOUR GROUPS OF PEOPLE THAT ARE AUTHORIZED TO MAKE AN APPLICATION, MAKE THE APPLICATION.

AND THE STAFF OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION IS NOT ONE OF THOSE GROUPS OF PEOPLE THAT CAN MAKE THE APPLICATION.

THIS APPLICATION THAT YOU HAVE IS NOT COMPLETE.

THANK YOU, SIR.

AT THIS TIME, I'D LIKE TO INVITE UP METRO COUNCIL MEMBER, CAROLYN COLEMAN.

GOOD EVENING COMMISSIONERS.

A LOT HAS BEEN SAID, I'M CAROLYN R. COLEMAN.

FIRST OF ALL, I'M A RESIDENT OF BEAUREGARD TOWN WHO HAPPENS TO BE THE COUNCIL WOMAN FOR DISTRICT 10.

I'VE BEEN THERE FOR MANY, MANY, MANY YEARS.

AND SO I RESTORED WHERE I AM AT 8 0 6 EAST BOULEVARD, A PLACE THAT DID NOT HAVE A PORCH, DID NOT HAVE MANY WINDOWS CABINETS.

I RESTORED MY HOME THERE.

AND SO I AM TOTALLY AGAINST THIS, WHICH IS BEFORE YOU THIS EVENING, WHY NOT? BECAUSE OF ME, I WAS TOLD WHAT THIS COULD AND WOULD DO FOR ME AND HELPING ME.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT ME, BUT ABOUT THE PEOPLE THAT I SERVE.

I TOOK AN OATH.

YOU ALL.

AND I DON'T CARE.

THE OATH THAT I TOOK WAS TO REPRESENT NOT THE HAVES, NOT THE HAVE NOT, BUT THE MAJORITY.

AND LET ME TELL YOU MUCH HAVE BEEN SAYING HERE, BUT IT IS DOCUMENTED THAT THERE WERE 54 RESPONSES SAYING YES TO THIS.

THAT'S DOCUMENTED LOT OF HEARSAY HERE.

AND SO THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT THIS WILL BE FOR NEW CONSTRUCTION RENOVATION TO NEW CONSTRUCTION AND ADDITIONS THAT A VISUAL VISUAL TO THE STREET THAT'S FOR NOW THAT SPORT NOW YOU ALL THAN ONCE THAT'S DONE, THEN THE REST WILL COME.

AND SO MUCH HAVE BEEN SAID TODAY.

I OWN MY HOME, MANY FOLK OWN THEIR HOMES.

IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT NO MORE, WHATEVER IS PUT ON TOP OF WHAT THEY ARE ALL READY DOING.

AND PAINT FOLK WANT TO LIVE IN THE MIDST OF A PANDEMIC THAT HAS ALREADY GONE FORTH.

AND OF COURSE IT WAS SAD THAT THINGS WERE ISSUED AND WHATEVER IN THE MIDST OF A PANDEMIC.

AND LET ME SAY, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THE PREVIOUS COUNCIL WOMAN DID SUPPORT, BUT AGAIN, THAT COULD VERY WELL BE HEARSAY, BUT HERE I STAYING AT, SHE DIDN'T LIVE IN THAT DISTRICT.

I LIVE IN BEAUREGARD TOWN.

AND SO YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE THAT ARE DEALING WITH AND HAVE DEALT WITH HIM WITH STEEL IN THE MIDST OF A PANDEMIC INFLATION, HIGH GAS, AND THEN ALL OF THIS ON TOP OF ALL OF

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THAT, I WOULD NOT BE THE RIGHT PERSON.

IF I DID NOT REPRESENT THOSE, THAT THIS WOULD NOT BE GOOD WITH.

AND FOR, AND SO MY DESIRE HERE, AND AGAIN, EVERYBODY'S NOT COMPUTER SAVVY.

YOU LISTEN, YOU HEARD ABOUT WHAT WAS SET OUT.

AND SO MY DESIRE THIS EVENING IS THAT THIS NOT BE APPROVED.

AND I ASKED THAT YOU ALL WILL CONSIDER THAT THIS NOT BE APPROVED IN ORDER THAT IT WILL BE STOPPED RIGHT HERE, MUCH HAVE BEEN SAID, AND I COULD GO ON, BUT THIS IS REAL.

THIS EVENING, HOME OWNERSHIP, YOU OWN A HOME.

I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ELSE THAT'S LEFT.

THAT OUGHT TO BE A PART OF REALLY ENJOYING LIFE.

IN RESPONSE TO EXCESSIVE PROPERTY FINDS, THE ONLY TIME THERE MIGHT BE A FINE IS IF THE PROPERTY OWNER WHO IS LIVING IN A BUILDING OR BUSINESS, UM, THAT PACED THE STREETS, IT DOES NOT MEET THE HISTORIC PRESERVATIONS.

THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER COLE.

