“Why are we voting on a plan that doesn’t exist?"

Look. Even if you are the whitest Yuppie planning-humper in all of Uptown New Orleans, there is just no plausible excuse to support this obvious insult of a shell game.

Stop telling me how important it is for me to surrender my right to self-government to a cookie-cutter master plan with the "force of law" that hasn't even been drawn up yet.