LINC Designated Area #4

LINC Designated Areas are defined by the planning staff as many neighborhoods (subdivisions) or large property owners in a defined planning area. The main reasons for having Designated Areas is to allow citizens to engage in a process, informing, involving, assisting, coordinating and cooperating with citizens in community planning and local government. The focus of this citizen engagement program is to identify for property owners, residents and businesses within the target area the problems and opportunities to resolving those problems.

Below we have include public notices that were mailed to property owners

Public Meeting Notices #1

You are invited to a brief introduction and "charrette" on the LINC Designated Neighborhood Pilot Program being tested for the area identified on the attached map. The meeting will be held May 24, 2001 at 6:00 p.m. in the Brown Park Recreation Center.

The LINC Neighborhood Pilot Program is being tested in conjunction with the preparation of the Lafayette Parish Comprehensive Plan: Lafayette In a Century (LINC). This Pilot effort is a seven month experiment to engage citizens living and working in a limited defined geographical neighborhood area in the City of Lafayette. By "engage"is meant the process of informing, involving, assisting, coordinating and cooperating with citizens in community planning and local government. The focus of this citizen engagement program is to identify for property owners, residents and businesses within the target area the problems and opportunities to resolving those problems. The objective is to build a bridge between average citizens on the street and local government through a potential neighborhood approach. Government is criticized, but government has resource limitations.

You are under no obligation to attend this or any subsequent meetings/workshops involved in this pilot program. This is strictly a voluntary opportunity for you to be informed and participate in a process which may impact on the future of your immediate area and Lafayette City-Parish.

If your name/address are not properly identified or you have a neighbor who has not received this letter, corrections will be made over the next several weeks. I look forward to meeting and working with you over the next seven months. If you have any questions or comments, please contact me at 291-8016 or the LINC Hotline at 291-5000.

Sincerely,

Mike Hollier, AICP
Planning Manager

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Public Meeting Notices #2

I want to thank those of you who have taken the time from your busy schedules to write, call and/or attend the charrette for your LINC Designated Neighborhood. This is your neighborhood and we will follow your recommendations to the greatest degree possible. The concerns you have raised and we have focused on are the following:

1) Louisiana Ave. Extension and Interchange
2) Interstate 10 Service Roads
3) Neighborhood street development
3) New residential neighborhood development
4) Land Use
5) Drainage system
6) Commercial location options
7) Neighborhood Parks

The Community Design Workshop has developed two alternative plans for your review and consideration. Your suggestions, concerns, and recommendations have been applied to both development concepts to the greatest degree practical. The purpose of this review meeting is to obtain your comments, objections, and changes to the two proposals and determine which has the better chance of approval. Thank you again for your interest and participation.

We have scheduled the review meeting on Thursday, July 12, 2001 at 6:00 p.m. in the Dupuis Center at Brown Park, located at 1212 East Pont Des Mouton Rd. If you have any questions, please contact me 291-8016.

The LINC Neighborhood Pilot Program is being tested in conjunction with the preparation of the Lafayette Parish Comprehensive Plan: Lafayette In a Century (LINC). Help build a "community of choice."

If you have any questions or comments, please contact the LINC Hotline at 291-5000.

Sincerely,

Mike Hollier, AICP
Planning Manager

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