WE HAVE SEVERAL MORE SPEAKER CORES THAT ARE IN THE OPPOSITE, EXCUSE ME, AT BETTER IN OPPOSITION, BUT DO NOT WISH TO SPEAK OUT, READ THOSE NAMES AND FOR THE RECORD FROM A CYBER FREE EDMOND, JORDAN RASHAD, SABREE DOMINIC, DOMINIC JOHNSON, KAREN CHOOSE DAVE CAMPAIGN.

YEAH.

DANI WASHINGTON AT THIS TIME, I'LL INVITE THE APPLICANT BACK FOR A FIVE MINUTE REBUTTAL.

YEAH, I THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT AGAIN, TO NOTE THAT, UM, THERE HAS BEEN A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF EFFORT THAT HAS GONE INTO THIS PROCESS.

AND AGAIN, IT'S BEEN, UH, OVER A THREE-YEAR LONG PROCESS AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT THE BEAUREGARD TOWN CIVIC ASSOCIATION, THE PLANNING COMMISSION PRESERVE LOUISIANA HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION, AND THE PARIS ATTORNEY'S OFFICE HAS WORKED ON.

UM, THE GUIDELINES FOR THIS PROCESS WERE FOLLOWED VERY CLOSELY DESPITE WHAT YOU'VE HEARD TONIGHT.

AND THEY WERE ALL REVIEWED.

EVERY STEP OF THE WAY WAS REVIEWED BY THE PARISH ATTORNEY'S OFFICE.

BY THAT MAN SITTING RIGHT THERE, THERE WERE NUMEROUS PUBLIC MEETINGS HELD DURING THE EXTENDED LENGTH OF TIME.

AND THERE WERE NUMEROUS PUBLIC MEETINGS HELD EACH PART OF THIS PROCESS.

THERE WERE CONCESSIONS MADE AMENDMENTS MADE IN RESPONSE TO EVERY CONCERN THAT WERE VOICED IN THIS PROCESS.

AND IT'S ALSO IMPORTANT HERE TO REMEDIATE THAT, AND THIS IS THE FACTS, 156 RESPONDENTS HUNDRED AND 14 OF THEM VOTED FOR A LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT.

AND I'D ALSO LIKE TO, TO A STATE AS, AS SENATOR STATE SENATOR CLEO FIELDS.

SO ELOQUENTLY STATED AT ONE OF THE HPC MEETINGS, OUR PROPERTY IS THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT INVESTMENT THAT WE WILL HAVE IN OUR LIFE.

AND FOR THOSE OF US IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD WHO ARE RESIDENTS, AND I'LL REPEAT THOSE OF US WHO ARE RESIDENTS, WE'VE PUT A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT, JUST LIKE COUNCILWOMAN COLEMAN HAS OF HER HARDER AND MONEY INTO HER HOUSE AND INTO HER PROPERTY.

AND SO IT'S ESPECIALLY TRUE THAT THIS IS THE SAME ONE THAT SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT INVESTMENTS IN HER LIFE.

AND SO TO REITERATE THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF HISTORIC DISTRICTS IS TO PROVIDE A DEGREE OF PROTECTION TO THE VALUE OF WHAT MOST PEOPLE HOLD DEAR TO BEING THE MOST SIGNIFICANT FINANCIAL ASSET THAT THEY'LL HAVE IN THEIR LIFE.

I DO RECOGNIZE THAT THERE ARE THOSE THAT ARE POST STILL AND TO THIS LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT.

AND YES, YOUR VOICE HAS BEEN HEARD MANY TIMES AND WE LISTENED TO THE REVISIONS AND REGULATIONS TO HAVE FOR THAT.

I ALSO WANT TO RECOGNIZE THAT THIS IS A DEMOCRATIC PROCESS AND SPEAKING FOR THE 114 RESIDENTS AGAIN, SUPPORTING THE MAJORITY THAT VOTED FOR LITTLE X TORIC DISTRICT DESIGNATION, THEY MUST ALSO BE RECOGNIZED IN RESPONSE TO THE NOTION THAT THERE WOULD BE SIGNIFICANT PROPERTY RESTRICTIONS.

THE PROPOSED GUIDELINES FOR BEAUREGARD TOWN WILCO HISTORIC DISTRICT WOULD ONLY APPLY TO THOSE WHO ARE BUILDING A NEW HOME, NEW BUSINESS OR FACADE, OR AN ADDITION THAT FACES THE STREET.

THAT'S IT.

ONE OF THE PRIMARY BENEFITS OF LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT IS TO PREVENT DEMOLITION OF HISTORIC STRUCTURES.

SO UNLESS YOU WERE PLANNING TO DEMOLITION DEMOLISH YOUR STRUCTURE OF YOUR PROPERTY, THAT RESTRICTION WOULD VERY MINIMALLY IF AT ALL, APPLY TO ANYBODY.

UM, AND EVEN THOSE IN THE FUTURE

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UH, SO IT'S OF GOOD FAITH TO DATE.

THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A FINE BY THE HISTORIC PLANNING COMMISSION.

THE OPPONENTS OF THE, UH, THE LUKE'S LOCAL STRIKE DISTRICT HAVE TURNED OUT, TURNED THIS IN ALSO INTO A RACIAL ISSUE, CALLING IT GENTRIFICATION THAT LEADS TO DISPLACEMENT.

