Comments for Shelvin seeks compromise in bar levy issue at http://www.theind.com , comment 1 to 7 out of 7 comments http://www.theind.com Thu, 23 May 2013 02:33:29 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.theind.com/home/5309#comment-4651 yosmamaspajamas, the short bus honking for ya at the corner !!!!!!!! - NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:27:52 +0100 http://www.theind.com/home/5309#comment-4619 NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN your comments are unintelligible as written. Crime goes where the money is. Downtown should be proud to have customers. - yomamaspajamas Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:34:45 +0100 http://www.theind.com/home/5309#comment-4616 For the most part, Lafayette enjoys a low crime rate. Night clubs are going to open up in other areas, and those businesses would require police protection. The criminals are going to follow their "prey". People have to realize their possible danger and be smart. Business owners should attempt to ensure their customers are not so wasted, their easy prey. The government's responsibility is to ensure the public safety, in all areas of the city and parish, in whatever means that might require. This time of year is esp. dangerous. - Morrow Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:56:56 +0100 http://www.theind.com/home/5309#comment-4603 Ya know, the no crusing rule could be effected if the police would shut down all two way traffic on Jefferson between Vermilion and Cypress. This pedestrian friendly environment would be in line with what other urban areas have done. The four cross streets, Vermilion, Congress, Garfield and Cypress could amply handle the traffic circulation downtown. Most if not no parking lots and very few street front parking spots connect to those blocks of Jefferson Street. This would be a nice move even during Artwalk. Any other issues besides the go-cups probably won't fly. Keep drinking people where they can walk to go hopping from venue to venue, not driving. Graduate the closing times and last-call times to allow for late night drinking to wind down. Don't forget that many of the venues downtown which are open late, aren't just bars, those are restaurants as well and draw late night crowds. To the extent that the venues are concentrated on one part of Jefferson and could benefit from some thinning as Mayor D wants to see, I'd put the ball back in his court. The city has what it paid for 12 years ago....Venues are where they are, because business owners were attracted to where the Streetscape was; this is where the people went, it's a reinforcing circle. (with exception to the limited repurposing we're beginning to see on East Vermilion Street.) If the city wants to see the love spread around, then they best get on the Streetscape project in additional parts of the downtown. This might cost money, but would they rather wait to make the case for urban redevelopment whent the economy is booming and contract rates blow the ceiling again? If they keep asking us for sales tax increases, they'll probably get shot down. Let's find another more equitable way to pay the tab than asking poor mamas buying groceries to pay the city another penny. - Unempirical Observer Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:48:54 +0100 http://www.theind.com/home/5309#comment-4600 Good news Downtown, the Councilman who gave his constituents in Elmhurst the figurative finger is going to mediate for you. - Happy in Elmhurst Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:32:35 +0100 http://www.theind.com/home/5309#comment-4591 CRAFT IS A puppet of JODU'NT sniffin out possible means in which to tax legit businesses. WHERE was JODU'NT When the licenses were issued for these highly prolif tax revenue JOINTS ? Ah liquor establishment by any other name than a JOINT is ah misnomer. NOTICEE""" IS JODU"NT BILLING THE POULET JOINT ON CONGRESS AHN DA CHECKERS DRIVE_IN BURGER JOINT FOR THE HOMESTEADIN COPS THERE AT NIGHT TO QUELL THE JUVE'S FROM KILLING EACH OTHER ! IT LOOKS LIKE a WATTS RIOT at NIGHT! THE BAR OWNERS need to get the area's top ATTORNEY and blast the COUILLION ADMINISTRATION INTO REALITY. THIS CAN'T POSSIBLY FLY IN A COURTROOM!!!!!!!! The idea of charging a fee to protect the peeps who pay taxes, this is what happens when you give a former "PETSHOP OWNER" a free rein, you create a ROBBING BARON, PARIS TRIPS FOR THE COUILLIONMEN...THE CLOWNS GONNA BREAK OUT IN A RASH, dey nevah dreamed ah paid expense trip was a perk oh dis JOB...... - NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN : Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:13:30 +0100 http://www.theind.com/home/5309#comment-4587 Will the nearby non-profit that encourages drug users and vagrants to frequent that part of Lafayette also have to pay for extra security? Judging by the numerous arrests of people "residing" at 100 block of Olivier Street, they should. - Cajunrunner Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:59:03 +0100