Ahead of blight court proceedings some discarded lifeboats moved to another location in BR

BATON ROUGE – An East Baton Rouge Metro Councilman is crying foul after lifeboats that were deemed by the city-parish as junk trash and debris were moved to his district. Councilman Darryl Hurst said this week he began noticing the boats appearing in front of a business on Airline Highway and North Foster. “The city is already seeing them as blight, and so if they don’t obey the process, we will take them to a landfill,” Hurst said. We showed you last week that the city-parish initiated blight court proceedings and gave the owner of the property and a former…