SO, SO THEY CAN DEFEAT THIS APPLICATION.

THIS IS A RED HERRING AND NOTHING TO DO WITH THE 1806 NEIGHBORHOOD.

THE LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT DESIGNATION PROVIDES A PLACE TO HAVE A CONVERSATION OR DETERMINING HOW TO BEST PREVENT STORAGE STRUCTURES FROM GETTING TO A PLACE THAT THEY ARE CONDEMNED AND DEMOLISHED, NOT BY BULGARI TOWN, CIVIC ASSOCIATION, BUT DEMOLISHED BY THE CITY.

THAT'S HELPING TO PREVENT THE LOSS OF SIGNIFICANT HISTORY AND CULTURE AND DISPLACEMENT OF THE PROPERTY OWNERS BEFORE THEY DISAPPEAR.

FOREVER.

ALSO WANT TO NOTE THAT THERE IS VERY RECENT EXAMPLE ON YOUR STREET OF HOW THIS DESIGNATION WOULD HELP PROTECT AND PREVENT THIS, UH, STORAGE STRUCTURES.

THE HOME ON EUROPE STREET WAS CONDEMNED BY THE METRO COUNCIL AND BECAUSE OF THE NEW OVERLAY THAT WAS MENTIONED BEFORE THE HOUSE COULD BE DEMOLISHED BY THE METRO COUNCIL, THE HPC WORKED WITH THE HOMEOWNER TO MAKE NECESSARY REPAIRS NEEDED TO SAY THE HOUSE.

AS I MENTIONED, A LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT TO PROVIDE EVEN GREATER PROTECTION AGAINST THE METRO COUNCIL, DEMOLISHING THEIR HOUSE, TO GIVE THEM TIME TO WORK WITH THE HISTORIC PLANNING COMMISSION TO MAKE THOSE REPAIRS NECESSARY THEIR HOME.

SO IT WON'T BE, IT'LL BE TAKEN OFF THE LIST IN RESPONSE TO THE ORIGINAL BOUNDARIES OF BEAUREGARD TOWN, NOT BEING THE SAME.

THE OVERSIGHT STRUCTURE WAS THE BEST.

SORRY, YOUR TIME IS UP.

I THOUGHT I HAD, I THOUGHT I HAD NINE MINUTES.

IT'S FIVE MINUTES.

OH, OKAY.

THEY'RE VISIBLE FROM THE STREET.

AT THIS TIME, I'LL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING.

UM, WE'VE HAD A LOT OF INFORMATION ON BOTH SIDES HAVE PRESENTED BEFORE, UH, ASKED THE COMMISSIONERS FOR THEIR QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS I'D LIKE TO ASK DIRECTOR HOLCOMB COMMIT IF THERE'S ANY INFORMATION PRESENTED THAT, UH, YOU'D LIKE TO ADDRESS OR ANY CLARIFICATIONS YOU'D LIKE TO MAKE ON BEHALF OF THE PLANNING STAFF, JUST TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT AGAIN, THERE'S BEEN ALLEGATIONS MADE DIRECTLY TO THIS OFFICE AND TO OUR STAFF THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE PROCESS.

UM, YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN INVOLVED WITH THIS SINCE THE APPLICATION, UH, CAME, CAME THROUGH HER OFFICE AND WE RECEIVED THE APPLICATION ON BEHALF OF THE CIVIC ASSOCIATION.

I TAKE GREAT PRIDE ON THE PROFESSIONALISM OF OUR STAFF, OF OUR OFFICE, OF THE OUTREACH, THE ADDITIONAL OUTREACH THAT OUR STAFF, UM, CONDUCTED DURING A PANDEMIC.

AND WELL AFTER THE PANDEMIC, UM, WE WENT WELL BEYOND THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS.

UH, THE NUMBER OF MEETINGS, BOTH VIRTUAL AND IN-PERSON THE PUBLIC INPUT.

UH, WE TOOK ELECTRONICALLY IN PERSON.

UM, AND AGAIN, EVERY WAY TO REACH THE CITIZENS OF THIS NEIGHBORHOOD, WE'VE HEARD LOUD AND CLEAR FROM DAY ONE.

UH, RESIDENTS AND PROPERTY OWNERS ARE VERY PASSIONATE ON BOTH SIDES OF THIS ISSUE.

UM, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, THESE ARE ADDITIONAL RESTRICTIONS FOR THIS NEIGHBORHOOD THAT THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND PROPERTY OWNERS NEED TO BE ENTIRELY COMFORTABLE WITH.

SO THAT'S UP TO THIS COMMISSION ON HOW THEY VOTE TONIGHT.

AND IF THIS ITEM GOES ON TO COUNCIL, UM, IF COUNCIL IS COMFORTABLE WITH THE ADDITIONAL RESTRICTIONS FOR THIS NEIGHBORHOOD, WHAT'S BEEN TERMED AS A HISTORIC DISTRICT LIGHT.

THAT'S A RELATIVELY NEW TOOL FOR THE STATE OFFICE OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION.

