Lafayette Consolidated Government has chosen the horse farm — those gorgeous, rolling, 90-plus acres in the heart of Lafayette that will one day be a passive park devoted to cycling, walking and lazing about — to unveil the Lafayette Comprehensive Plan Vision Statement. The vision statement is a product of the community forums and “meetings in a box” that nearly 1,000 Lafayette residents participated in this past spring to express how they want Lafayette to look and function in decades to come.
Planners at Wallace, Roberts & Todd, the Philadelphia planning firm hired by LCG to guide the comprehensive planning process, have taken hundreds of surveys and brainstorming notes from those forums and meetings and synthesized them into a comprehensive vision for the future. That vision will be unveiled and celebrated from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, June 30.
The locale for the unveiling isn’t coincidental: This week the University of Louisiana System board approved UL Lafayette’s sale of the horse farm to LCG, a deal that’s long been in the works.
“This is the people’s park,” says City-Parish President Joey Durel in a press release announcing the event. “It was identified as a place worth saving for the benefit of all citizens by a group of students whose cause caught the attention of the community. Through the tremendous cooperation of Dr. [Joseph] Savoie, we hope to have something many communities will never see — 100 acres of magnificent oak trees, rolling hills and vast green space right in the heart of our community. I can’t think of a better place to discuss a reflection of a shared vision for Lafayette in the future. The ties between that tangible part of Lafayette’s future and our community’s vision for the Lafayette of 20 years from now are too important not to link.”
The horse farm is located on the 2900 block of Johnston Street across from Winnwood Shopping Center. Parking for the event will be available there and at the Regions Bank adjacent to the park.
JUNE 17 If anyone ever wonders why Saints fans hate Atlanta with a capital H, here's a good indication. Radio "professionals" at an Atlanta station created an entire segment around making fun of former Saints player Steve Gleason, who is now paralyzed by ALS. Listen, nobody's ever accused DJs of being rocket scientists. But how could someone think it is amusing to pretend to ask a man with a degenerative, fatal disease if he will be alive next week? The DJs have been fired, and are now whining about how gutless their former bosses are. Wow.
JUNE 18 Here's the latest from the Advocate on the fatal hit-and-run accident allegedly involving the president of the Livingston Parish School Board. He's accused by police of hitting a 21-year-old man on a highway early Sunday and driving away. The man died at a hospital later. On Monday, police seized the president's truck and towed it away. But he's available for board meetings: apparently a $500 bond is sufficient for this type of thing over in St. Helena Parish.
JUNE 18 Former broadcast journalist Griffin Scott has posted this plea on his blog for financial assistance from his readers. Scott, who says he was fired after he wrote something fairly innocuous (for Facebook) on his wall, is suing a media giant for his job back. He's framed himself as David going after a bloated media giant, and he's probably not far off.
JUNE 18 Here's a fairly absurd column posted on DIG Magazine about the completely absurd practice of naming killer storms. Tornadoes don't have names. Blizzards don't have names. But hurricanes do, and there's a big process to bestow them, Jacques Cormery writes. He's right about the crazy assemblage of names -- this year, there's everything from Tanya to Humberto -- and his idea that we don't waste good names on killer storms is a good one.
JUNE 17 Political columnist John Maginnis has some advice for Louisiana Republicans: grow up. After the schism that occurred in this past session - fiscal hawks teaming up with Democrats to spank the Republican "majority" and hand Gov. Jindal his, er, aspirations for continued solon control -- they need to figure out how to get along with each other, Maginnis writes.
JUNE 17 Here's the Picayune's obit story for Dorothy 'Miss Dot' Domilise, the lady who made poboys at the uptown restaurant that bears her name. Miss Dot moved to New Orleans during World War II, where she met and married her husband Sam. When she passed away Friday she was 90, and had spent more than 60 of those years working at the restaurant on Annunciation Street.
JUNE 17 This editorial in the Advocate speaks in favor of the consent decrees that have federal judges overseeing police operations and the sheriff's parish prison in New Orleans. Mayor Landrieu and Sheriff Gusman can't get along, so outside forces, like the Inspector General and the judges, are needed to make sure things run right, the editorial opines.
JUNE 18 Here's a post from Manny Schewitz on Forward Progressives that is good for a chuckle. Manny had an epiphany back in November, and is sharing it with us today: he believes that Fox "News" is killing the GOP by pandering to right wing nuts. Now, don't get it twisted: Manny's not broke up about it. He says he enjoys watching the downward spiral with a shot of whiskey and "a schadenfreude chaser."
In rendering his ruling, District Judge John Trahan all but called the real estate developer a liar for inconsistencies in his accounts of what prompted him to punch a school teacher unconscious.
Frank’s Casing Crew, now doing business as Frank’s International, will make its final appearance on ABiz’s list of the Top 50 Privately Held Companies in Acadiana this year, and once again, it will likely be at the top with more than $1 billion in annual revenues. The 75-year-old company specializing in tubular fabrication and installation services to the oil and gas industry plans to go public this year.
The defeat, or rather highjacking of House Bill 420 in the final days of this year's Legislative Session, say Reps. Vincent Pierre and Terry Landry, is the result of the propaganda spread by one unidentified local media outlet and an unnamed former state Representative, but nothing to do with the original legislation's lack of checks, balances or details.
City-Parish Council Chairman Brandon Shelvin heaped steady doses of condescending ire on a Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Louisiana executive while failing to reveal his financial ties to a BC/BS rival.
Abbeville native David Primeaux was a popular professor until his death late last year, and while he was successful at camouflaging a dark past, he couldn’t outlive it.
Tehmi Chassion’s failure to recuse himself in the school board’s selection of a group health benefits provider raises ‘serious questions’ on whether he violated state ethics law.
He’s a singer. A songwriter. A piano man. A family man. He’s even got his own Wikipedia entry. He’s David Egan. And he knows ancient secrets about the monolithic stones of Stonehenge that he’s not willing to share.
Lafayette Consolidated Government has chosen the horse farm — those gorgeous, rolling, 90-plus acres in the heart of Lafayette that will one day be a passive park devoted to cycling, walking and lazing about — to unveil the Lafayette Comprehensive Plan Vision Statement. The vision statement is a product of the community forums and “meetings in a box” that nearly 1,000 Lafayette residents participated in this past spring to express how they want Lafayette to look and function in decades to come.
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