[StBernard] beer brewery supposedly proposed for Chalona neighborhood

[Westley Annis]

>For whatever it's worth, it has been said by two different St Bernard 

>Parish Government Officials, that the people should go along with the 

>commercial zoning change of R1 residential property to Commercial on 

>Chalona Drive


SJK:  do you know who those two officials are?  

Also, if it's R1 how can they build apts on it?  And, would these new owners
have to get a zoning change for the brewery?  How could it go to heavy
industrial?




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	The current law states commercial SHALL NOT exceed 250 feet.  The
new owners
	purchased residential property; a brewery requires heavy industrial
with a
	conditional use.
	
	For whatever it's worth, it has been said by two different St
Bernard Parish
	Government Officials, that the people should go along with the
commercial
	zoning change of R1 residential property to Commercial on Chalona
Drive,
	because if the zoning change is not granted, the new owner of the
property
	will construct Section 8 Apartments or Housing in back of the
Chalona
	Apartments.
	
	When I heard this I was appalled that such "blockbusting" tactics
would be
	used. It is illegal and makes the parish further liable. Further,
the
	property is zoned R1 residential and only single family dwellings
can be
	constructed on R1 property. The neighbors, the people that the
council is
	supposed to represent, do not want the zoning change. It is spot
zoning,
	which is also illegal.