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when we can drive and or walk thru neighborhoods and community sub division and the appearance does not become a distraction.. we may just be able to see the beauty of the city..

now if only we can get the youth to stop dressing like thugs and buffoons.. in costumes that detract from their personal character of being.. and began to show some integrity in appearance.. some dignity in their attire..and conduct themselves with social regard for land, business and people..

Crime would surely fall...

how did we become a society that let our homes look like massive junk yards.. some make theirs look like a 'wrecking yard" with broken down auto's and junk that they will never utilize stacked up as if they have a pack rat mentality.. and this is most certainly not ethnic specific.. it is people who have no concept of how to fit and present themselves in a community enviornment.

"for humor.. " what we need too is a "thug appearance" law..

on a more serious note:

but I think the property standards program.. will bring people to face what it is to live in a community enviornment.. and have some pride about their home and any other property ownership they may hold.. " Let the fines begin" and let the enforcement of them be sternly upheld.. don't just fine them and let it sit on the books for moths..

if they don't clean it up.. hire someone to clean it up and attach a lien on the property.. strong enough that it comes in right behind a tax lien before a mortgage lien. and enough liens .. can support a bond issue to regain the money the city spent to clean up these properties. and the liens carry a % of interest earning potential.. that makes it to the advantage of the property owner to resolve it as soon as possible or erode the equity in their property by the interest rate attached to the lien.

We see far too many homes nearly falling down with 30K vehicle parked in the front of them. and some with every type of recreation equipment from jet ski's to boats, mobile home and etc.. but they can't paint their house or clean their lawn.. and their carports look like a storage dump place.

such things.. do nothing but destroy the equity earning potential of other home owners who take care of their property.

come out blazing and strike firm.. on the violators


take a country Like Japan.. they have some of the cleanest neighborhoods and shopping areas in the world.. along with Singapore.. in many of their areas they do not tolerate litter, clutter and plain simple negligence to their environmental appearance.

Shreveport needs to stop building community with " ditches for drainage' and actually install the drainage and mandate that any community that wants to build a sub division have to provide proper drainage system..

the old days of the south.. with big ditches along the road.. is something you'd expect to see in 1920's.. and here we still allow it today.

business structures.. that don't have interconnected parking areas .. where you got to go back to the main street to get to a business right next door..

that is an element of very pathetic city planning and codes to avoid such from existing. we are no longer a ' COUNTRY TOWN.. WE ARE A CITY..


and construction needs to look like a city.. We don't need any more narrow streets with the shallow curbs.. that are built as if they have no regard for drainage..

there are areas that the proper guard railing are not in place.. and some areas that street lighting is the silliest design that is pathetically envisioned.. with street lights only on one side of the street.. and spaced so far apart as to be non effective. We have old power consuming yellow looking streets lights. when the new bright white halogen lights are more economical and provide better lighting..

but I wonder.. why those who are in charge of such things.. "do not follow technological improvements".. it's as if they are stuck in a 1950's mentality.. when it comes to investigating and implementing modern technology..

We have to wonder in some intersection why do we have 25 stop lights.. instead of looking at a different type of lighting system for traffic flow..

there are areas that exit and enter the freeway that have no lighting.. such as on Mansfield road..and 3132..

downtown the street sign are not uniform and are not large and clearly visible..

and some areas you can't even find a street sign to tell you what street you are crossing..

this is the blindness of previous administration .. who had very little concept of how to make a city a city.. and not a country town..

navigation is sad for resident and even worst for city visitors.. you got to actually know the city to navigate it.. and that is a deterrent from visitor revenue to be spread across the city..

Hopefully the over all administration does not take a attitude of " don't tell me how a city is suppose to be" I HAVE THE POSITION OF POWER.. that is such a backward and incompetent mindset for any in position to have.. and all that type of thinking does is try and quiet and quell intellect and avoid hiring creative intelligence.. which keeps a backward and outdated trend in place.

it does not take people with degree's to function in positive creativity within organizations.. it takes simply people who can and do think... so the city may care to not assume that there is not talent within it's ranks of the city population.. and push it not away with meaning criteria.. for position filling.. but find people who are pro-actively expressive and pro-actively engaging..

and get the tyrant mentalities out of position .. when they show no vision and no foresight.. but just ride on the fact they have been in a position for XX years.. it's a matter of knowing talent when it encountered.. and not being so egotistical to dismiss it becase one does not understand it or cant envision something different..

it takes a strong individual who can not fear .. the challenge of new ideas.

Our Mayor, Mr. Glover.. is trying to take us into the future.. if the department heads of his many divisions .. open their minds..and expand their concept.. they may be able to grasp his vision and put some proactive employment in place and embrace the thinking minds.. they can put some outlines in place.. and began to fix these things..
We have the resources and the city shops that can do the work.. for example fixing signs for navigation and identity of streets.. hire the people and get this done.. it does not take a act of congress.. not a debate of 20 meeting.. it takes a outline and presentation and implementation.. such is administrative excellence put to practice..

Mayor Glover.. can't do it alone but he can support and stand with those who have position who care to get it done.. people can no longer fear the vocal individual.. nor make efforts to attack such individual by seeking to find some way to use city process to shut up such individual.. that is acts of Tierney.. and we do not live in a system of Tierney.. we live in a open democracy.. with freedom of speech as a basic right as an American..

that is such an element that needs to be addressed.. if a department head get's exposed in being non performing and because something in their scope of responsibility has been neglected.. it's not a matter of call his friends and attack the person who brings light to such.. it's a simple matter that identifies that more vigilance of administration and action of their responsibility needs to be engaged.
I think the Mayor will support such an atmosphere of positivity and progressive realism.. and not a cut throat beat down the voices type of administration..that assaults the public in such ways.

We have a Mayor that is trying very hard to bring change to an antiquated system.. and a secular concerned system.. to become a universally open embrace system.. and he is starting at the core element which is establishing and bring the foundation up to come .. that we may progress in a pattern of uniformity.. If we can stand and support such.. we can move along swiftly and make the city a city that is like a spring rose in the beauty of it's bloom.