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NEW ORLEANS Some New Orleans residents and city officials are pushing back against tour operators who bus out-of-towners into the city s Lower 9th Ward, where Hurricane Katrina unleashed a wall of water that pushed homes off foundations and stranded residents on rooftops when the levees failed.About 9
stanley cup million people visit New Orleans each year, mostly to see its stately homes along oak-lined avenues, dine at its renowned restaurants and take in the jazz and ribaldry of Bourbon Street.But Katrina s devastation in August 2005 unleashed an unexpected cottage tourism industry, drawing a daily parade of rubbernecking tourists for a close-up look at the city s hard-hit Lower 9th Ward.Worried that a flood of tour buses and vans would interfere with clean-up efforts, the City Council approved an ordinance in 2006 banning them from crossing the prominent Industrial Canal entering the neighborhood that received Katrina s fury. Now, tour operators are crying foul, claiming the ordinance had been thinly enforced until recently.They say a business that is bringing them and the city tourist dollars is being hurt. I can t afford to keep paying tickets, said David Lee Duco
stanley website te, owner of Southern Style Tours.As the Lower 9th Ward slowly rebuilds 151; vacant lots still attest to where homes once stood 151; visitor interest has also been piqued by housing built by actor Brad Pitt and his Make It Right foundation.City Councilman Ernest
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