
Lafayette’s flood risk is worse than it seems, and we’ve built right into it
For decades, Lafayette has grown into flood prone areas, but that has come with a hidden risk.
For decades, Lafayette has grown into flood prone areas, but that has come with a hidden risk.
No one was asking for a new city courthouse. That means we’re paying a high public premium to subsidize a private development.
Cities around the country have blazed new trails with solutions to their housing problems that Lafayette can learn from. But its own citizens have answers too.
The push to adopt new rules for short-term rentals has some Lafayette neighborhoods concerned about the fallout of a plan that threatens to shift the operations to lower-income parts of the city.
Recent data suggest growth in Lafayette Parish is primarily driven by residents leaving surrounding parishes, not net migration. That’s not sustainable.
Tightening commercial and residential development could upend Lafayette’s economy and, in turn, crimp funding for local government.
Architect Stephen Ortego proposes variations on the I-49 Connector plan that he argues are more city-friendly — and cheaper, too.
Here is a selection of items on the agendas for this week’s meetings of the City and Parish councils.
The $50 million announced last month took pretty much everyone by surprise — even the Corps of Engineers. If the Corps dredges the river, it will be for navigation, not reducing floods.
The legislation could make it easier to move blighted properties and redevelop economically beleaguered North Lafayette.
Tuesday is the City-Parish Council members’ second-to-last meeting ever, and they’re not phoning it in. Here’s what on the agenda for Dec. 3.
Spending millions of city dollars to build a road through a cane field isn’t a new idea. We can’t afford to keep making the same mistakes.
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