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February 2, 2022

Lafayette is chipping away at a mountain of adjudicated properties

Bit by bit, LCG is tackling a frustrating and costly problem that has festered for decades. With well over 1,000 adjudicated properties on the rolls at any one time, there’s a long way to go. And for those who live next to the properties, resolution can’t come fast enough.

Redeveloping adjudicated properties in Lafayette is slow — that’s by design

Lafayette’s pace of moving hundreds of orphaned and blighted properties back into commerce has some convinced LCG isn’t really trying.

Lafayette has a redevelopment authority. Why aren’t we using it?

Vacant and abandoned properties have metastasized in Lafayette. A robust redevelopment authority ought to be part of the solution, experts say.