Comments for Rehab at http://www.theind.com , comment 1 to 50 out of 20 comments http://www.theind.com Sun, 26 May 2013 03:56:00 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8846-rehab#comment-21168 developer’s fee — approximately $750,000 — that AOC will receive from Heather: Gachassin has been saying he is the developer. Reports indicate that in his earlier projects, he has received $500,000 as developer on each. Are there 2 developers here? If Gachassin also receives $750,000 that would be $1.5M that doesn't even go to the building materials. How many other developers are there? - realitycheck Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:29:00 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8846-rehab#comment-21154 jmllaf: you are as lost from the what folks living near this place and the downtown businesses as anybody. Don't have a clue!! These people long been forced into "volunteering" to "help" by fixng paying for, picking up trash, used condems, and drug stuff, washing vomit off the sidewalks, calling in crazy and nasty stuff them people who come down to party (they call that getting help) all around AOC. Prolly ain't as warm and fuzzy to shovel crap and clean puke as passing out sugar and presents to kids! Business ghotta deal with beggars at their shops, workers afraid to go to the dumpster scared to find some bum or gross stuff, bums from all over the place washing in the fountain where kids should be playin. "NIMBY"! now, you crazy!! there is more social mess downtown than anywhere!! Looks more like they just want the rest of the city to have some of the crap and to quit being the craphole 4 the hole parish! You better not tell my uncle downtown to go help there! He say things been better since the cops sent bums back home, the diner moved and now, this slowing down. - ibeenthere Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:17:09 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8846-rehab#comment-21152 . WITNESS, i've never used the word BLIGHTED to refer to the neighborhood or any other place for that matter. It's just not a word I use. In fact, for the neighborhood charette I conducted with my students, I walked every street, took over 100 pictures and prepared a powerpoint presentation that showed the quality of the housing stock, and the great design possibilities of the whole neighborhood. CONFUSED, you're still confused; that's not Ms Cluse's place of business. - hector Sat, 20 Aug 2011 17:01:49 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8846-rehab#comment-21151 Not so fast Hector, many many people have heard you say blighted. In fact, I have witnessed it myself. You said "all of that is blighted" and should be just torn down, and it wasn't industrial sites, it was historic homes you were pointing to. Emphasis on word "homes". - Witness Sat, 20 Aug 2011 16:19:47 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8846-rehab#comment-21150 Is that dry cleaner on the 900 block of Simcoe still open or is it just boarded up? A closed down dry cleaner really wouldn't qualify as a thriving business. - Confused Sat, 20 Aug 2011 16:17:43 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8846-rehab#comment-21140 . Father Robert and Co-chair Cluse had to intervene once during a public meeting since the comments made by some of the attending visitors were inappropriate and improper, and not in line with Robert's Rules of Order. I've never EVER said that the neighborhood is blighted. I have only corrected the PERSISTENT assertion that the site where JDV is being built has some historically significant structures; not so, it is AN INDUSTRIAL SITE and abandoned buildings. FWIW: 2/3 of the members of the coterie who voted FOR JDV live in the neighborhood. The others own prosperous businesses, multiple rental houses, and property. - hector Sat, 20 Aug 2011 13:22:38 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8846-rehab#comment-21138 That's what I thought - many people who are on the coterie don't live there. That means they really aren't affected by what happens when the sun goes down. Then they down play the neighborhood concerns about all the nightime goings on of crime that goes on that "home owners" have to deal with. And then hector is neither a personally vested property owner nor does he choose to live in the neighborhood that he want to re-model. - Confused Sat, 20 Aug 2011 11:46:22 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8846-rehab#comment-21137 How is Lasala to prove the negative? Especially in light of the priest denying any meaning discussion and the cheerleaders giving him a public apology for any one possibly having an opposition? Meanwhile, LaSala telling TAX PAYING (read here his salary) citizens in the area that their own property is the worst kind of blight? Where was the apology for that?! - realitycheck Sat, 20 Aug 2011 11:31:39 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8846-rehab#comment-21136 Yes Confused, you're not really confused. Sylvia was the one who stopped people from talking and she owns property on Simcoe but does not live here. - krista fontenot Sat, 20 Aug 2011 11:03:57 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8846-rehab#comment-21135 And by they way Gisele, i have never been invited to those things, and did not know aobut them, other that the tree planing Jimmy and I helped with. I don't hate my neighbors! Ask the ones who know me. - krista fontenot Sat, 20 Aug 2011 11:01:26 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8846-rehab#comment-21134 Gisele, I am not opposed to planting trees and picking up trash. I am opposed to the coterie approving jdv. cause when it turns in to a giant