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Lafayette Comprehensive Master Plan
LCG Comprehensive Planning Division
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March 11, 2010 -
Joe Riley presented his vision for Charleston at the Independent smart growth Lecture Luncheon on May 12, 2009. This is a similar presentation that was given to planning staff by the Joseph P. Riley Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Studies in the College of Charleston. (Click here for More)
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October 5, 2011 -
The Lafayette City-Parish Administration is finalizing the negotiation of a contract and a scope of work for the planning services of Wallace Roberts & Todd to complete a Comprehensive Plan for the parish.
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October 5, 2011 -
The Lousiana Chapter of the American Planning Association has scheduled its 2012 Conference in Lake Charles on January 25-27, 2012. (Click here for More)
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November 9, 2011 -
SURVEY: LUS and LCG Public Works have collaborated to get a clearer understanding of how to better assist the Lafayette community's outdoor watering needs. They are requesting Lafayette residents take a 5-minute survey that will ask questions about their outdoor watering activities. The survey will allow LUS and Public Works to determine the interest level of participants in using a rain barrel as a method for their outdoor watering. (Click here for Survey)
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Why is it important to have a land use plan?
Sporadic, hap-hazard land use developments
often create conflicts among residents, businesses and land owners.
One of the tools used to mitigate these land use conflicts through
zoning districts. A land use plan should help facilitate the highest
and best compatible uses with existing and proposed new land use
development. What is built, when it is built and how it is built
directs public and private investment toward a community goal or
objective without the negative impacts of conflicts and helps maintain
or enhance property value.
How does a land use plan affect me?
Where an individual might build a residence,
usiness or industrial structure can be restricted by the land use plan.
Compatibility, continuity, and conformity to the adopted land use plan
impacts what an individual or business may build.
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The Comprehensive Master PlanLAND USE PLAN |
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The Land Use Element identifies recommendations for managed growth in the city
and parish using both incentives and regulations. This element upholds an
infrastructure system in the parish, so the burden of new development will not
be placed on current citizens. Accordingly, the element suggests that development
be encouraged in existing urban areas and around the transportation system. The
Land Use Element recommends this be done through performance-based criterion. The
performance measures should be consistent with the expansion of the government's
infrastructure (Capital Improvement Program) in order to allow for increased
efficiency. Growth that is consistent with this plan should involve incentives
through tax programs and districts such as Tax Increment Financing (TIF), Community
Facilities Improvement Districts, and Redevelopment Districts.
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Scheduled Meetings:
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Monday, February 13, 2012
La Place Coterie
5:30 PM at the Rosa Parks Transportation Center
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Department of Traffic and Transportation
101 East Cypress Street, Lafayette, LA 70502
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