THERE IS A PRECEDENT, UH, THAT THAT TOOL HAS BEEN CERTIFIED BY THAT OFFICE.

IT'S A DRASTICALLY DIFFERENT FROM OUR TWO LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICTS IN DREAR PLACE IN SPANISH TOWN, WHICH REQUIRE A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS, WHICH IS ADDITIONAL REVIEW BY THE PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF.

THAT THEN GOES ON TO THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION, THOSE TWO EXISTING LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT REVIEW SUCH CHANGES TO WINDOWS DOORS, FRONT PORCHES STEPS, AND RAILINGS LIGHTING FENCES, YOU NAME IT, IT'S THE WHOLE GAMUT.

UM, THIS NEIGHBORHOOD BASED ON THE OUTREACH AND THE CONVERSATIONS THAT THESE PROPERTY OWNERS HAVE HAD AMONGST THEMSELVES, AND THE COMMENTS THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED, THERE WAS INFORMATION THAT THEY GOT EARLY ON, THAT THEY WANT TO KNOW PART OF THAT THEY ENTERTAIN THE LIGHT HISTORIC DISTRICT LIGHT, WHICH PROVIDED AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD TO PRESERVE ONLY THOSE CHARACTERISTICS THAT ARE TRULY IMPORTANT TO THEM.

UM, AND AGAIN, THE APPLICABILITY IS NEW CONSTRUCTION ADDITIONS THAT ARE SO LARGE THAT

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SO AGAIN, ANY ADDITION IN THE REAR, THAT'S NOT A VISIBLE THAT FROM THE STREET WOULD NOT APPLY.

AND THEN THIRD, IT WOULD BE EXTERIOR CHANGES TO COMMERCIAL STRUCTURES.

THAT'S THE GIST OF THIS ENTIRE, UM, APPLICATION THAT'S BEFORE YOU TONIGHT, AGAIN, THERE'S THREE ITEMS ON THE AGENDA, UH, FOR CONSIDERATION, THEY WILL BE TAKEN TOGETHER.

THAT'S THE TEXT AMENDMENT, THE TEXT THAT GOES IN THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE, THAT'S ITEM EIGHT OUT OF NINE IS THE BOUNDARY OF THE ACTUAL DISTRICT ITSELF ON WHAT THESE RESTRICTIONS WOULD APPLY TO.

AND THOSE PROPERTIES ARE SHOWN ON THAT MAP.

AND THEN 10 ARE THE DESIGN GUIDELINES, UM, THAT WOULD PROVIDE GUIDANCE.

THEY'RE NOT REGULATORY BY THEMSELVES, BUT ON THOSE THREE ISSUES ON APPLICABILITY, THE GUIDELINES WOULD, WOULD PROVIDE GUIDANCE, UH, FOR THE HBC AND THE APPLICANT TO USE THROUGHOUT THAT PROCESS.

I'M HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS, UM, ON THE PROCESS ITSELF, BUT I CAN, I CAN CERTIFY AS THE PLANNING DIRECTOR THAT THE ENTIRE PROCESS WAS CORRECTLY FOLLOWED, UH, EACH AND EVERY STEP WAS REVIEWED BY THE PARISH ATTORNEY'S OFFICE AND THE STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION.

UM, THE SAME ALLEGATIONS HAVE BEEN BROUGHT BEFORE OUR OFFICE AT JUST ABOUT EVERY STEP OF THIS PROCESS.

AND AGAIN, I CAN TELL YOU THAT THE PROCESS WAS FOLLOWED CORRECTLY.

EVERYTHING'S BEEN SIGNED OFF ON IT AND BEEN CERTIFIED.

THANK YOU, DIRECTOR HOGAN QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FROM THE COMMISSION, VICE CHAIRMAN GROW.

UM, I'VE GOT A SLIGHT LAUNDRY LIST HERE, BUT I'M GOING TO MAKE IT QUICK AS BEST I CAN.

UM, I, I HAVE SOME EXPERIENCE IN BEAUREGARD TOWN.

MY FATHER HAD AN OFFICE THERE BACK IN THE EIGHTIES, ALTHOUGH IT WAS NOT A RESIDENCE.

UH, WE SPENT A GOOD DEAL OF TIME THERE.

I DID ENJOY BEAUREGARD TOWN.

I ENJOYED THE ARCHITECTURE AND FOR REASONS THAT SOME OF YOU ALL SITTING IN HERE KNOW ARCHITECTURE IS KIND OF IMPORTANT TO ME.

UH, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, KEEPING A PLACE IN STASIS, I DON'T THINK IS WHAT IS NEEDED, BUT FURTHER IN ORDER FOR, FOR THIS, FOR, FOR ME, FOR, FOR THIS TO GO FORWARD, THIS NEEDS TO BE A VAST CONSENSUS BY THE COMMUNITY THAT THEY WANT TO DO IT.

AND I HEARD A NUMBER OF BANDIED ABOUT ABOUT 114 RESIDENTS ARE A MAJORITY.