halfaway house nobody will be knocking on your door at 2 am for money, or whatever. If you a too blind to realize that that thing is gonna be a problem because of AOC, you are not paying attention! - krista fontenot Sat, 20 Aug 2011 10:54:26 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8846-rehab#comment-21132 I know I speak for Sherrill Lorio, who is working in the neighborhood at this very moment, in saying thank you. We have received many more blessings through our efforts than you will ever know. What an honor to serve this great community! - Gisele Sat, 20 Aug 2011 08:21:08 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8846-rehab#comment-21131 The whole community not just the neighborhood owe the coterie a wealth of thanks for working to improve the environment for all of us. Thank you on behalf of many. - Thanks to the coterie Sat, 20 Aug 2011 07:30:46 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8846-rehab#comment-21130 To Confused: let's follow your premise; do YOU live in the neighborhood? When was the last time YOU showed up on a Saturday morning to contribute to ANY community beautification project? I'm sure NEVER because I have participated in most, and organized many. The people who help are the same people I described earlier. Not the complainers like you. Like Krista said, put your money where your mouth is. Better yet, put your effort where your HEART is, like those of us who have given two or more years to SERVE our community on the coterie! My wise father, ALBERT SONNIER always told me to be part of the solution and not part of the problem. You are part of the problem, CONFUSED. - Gisele Sat, 20 Aug 2011 06:28:22 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8846-rehab#comment-21114 You are indeed VERY confused, Confused. Ms Sylvia Cluse DOES own a business on Simcoe St. - hector Fri, 19 Aug 2011 19:22:19 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8846-rehab#comment-21113 Watch the campaign finance reports of the current city council and look who got money from Greg recently when it gets published. the numbers may surprise you (or not). - Contributions Fri, 19 Aug 2011 19:06:22 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8846-rehab#comment-21112 So Syliva is the one that doesn't live in the neighborhood nor does she own property there? I'm confused. Also is she the one who stopped people from saying anything oppossed to JDV at that meeting at the church. She pulled them/ stopped them from talking and said something to the effect that we won't have that? I'm I confused or is that her. - Confused Fri, 19 Aug 2011 19:05:09 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8846-rehab#comment-21107 Small minds cannot conceive of the greatness of serving fellow man, being a visionary, and acting on a noble conviction. After 28 years of serving a a licensed, professional social worker in the State of Louisiana under the inspiration of a father and mother who lived and had a thriving dry cleaning business on the 900 block of Simcoe Street, who fixed his neighbor's broken plumbing in the middle of the night as a favor, who brought people to the polls to vote, who at 67 years old received his GED, then taught upholstering at the Lafayette Regional College on Bertrand, who along with my mother, a day worker in someone's house, taught me to love my fellow man...I took it as an honor to be selected as Co-Chair with Ken Veron. I was not selected by the City..I responded to a mail out sent by the City of Lafayette's Planning Office. I sought to bring order out of chaos. At the end of our 1st year there was a renovated J W James Park, community trash bashes, a community meet and greet, a voted on set of Coterie goals for community improvement, established "Crime Watches in our area," to name a few. I can no longer stand the taste of bile when otherwise "intelligent" individuals spew out vile ideas that denounce the good that some may do for others. By the way I made some wonderful friendships on the way to the Coterie meetings... - Sylvia Cluse Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:22:43 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8846-rehab#comment-21105 Let me tell you a little more about the so-called " jokers" who do not represent you on the coterie, Krista. Your neighbor, Ken Veron who worked dutifully as co-chair for almost two years giving ideas and insight for the master plan. Loretta Glover started our first neighborhood organization, LaPlace DES Creole. Kevin Senegal, cinematographer and historian who has spent countless hours archiving the WHOLE history of our neighborhood. Not just the parts that interest you. Tessie Shelvin, community leader who works hard along side his sweet wife Daisyand other neighbors to keep the cemetery clean and beautiful. Hector LaSala, who by the way,remained on the coterie even after we voted in favor of JDV. Why did he stay? To carry out the master plan WE all contributed to. So if you want to criticize the organization, krista, you have every right. But don't criticize MY FRIENDS. - Gisele Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:47:14 +0100 http://www.theind.com/cover-story/8846-rehab#comment-21099 ...in addition, krista. I'm not sure why you would be so critical of Mrs Sylvia McZeal Cluse whose family has LIVED in the neighborhood AND opened one of the FIRST African American businesses over 60 years ago. Long before you or I, or the coterie, her family was here working hard, paying taxes and giving a helping hand to those in need. Sometimes it helps to listen when others speak, Krista. Their stories may inspire you! - Gisele Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:09:49 +0100