The Greater Lafayette Chamber of Commerce plans to take a close look at Lafayette Consolidated Government’s planning and zoning process, including a possible restructuring of its Planning, Zoning and Codes Department. At a general assembly meeting on Saturday, architect Steve Oubre and developer Robert Daigle, the team that designed River Ranch, will lead a discussion titled “Unified Lafayette/Growth with a purpose” which will focus on possible reforms to city government planning and zoning.
“We’re going to get under the hood in terms of discussing how to make good decisions on how we should grow,” says Chamber President Rob Guidry. “A component of that will certainly be how the consolidated government’s planning and zoning process works and how the department is structured in an effort to have it become as efficient and effective as possible.”
Guidry acknowledges the general assembly meeting could result in a vote to adopt recommendations to be forwarded to LCG. “It’s not going to be an ambush or contentious type proposal,” Guidry stresses. “I anticipate this being a recommendation from the business community who deals with the planning department on a regular basis.” The discussion will take place as part of the chamber’s annual Building Community Conference, which takes 150 community leaders out of town for a weekend-long conference to discuss the chamber’s role in serving the community. Representing LCG at the conference will be City-Parish President Joey Durel, Police Chief Jim Craft and councilmen Purvis Morrison and Don Bertrand.
David Calhoun and Elizabeth “EB” Brooks are the first two employees of Lafayette Central Park Inc., the nonprofit charged with turning Lafayette Consolidated Government’s 100-acre Johnston Street Horse Farm property into a passive public park. Calhoun was named executive director, and Brooks is director of planning and design.
Is it a crime for citizens to photograph, video, or take notes of a police officer in the line of duty, or a right protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution? Locally, such activity, as witnessed recently, will at the very least result in a night spent behind bars.
At Thursday's State of the Economy luncheon, LEDA President and CEO Gregg Gothreaux said PXP has already quietly hired 180 people for its Broussard expansion.
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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