WAS THAT THE 114 WHO REPLY A HUNDRED, HUNDRED 14 OF THE PEOPLE WHO REPLIED OR IS THAT W THERE'S I MEAN, COUNCILMAN COLVIN, THERE ARE MORE THAN 114 PEOPLE LIVING IN BEAUREGARD TOWN.

I MEAN, I MEAN, IF IT WAS A MAJORITY, IT WAS MORE THAN 225.

CORRECT.

SO WHAT I'M SEEING HERE IS I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE AMOUNT OF EFFORT THAT WHEN IT IS, THAT IS IMPORTANT.

I'M GLAD IT HAPPENED, BUT THAT DOESN'T, IF THAT EFFORT DOESN'T BRING CONSENSUS, AND WE'RE ASKING FOR RESTRICTION OF EVERYONE'S RIGHTS AND BASICALLY GIVING A, BASICALLY GIVING A OVER TO ANOTHER ENTITY TO START LOOKING AT WHAT YOU DO IN YOUR PROPERTY.

AND I HAVE A REAL PROBLEM WITH THAT BEING DONE WITHOUT AN OVERWHELMING CONSENSUS.

AND WE MUST HAVE A BROAD CONSENSUS IN THIS COMMUNITY, AND THAT'S NOT WHAT I'M SEEING, NOT HERE.

SO WITHOUT AN OVERWHELMING CONSENSUS, THIS IS NOT ENHANCING THIS COMMUNITY.

AND I LOVE BEAUREGARD TOWN.

THIS IS TEARING IT APART AS WE CAN SEE HERE.

SO FOR ME TO GO FORWARD WITH THIS, AS MUCH AS I LIKED THE IDEA OF, OF PRESERVATION OF A NEIGHBORHOOD IN DEALING WITH ITS SPACE AND ITS ITS SCALE AND ITS, ITS WALKABLE CHARACTER OR ITS AUTOMOTIVE COUNT, WHATEVER, BUT THIS IS TEARING Y'ALL APART.

AND I REALLY CAN'T SEE PUSHING FORWARD WITH THIS.

AS MUCH AS AN ARCHITECT, I MAY LIKE THE IDEA OF SOME OF THE THINGS I CAN'T SUPPORT THIS.

AND SO FOR ME, IF THIS COMES, IF THIS, WHEN THIS COMES TO A VOTE, I'M GOING TO VOTE TO DENY THIS, THIS APPLICATION BECAUSE I DO NOT SEE THIS AS ENHANCING THE COMMUNITY.

I SEE AS A TEARING IT APART, BUT THAT'S MY 2 CENTS.

COMMISSIONER GROWL, COMMISSIONER STERLING.

I MOVE THAT.

WE DENY THERE'S A MOTION ON THE FLOOR FROM COMMISSIONER STERLING.

I SECOND AND A SECOND FROM VICE-CHAIRMAN GROUT.

ARE THERE ANY OBJECTIONS, ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION SEEING NONE OF THOSE ITEMS HAVE BEEN DENIED, PLEASE.

CASE 52, 22 46 0 1 AT T 47 0 1.

LET'S REMAIN RESPECTFUL

[14. Case 52-22 4601 and T4701 Stumberg Lane To rezone from Light Commercial (C1) and Off-Street Parking (B) to Light Commercial Three (LC3) on property located on the east side of Stumberg Lane, south of Coursey Boulevard, on Tract X-1-A-1 and X-1-A-2 of the M.G. Harelson Tract. Section 57, T7S, R2E, GLD, EBRP, LA (Council District 8 - Amoroso) PLANNING STAFF FINDINGS: Staff certifies that the proposed request meets the criteria for a change of zoning, being consistent with the Comprehensive Plan, compatible with surrounding uses, and conforming to the Unified Development Code requirements ]

AT THIS TIME.

WE'LL MOVE ON TO THE NEXT ITEM.

ITEM NUMBER 14,

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STOMBERG WAYNE.

AND I'LL ASK THE CITIZENS AS THEY, UH, AS THEY EXIT THE ROOM, UH, REMAIN AS QUIET AS POSSIBLE AS THE, AS THE MEETING WILL CONTINUE.

SPEAK THE 2 22 46 0 1 AND 47 OR ONE WAS DOMINATING.

THE PROPERTY IS LOCATED EAST SIDE OF THE .

THE APPLICANT IS RHONDA S LENIENCY FROM BY FEDERAL CREDIT UNION.

THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING TO RESOLVE FROM OFFICE STREET, PARKING LIGHT, COMMERCIAL C1, TWO LIGHT COMMERCIAL THREE L C3.

THE PROPOSED USE COMMERCIAL.

THE FUTURE LAND USE DESIGNATION IS MIX.

IT USE CASE 52, 22 46 0 1 AND 47 OR ONE IS TAMBURLAINE STAB CERTIFIES THAT THE PROPOSED REQUEST MEETS THE CRITERIA FOR A CHANGE OF ZONING.

BEING CONSISTENT WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN COMPATIBLE WITH SURROUNDING USES AND CONFORMING TO UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE REQUIREMENTS.

THE PLANNING COMMISSION OFFICE HAS RECEIVED ONE MESSAGE OF SUPPORT OF THIS ITEM INTO AN OPPOSITION.

