[StBernard] Murphy Oil Expansion and the LRA Properties

[Westley Annis]

ST. BERNARD PARISH HOUSING, REDEVELOPMENT 
& QUALITY OF LIFE AUTHORITY COMMISSION
8201 West Judge Perez Drive Chalmette, LA 70043
(504) 278-4228 (504) 278-4209
PUBLIC NOTICE
________Distributed 12/6/07 
Friday, December 7, 2007 8:30 a.m. Council Office Trailer Page 1
Craig Taffaro, Chair Kenny Henderson, Vice-Chair Mark Madary,
Secretary/Treasurer 
AGENDA
Roll Call
Invocation 
Pledge of Allegiance 
1.       Motion to discuss criteria for new market tax credit allocations.
(Taffaro)

2.       Adopt resolution expressing no objection to LA Land Trust, LLC
allowing properties in the Murphy Oil buyout area to be transferred directly
to Murphy Oil USA contingent upon no domiciled neighbor expressing an
interest in purchasing said property. (Taffaro)


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We are urging residents to attend this meeting tomorrow morning and to email
the Louisiana Recovery Authority and inform them of the refinery's plans for
expansion onto these four streets in the Ohio Street Area.  SJK


info at louisianarecoveryauthority.org 

andy.kopplin at la.gov,   Andy Kopplin - Executive Director

krystle.beauchamp at la.gov   Krystle Beauchamp - Community Planning

Office of the Governor, Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, State of Louisiana
<http://www.gov.state.la.us/>   (this is the email link to the Gov)





"LRA properties" on these four streets, if not offered to adjoing residents
first or offered for residential redevelopment, should be permanently
designated greenspace or conservation easements and not be gifted,
transferred, sold nor made available in any manner to the refinery for
expansion or for any other use. Effecting our community's resurgence and not
thwarting our renaissance, the government should never push the homeowners
towards the refinery expansion acquisitions and should instead preserve the
integrity of the existing residential zoning. The government's active
participation in the refinery's expansion acquisitions would only permeate
and pervade the decades long encroachment of this heavy industry into the
neighborhood. That action would literally move the refinery fenceline west
onto the next four streets of the subdivision leaving little or no
greenspace protection.

We petition the Louisiana Recovery Authority and the St Bernard Parish
Housing, Redevelopment and Quality of Life Commission to consider first
offering the residential properties to adjoing residents or other
perspective homeowners. If not, they should designate "LRA" properties in
these four street areas as permanent greenspace and not to transfer
ownership to the Murphy Refinery.