Emeril and family restaurants arent the only endangered species. Imagine in addition to all the other regulations if he were told he could not serve three unrelated people at the same table in his family restaurant. How that would impact his business? Well, that is just what local government is doing to peoples property rights in Baton Rouge. Thats correct. A Landlord cant serve(i.e. rent to) three unrelated people at the same A-1 zoned family home because the government has usurped the right to define who is your family and who you choose to live with. Property rights and personal familial relationships are as sacrosanct under the constitution as are the right to public accommodations in a restaurant. While the moral imperative rational for the government defining who you can live with and who a property owner can rent to is low density areas, that so-called rational is irrational when closely examined. An unlimited number of related people can live together and somehow that is less dense than three unrelated. if four related persons can share a house then it is no more dense for four unrelated to do so. I suspect one of the reasons for the contorted definition of family is to protect the chains (seeing the analogy?) of large out of state developers who come into town to build huge high density apartment complexes and redevelopment projects with new market and other tax credits. The more A-1 houses are restricted to renters the bigger the market supply for the big chain builders of apartments to rent their projects. Emeril, mom and pop landlords feel your pain! Maybe the new EBR Planning and Zoning Director will talk some sense into the administration and Metro Council, which has been unwilling to tackle the definition of family since 1954 when it was implemented to keep non-traditional black families out of white neighborhoods after the Brown vs. Board of Education decision struck separate but equal in education and the panic spread that it might spread to housing and other areas of society. Now, after subsequent decisions, it is basically applicable only to young people, foster families, and non traditional families which, incidentally, make up more than 50% of the population in this day and time. See others posts on this topic at Steve Myers facebook page and go to themyersmessage for details of the legal battle looming ahead.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 02:36:14 +0000
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