[Sunny]

Average, you need to get out more if you think this area is the busiest in the city. The traffic does get bad on "Get Away Fridays", like many other areas around town. The Traffic Study is the responsibility of the city.

Should we not build in the outskirts of the city because the interstates are extremely over burdened?

The traffic study TND Trip Generation Study you speak of was written in April 2004. The sprawl numbers you speak of are 1990, which is the lastest available. Yes, the sprawl in the Baton Rouge area has gotten much worse since Katrina, which is all the more reason to build Infill TND Villages like Rouzan.

I'm assumng that you don't live in the Southdowns area, otherwise you would know that the average price for housing in this area is above $200,000. The housing market in the Baton Rouge area is actually very health, unlike most other areas of the country.

My last name is neither Spinosa nor Rouzan, but I do live very close to the Rouzan site and plan to walk to the library very often.

I wish I could take credit for the For Rouzan web site, although I have made some suggestions for information included in the web site. Another resident who also lives near the Rouzan site is the web master.

I think what "Average Citizen" was trying to say was this:

1. This is a multi million dollar project the most recent data they can get is almost 20 years old?

2. With an average income of 41K in Baton Rouge, who is expected to buy all of this new housing (I think you actually help his argument with saying the prices are even higher than he was supposing.)

3. You don't think the developers have any responsibility to the people already living in an area to take into consideration the traffic they are adding to an area?


And on a personal note:

You don't think its that busy over there? College, Acadian, Burbank, and Perkins?