Future Triple City Region (Hammond, Galliano: university, suburban, trees)

[MetroBTR]

Southeast Louisiana Metropolitan Area or Southeast Louisiana Metroplex.

Funny how the development will literally make a ring.

[annie_himself]

Originally Posted by WestbankNOLA

Only way BR and No could truly connect would be if the communities along the river filled in.

Aren't the river towns growing?

Louisiana Ring, Tri-City Ring, or Lake Ring

[Innotech]

they grow, but really slowly. There isnt the kind of explosive suburb growth herel ike you see in some states. Growth is more gradual and closer to the cities. You wont find crazy spaghetti junctions and super highways here. You wont find a thousand cookie cutter homes with cul de sacs (but there are a few small developments like that around and especially near Gonzales) taking up miles of space. What you do tend to find is a lot of older wooded subdivisions located closer to the city centers and still very much in use. There is a lot of unused space around the cities (except New Orleans) so you would probably see in-filling of those areas long before any certain place reaches out far enough to connect.

[WestbankNOLA]

Growth in Southeastern Louisiana varies from one extreme to the next if you ask me. In Orleans, Jefferson, and St. Bernard everything stays as close as possible and gridded even when there are 'beaucoups' of land available. Move over to St. James, St. John, and Plaquemines you get tightly packed clusters of development and semi-cookie cutter homes; but these clusters seem to be largely spaced between one to the next. You get a density -> farmland -> density -> wetland -> density type of deal going. South of these parishes you have communities that follow and are parallel to bodies of water and twist accordingly. Move up north to St. Tammany and southwestern Tangipahoa and you get a coastal/wooded hybrid deal going on. The development, as well as look and feel, is more in tune with that of panhandle FL with a little of the N.O. influence. Head west to Baton Rouge and you start to encounter more traditional cookie cutter development.

[annie_himself]

Originally Posted by WestbankNOLA

Growth in Southeastern Louisiana varies from one extreme to the next if you ask me. In Orleans, Jefferson, and St. Bernard everything stays as close as possible and gridded even when there are 'beaucoups' of land available. Move over to St. James, St. John, and Plaquemines you get tightly packed clusters of development and semi-cookie cutter homes; but these clusters seem to be largely spaced between one to the next. You get a density -> farmland -> density -> wetland -> density type of deal going. South of these parishes you have communities that follow and are parallel to bodies of water and twist accordingly. Move up north to St. Tammany and southwestern Tangipahoa and you get a coastal/wooded hybrid deal going on. The development, as well as look and feel, is more in tune with that of panhandle FL with a little of the N.O. influence. Head west to Baton Rouge and you start to encounter more traditional cookie cutter development.

Not trying to be rude but what does this have to do with it?

[WestbankNOLA]

Originally Posted by annie_himself

Not trying to be rude but what does this have to do with it?

I was adding on with the thread above it.... On that note, growth patterns DO play a large role in how an area develops. It would be much easier for cookie-cutter and random sprawl to connect than random clusters spread outbetween farms and wetlands.. It would also happen faster .

[Rosinante]

Originally Posted by WestbankNOLA

Only way BR and No could truly connect would be if the communities along the river filled in.

I pray to God that this doesn't happen in my lifetime.

[annie_himself]

Originally Posted by Rosinante

I pray to God that this doesn't happen in my lifetime.

Depending on age, it might not. But why not?

[WestbankNOLA]

Originally Posted by Rosinante

I pray to God that this doesn't happen in my lifetime.

I'm in the middle on that one. I somewhat agree, somewhat don't. Unless there is a rail in between, trying to get from NO to BR would be hell. Just think of an evacuation. I am curious to see what would happen when BR met NO though. The development patterns are exact opposites so that would be interesting to see, plus the architecture and culture of the suburban Southshore meets that of Metro Baton Rouge. I actually would love to see that, just to see the chaos where they meet. People in NO nearly had strokes when BR and LSU proposed building a hospital with parking lots. I'd love to see the politics out there if they ever met. Hell, people in Metairie nearly died because Wal-Mart has a parking lot in front of it.

[annie_himself]

Originally Posted by WestbankNOLA

I'm in the middle on that one. I somewhat agree, somewhat don't. Unless there is a rail in between, trying to get from NO to BR would be hell. Just think of an evacuation. I am curious to see what would happen when BR met NO though. The development patterns are exact opposites so that would be interesting to see, plus the architecture and culture of the suburban Southshore meets that of Metro Baton Rouge. I actually would love to see that, just to see the chaos where they meet. People in NO nearly had strokes when BR and LSU proposed building a hospital with parking lots. I'd love to see the politics out there if they ever met. Hell, people in Metairie nearly died because Wal-Mart has a parking lot in front of it.

I think we would borrow much from New Orleans, such as better development ideas. I wish the Mall of Louisiana would never have built parking lots all together. As Hammond is in semi-neutral territory, how are the developments coming out there? We could use some New Orleans spruce in Baton Rouge.