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Band also presented the task force with possible locations for new parking lots to replace the parking that will be lost in the construction of new buildings. Planners currently envision putting all parking lots underground, an expensive proposition in an area that is converted marshland...
...that residents be allowed to return to the city and rebuild wherever they choose, regardless of how vulnerable or devastated the area. Following a 12-month period, those neighborhoods that have not sustained an undefined “critical mass” of inhabitants will likely be returned to marshland; those residents who have settled in the interim will be required to leave the region, costing the federal government millions in a buyout program and causing the again-displaced citizens much unneeded heartache. The commission’s report is not an appropriate response to the current situation...
...this a ghost swamp, one of many throughout the delta. When Katrina's winds howled in from the lake, the thinned forest around Bayou LaBranche could do little to buffer the impact on the communities of Norco and Good Hope to the south. Nor could the area's old marshland slow the storm surge that followed; most of the marsh had long since been turned into a salty lake...
...Terrebonne Parish, the most densely populated in the delta. Shipping lanes would remain routed through New Orleans, but much of the Mississippi would be diverted at Donaldsonville, 90 miles upriver from the city, so sediment-rich waters could revive the ancient riverbeds in the central delta and rebuild marshland long since lost to the Gulf. Many local groups, including the Terrebonne-based Restore or Retreat, support the idea. One major impediment: parish residents who for generations have built homes and planted sugar-cane crops along and even inside the levees where this new branch of the Mississippi would come roaring...
...into a FEMA grant program to buy out the most flood-prone properties on the condition that they never be developed again. Others say it is foolish to maintain a continuous 100-mile levee, that the parish should be converted into a string of islands of development with marshland between them. Ultimately, it may be up to individual landowners to decide if they want to roll the dice again and rebuild...