Comments for CPC tightens noose on downtown bars at http://www.theind.com , comment 1 to 9 out of 9 comments http://www.theind.com Sun, 26 May 2013 04:09:43 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6339-cpc-tightens-noose-on-downtown-bars#comment-8011 Did not City Parish Government issue the occupational licenses for each one of these bars? And the liquor licenses? Through greed, incompetence, or mistake, LCPG created this problem. How much money has LCPG spent on consultants to help with planning and zoning? They didn't see this coming? Doesn't take a soothsayer to see that too many bars in too small an area would lead to crime, violence, and pissing in the streets. Especially not in a city where people have been moaning about the EXACT SAME THING a mile up the road--McKinley Street stip. I think these bar owners should hire an attorney and take the city to court over this. Is this new ordinance not an ex post facto law? - ragin_cajun Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:33:44 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6339-cpc-tightens-noose-on-downtown-bars#comment-7987 This is double taxation and so selective! The only policing of vagrants happens after serious injury; otherwise they are ignored. The residents are not properly protected from the far more serious problems of the free roaming criminals, chronically mentally ill, unsupervised 1/2 way and 3/4 houses, etc. all drawn to the area by the non-tax paying, but tax taking social agencies. - realitychecks Thu, 03 Jun 2010 06:36:35 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6339-cpc-tightens-noose-on-downtown-bars#comment-7985 CSB- Not sure I follow- "The downtown authority...city council..kicking their ass when...a large developer comes in and builds an entertainment center.." It would seem to me that they would be very happy if that would happen...more development, more tax revenue; then:"all the big bar owners and restaurants would be willing to leave in a hurry" And go where exactly? River Ranch? You think they'd put up with their crap for two seconds?Do they really have the acumen to be something other than bar keeps? And why would the restaurants move? They don't pay a levy. Then: "downtown would go back to a what it was...a place for bums and drugs" Maybe it would not go back that far...maybe it would just go back to the place of hope and promise before it got puked and pissed all over. Then: "it's going to happen. There have already been talks about it".Talks about what, among whom? Where exactly you going with that? Cause you know, talk is cheap. And talk can proceed easily without constraint of much in the way of logical construct,if you follow me.Which you don't. - meetzmurder Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:29:41 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6339-cpc-tightens-noose-on-downtown-bars#comment-7980 "...and suddenly a profound silence fell over the once loud and proud..." Kapitan Dieter Dietz, commenting on the reaction of the Germans High Command to the news that the Allies had succeeded in their invasion of Normandy - Blicero Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:03:49 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6339-cpc-tightens-noose-on-downtown-bars#comment-7975 CSB- Well, at least it will get rid of the bums and drugs IN the bars, no? - Buckley Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:24:22 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6339-cpc-tightens-noose-on-downtown-bars#comment-7974 The downtown authority and city council will be kicking themselves in the ass, when a large developer comes into lafayette and builds an entertainment complex. All of the big bar owners and restaurants are willing to leave in a heartbeat in order to not have to deal with this BS. Downtown will then be back to what it once was, a place for bums and drugs. It is going to happen. There have already been talks about it. - CSB Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:42:06 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6339-cpc-tightens-noose-on-downtown-bars#comment-7972 Property owners should bear in mind that a property serving as a bar can never again be a bar if it does not operate as one for one year. That's how the downtown ordinance reads. - Word up Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:56:40 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6339-cpc-tightens-noose-on-downtown-bars#comment-7969 """ Whereas, Whoseas ? Huh ? Something is definitely missing in this scenario...Oh, its Thoseas, Dore and Theriot "THE ALPO KIDS ! - Northsidian Shotgun Wed, 02 Jun 2010 07:56:50 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6339-cpc-tightens-noose-on-downtown-bars#comment-7961 Noose? It not the use of that word illegal in Louisiana? - B. S. Skinner Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:46:31 +0100