AT THIS TIME, I OPENED THE PUBLIC HEARING AND INVITE THE APPLICANT TO SPEAK FOR A PERIOD, NOT TO EXCEED 15 MINUTES.

WE APPRECIATE YOUR CONSIDERATION.

MY NAME IS JOE HEATH BY YOU FEDERAL CREDIT UNION VICE-PRESIDENT OF FINANCE.

WE COME BEFORE YOU DENIED ASKING YOU TO PROVE OUR REQUEST FOR REZONING AT TWO LOTS.

AS YOU CAN SEE HERE ON STUMP BIRD THAT WE ARE CURRENTLY TRYING TO SELL, AND WE'RE TRYING TO BROADEN THE GROUP OF MARKET.

THE MARKET THAT HAS POT WOULD BE INTERESTED IN IT.

WE'VE HAD SOME INTEREST IN IT, BUT UNFORTUNATELY, BECAUSE OF THE CURRENT ZONING, WE'VE NOT BEEN ABLE TO CONSUMMATE A SALE WITH THIS REZONING.

WE FEEL LIKE WE WILL BROADEN THE MARKET AND HAVE A BETTER OPPORTUNITY TO SELL THE PROPERTY.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

AT THIS TIME, WE'LL MOVE ON TO ITEM NUMBER 18, PUT 1306 PQ PLACE CONCEPT PLAN REVISION, BUT 1306 PEAK YOU PLACE CONCEPT PLAN REVISION.

WE HAVE, UH, TWO ADDITIONAL SPEAKER CARDS.

UH, ONE IS FOR RHONDA LINDSEY.

DO YOU WISH TO SPEAK? OKAY.

SHE'S INDICATED SHE DOES NOT WISH TO SPEAK.

AND THE OTHER CARD IS FOR ROGER CLARK, WHO WAS ALSO IN FAVOR, BUT DOES NOT WISH TO SPEAK.

WE HAVE NO ADDITIONAL SPEAKER COURTS.

SO AT THIS TIME I WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND INVITE ANY QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, OR MOTIONS FOR THIS ITEM, VICE CHAIRMAN GROUT.

I HAVE A LITTLE PROBLEM WITH REZONING PURELY FOR A BETTER SALE.

I REALLY DO.

UM, IF, IF WE HAD AN APPLICANT HERE WHO SAID, I WANT HIM TO TAKE THIS PROPERTY AND DO THIS HIMSELF, I CAN SEE THAT.

BUT JUST BECAUSE YOU ALL, AND I'M A CAPITALIST IS THE BEST OF THEM, BUT I REALLY, I REALLY, THIS, THIS CONCERNS ME THAT WE WOULD, THAT WE WOULD REZONE OR I MEAN, AM I, THAT, THAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE REZONING IS SIMPLY TO MAKE THE LAND MORE SALEABLE.

IS THAT CORRECT? IS THAT WHAT I'M OR AM I WAY OFF BASE HERE? AND LORD KNOWS I CAN BE OFF BASE.

SO YEAH.

SO THIS ITEM BEFORE YOU TONIGHT IS STRICTLY JUST THE REZONING.

THERE IS NO REQUIRED DEVELOPMENT PLAN THAT GOES ALONG WITH IT.

AS STEPH POINTED OUT IN STAFF REPORT, IT IS CONSISTENT WITH FUTURE BR WITH THE FUTURE LAND USE ON THIS, ON THIS PROPERTY.

IT'S UM, MORE OF A LATERAL WORLD, A LATERAL REZONING IT'S CURRENTLY THE MAJORITY OF THE PROPERTY IS CURRENTLY ZONED.

C1 IS OUR OLD LIGHT COMMERCIAL.

THE REQUESTED ZONING IS L C3.

IT SIMPLY ADDS SOME MORE MODERN, UH, ADDITIONAL COMPATIBLE USES.

AGAIN THAT TH THAT BEING SAID, I'LL, I'LL WITHDRAW MY COMMENTS, BUT THAT, AND I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE.

CAUSE THE MOTION ON THE FLOOR FROM COMMISSIONER GROUT, UH, TO APPROVE THIS ITEM, IS THERE A SECOND? THERE'S A SECOND FROM COMMISSIONER ADDISON.

ARE THERE ANY OBJECTIONS, ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION, SEEING NONE THAT ITEM AS APPROVED

[18. CONSENT FOR APPROVAL PUD-13-06 Pecue Place, Concept Plan Revision Proposed revision to revise and add new uses on property located east of Pecue Lane, north of Interstate 10, on Tract 4-B-1-A-1 of the L.R. Kleinpeter Estate. Section 49, T8S, R2E, GLD, EBRP, LA (Council District 9 - Hudson) PLANNING STAFF FINDINGS: Staff certifies that the proposed request meets the minimum criteria of the Planned Unit Development, being consistent with the Comprehensive Plan, compatible with surrounding uses, and conforming to Unified Development Code requirements ]

THE PROPERTY IS LOCATED EAST OF PQ LANE, NORTH OF INTERSTATE, THEN CONSTANTLY DISTRICT NINE HODSON.

