Port of New Orleans seeks to expand in St Tammany

 Port of New Orleans seeks to make St Tammany Community the Industrial Hub of the Port of New Orleans.

Terri Lewis Stevens Proponent of Better Government explains where all the value added profit centers from the Port of New Orleans' Violet proposal will land; and its not in Violet, nor St Bernard Parish.  "Classic Bait and Switch from Bedroom Community to Industrial Hub of the Port of New Orleans! "

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St. Tammany, A Bedroom Community to Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics HUB? NOTE: The PURPLE...Council Meeting, Thursday, May 5, 6PM Koop Drive, Mandeville!!

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Terri Lewis Stevens - Proponent of Better Government

If it's Wednesday, there must be newly discovered info that St. Tammany Parish Govt. has screwed us somehow...Classic Bait and Switch from Bedroom Community to Industrial Hub of the Port of New Orleans! (Think of the area below the high-rise in NOLA East....)

1-Today's adventure starts with the January 2021 issuance of the 2040 New Directions stakeholder document where the only reference to STPG desiring to become the MAJOR LOGISTICAL/WAREHOUSE/MANUFACTURING HUB of the Port of New Orleans was a single reference to a "Light Industrial" complex.

2-Behind the scenes in Ap 2021, however, Masingill/Cooper were meeting with the Port of New Orleans and entering into written agreements for us to become a MAJOR Logistics Hub for the Port.

3-Masingill/Cooper then identify the first location-Azby's 160 acres at 1088/12 and set about in Oct 2021 to draw in John Crosby to buy and flip the site to a Distribution warehouse SO LARGE that we had no zoning category to govern it! So, they bypass all of the zoning rules and regs and change the land to allow 1,500,000 million square feet in a single structure to build there! And oopsy, no one alerted the Fire Department of this plan either, it seems.

4-The Zoning Board members are clearly complicit when they all approved this massive 1.5 M sf structure with no protections to the health, safety and welfare of the community, and without comment regarding the environmental impacts which undoubtedly will occur.

5-April 2022-the FINAL 2040 Land Use Plan emerges, covered in PURPLE...the new AML (Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics), which will set us up to have the I-12 Corridor become a tractor-trailer tangled nightmare.

6-Directly south of this 7000 acres of 2040 proposed newly PURPLE AML zoning areas are well-established residential areas. Who asked them how they felt about this? They will receive the worst of the polluted run-off from this area. Don’t they deserve a VOTE?

If Masingill/Cooper and the Council thought that a Casino deserved a VOTE of the people, why would a use like this, a change that will fundamentally alter our Quiet Suburban Quality of Life in this parish not deserve a vote of the People as well? Parish Government run amuck, once again. Guess that I’ll have to start another petition to show them how we feel….