THE APPLICANT IS CORRECT.

COREY, THE APPLICA PROPOSED AGGRAVATION TO ADD USERS OF OUTDOOR STORAGE.

THE FUTURE LAND USE THE SEA NATION IS COMMERCIAL, BUT 1306 PEAK YOU PLACE

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CONCEPT PLAN, REMISSION STAFF CERTIFIES THAT THE PROPOSED REQUEST MEETS THE MINIMUM CRITERIA FOR A PLANT.

OTHER PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT, MAIN CONSISTENT WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN COMPATIBLE WITH SURROUNDING USES AND CONFORMING TO UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE REQUIREMENTS, PLANNING I'M HAVING TECHNICAL DIFFICULTY.

IT WAS WORKING JUST NOT.

WE HAVE RECEIVED TWO MESSAGES OF OPPOSITION IN THIS ITEM.

AT THIS TIME, I'LL OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING AND INVITE THE APPLICANT TO SPEAK FOR A PERIOD, NOT TO EXCEED 15 MINUTES MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION.

MY NAME IS ERIC PIAZZA REPRESENT THE APPLICANT.

UH, THIS IS SIMPLY AN AMENDMENT TO AN EXISTING PUD.

WE'RE ADDING FOUR USES THAT ARE CONSISTENT WITH THE REMAINING 60 COMMERCIAL USES UNDER THIS PUD.

WE'RE SIMPLY EXPANDING, UH, FOR, FOR DIFFERENT TYPES OF BUSINESSES THAT MAY WANT TO COME IN THAT ARE SPECIFICALLY LISTED UNDER THE PUB USES.

WE TALKED TO THE JOINING ASSOCIATION AND HAVE THEIR SUPPORT.

I UNDERSTAND THERE'S NO OPPOSITION HERE TONIGHT.

I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.

AT THIS TIME? WE'LL MOVE ON TO ITEM NUMBER 20 WT, 1 22 18 T VERTICAL BRIDGE WILDEST FACILITY, W T 1 22 80 AND T VERTICAL BRIDGE WIRELESS FACILITY, 1215 SOUTH FLANNERY ROAD.

AT THIS TIME, I'LL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND INVITE ANY QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, AND MOTIONS FROM THE COMMISSION COMMISSIONER STERLING.

I MOVE THAT.

WE APPROVE MOTION ON THE FLOOR FROM COMMISSIONER STERLING TO APPROVE SECOND FROM COMMISSIONER SCROGGS.

ARE THERE ANY, IS THERE, ARE THERE ANY OBJECTIONS TO APPROVING THIS ITEM IN FRONT OF THE DISCUSSION? SEEING NONE THAT ITEM IS APPROVED

[20. WT-1-22 AT&T/Vertical Bridge Wireless Facility (1215 South Flannery Road) Proposed wireless communication tower on property located on the east side of South Flannery Road, north of Old Hammond Highway, on Tract Z of the A.A. Stander & M.M. Bannerman Property (Council District 4 - Moak) PLANNING STAFF FINDINGS: Staff certifies that the proposed request meets the minimum requirements of the Unified Development Code for Planning Commission consideration ]

THE PROPERTY IS LOCATED EAST SIDE OF SOUTH FLANNERY ROAD, NORTH OF ALL HAM ON HIGHWAY CONSULT, DISTRICT FOUR, BOOK THE APPLICANT S TOM HOLLEYMAN.

THE APPLICANT PROPOSED 145 FOOT MONOPOLE WIRELESS TOWER WITH A WAIVER TO REDUCE THE WIRELESS THAT WILL SET BACK.

THE FUTURE LAND USE DESIGNATION IS COMMERCIAL WT, 1 22 ATMT VERY COLD BRIDGE WIRELESS FACILITY, 1215 SOUTH FLANNERY ROAD STAFF CERTIFIES THAT THE PROPOSED REQUEST MEETS THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS THAT A UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE FOR PLANNING COMMISSION CONSIDERATION.

AT THIS TIME, I OPENED A PUBLIC HEARING AND INVITE THE APPLICANT TO SPEAK FOR A PERIOD, NOT TO EXCEED 15 MINUTES.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN COMMISSION? THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

THIS EVENING, AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK.

MY NAME IS LAURA CARLISLE ON BEHALF OF THE APPLICANT VERTICAL BRIDGE, LLC.

I HAVE TOM HOLOMAN HERE AS WELL.

UM, THIS SEEMS PRETTY STRAIGHT FORWARD.

THE STAFF IS CERTIFIED APPROVAL OR CERTIFIED THAT IT MEETS THEIR REQUIREMENTS.

UM, WE'RE HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE, BUT WE WOULD RESPECTFULLY ASK THAT YOU APPROVE THE TOWER PERMIT WITH THE REQUESTED WAIVER, THE SETBACK REQUIREMENT.

YEAH.

AND I'M ASSUMING MR. HALDEMAN DIDN'T WISH TO SPEAK.

COMMENTS, PROMOTIONS FROM THE COMMISSION.

I DON'T BELIEVE WE HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL CARDS, SO I WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND INVITE ANY QUESTIONS.

I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE MOTION FROM COMMISSIONER SCROGGS TO APPROVE THIS ITEM.

IS THERE A SECOND, SECOND FROM COMMISSIONER ADDISON? ARE THERE ANY OBJECTIONS, ANY ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION SEEING NONE THAT ITEM IS APPROVED.

[23. CONSENT FOR APPROVAL CS-8-22 Highland Estates (Flag Lot) Proposed flag lot minor subdivision on property located on the south side of Highland Road, west of Grand Lakes Drive, on Lot 16 of Highland Estates (Council District 12 - Racca) PLANNING STAFF FINDINGS: Staff certifies that the proposed request meets the minimum requirements of the Unified Development Code for Planning Commission consideration ]

WE'LL MOVE ON TO ITEM NUMBER 23, 8 22 HIGHLANDER STATES LIKE LEFT C S A 22 HIGHLANDER STATE FLAG LAW.

THE PROPERTY IS LOCATED SOUTH SIDE OF HIGHLAND ROAD, WEST OF GRAND LAKES DRIVE CONCEALED DISTRICT 12.

RACA THE APPLICANT IS TY GHOST.

THE APPLICANT PROPOSED TO RESIDENTIAL LOT ACCESS THROUGH PUBLIC STREET.

THE FUTURE LAND USE DESIGNATION IS RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS AND C S A HI LAW SNAP CERTIFIES THAT THE PROPOSED REQUEST MEETS THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS OF THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE FOR PLANNING COMMISSION CONSIDERATION.

WE'VE RECEIVED TWO MESSAGES OF OPPOSITION IN THE SODOMY.

UH, HAS HIS AGENT AND I'M HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE.

AT THIS TIME, I'LL OPEN THE PUBLIC HERE AND INVITE THE APPLICANT TO SPEAK FOR A PERIOD, NOT TO EXCEED 15 MINUTES.

UM, MATT STOPE AT ALL 81 70 HIGHLAND ROAD.

I'M HERE ON BEHALF OF THE HOMEOWNER.

MR. GHOSTS,

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AND WE'LL MOVE ON TO ITEM NUMBER 24 CS 9 22, AUTOMATIC PLANTATION TO C S NINE 20 TO AUDUBON.

THERE ARE NO FURTHER SPEAKER CARDS COMMISSIONER.

SO AT THIS TIME I'LL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND INVITE ANY QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, EMOTIONS FOR THIS ITEM, MISSIONARY ISLANDER.

I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE MOTION ON THE FLOOR FROM COMMISSIONER ISLANDER TO APPROVE THAT MOTION TO SECOND ABOVE VICE CHAIRMAN GRUB.

ARE THERE ANY OBJECTIONS, ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION, SEEING NONE THAT ITEM IS APPROVED

[24. CONSENT FOR APPROVAL CS-9-22 Audubon Plantation II (Flag Lot) Proposed flag lot minor subdivision on property located on the south side of Hoo Shoo Too Road, east of Wood Duck Drive, on Lot 4-A of Audubon Plantation II (Council District 9 - Hudson) PLANNING STAFF FINDINGS: Staff certifies that the proposed request meets the minimum requirements of the Unified Development Code for Planning Commission consideration ]

PLANTATION TO FLATTENED ON THE PROPERTY IS LOCATED SOUTH SIDE OF ROAD, EAST OF WOODSTOCK DRIVE CONSTANT DISTRICT NINE HODSON.

THE APPLICANT IS STARVING FERGUSON.

THE APPLICANT PROPOSED TO RESIDENTIAL LOGS ACCESS THROUGH A PUBLIC STREET.

THE FUTURE LAND USE DESIGNATION IS AGRICULTURAL RURAL C S 22 AUDIBLE PLANTATION TO FLATTEN OUT STEPH CERTIFIES THAT THE PROPOSED REQUEST MEETS THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS OF THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE FOR PLANNING COMMISSION CONSIDERATION.

WE RECEIVED TWO COMMENTS AND OPPOSITION TO THE SIDE AS WELL.

THIS TIME I OPENED THE PUBLIC HEARING AND INVITE THE APPLICANT TO SPEAK FOR A PERIOD, NOT TO EXCEED 15 MINUTES THE AFTERNOON.

UM, MY NAME IS DARVIN FERGUSON.

I'M WITH FERRIS ENGINEERING AND SURVEYING.

A COUPLE MONTHS AGO, THE OWNER MICHAEL MCANALLY CAME TO US WANTING.

COULD WE SUBDIVIDE THE PROPERTY FOR THE PURPOSE OF BUILDING THE HOUSE? HE'S NOT DEVELOPING, HE'S NOT A LAND DEVELOPER OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.

HE JUST WANTS TO CUT OUT A FIVE ACRE TRACK, BUILD HIS HOME LOAN.

UM, I'LL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS MR. MCANALLY IS HERE.

IF YOU NEED TO ASK HIM SOME QUESTIONS AS WELL.