5/17/22 Council Preview: $12.8 million more for Bayou Vermilion Flood Control; defining domestic abuse; car modification bans
Here is a selection of items on the agendas for this week’s meetings of the City and Parish councils.
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Drainage
Here’s a map of Lafayette drainage projects
Moving at a breakneck pace, LCG has dozens of drainage projects in the works. It’s an immense capital program by local government standards, racking up a bill worth well over $100 million. We mapped them.
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Dozens of drainage projects underway while LCG develops a plan
LCG employees and consultants delivered an overview of dozens of drainage projects before Lafayette’s City and Parish councils Tuesday night. Absent in the discussion was an issue playing out in the courts — whether LCG pursued such an aggressive program of construction according to a plan.
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5/3/22 Council Preview: New council maps; drainage plan update
Here is a selection of items on the agendas for this week’s meetings of the City and Parish councils. To see the full agendas, check out the links below.
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4/19/22 Council Preview: Maintaining Duson’s infrastructure, legalizing panhandling, old bars become new
Here is a selection of items on the agendas for this week’s meetings of the City and Parish councils. To see the full agendas, check out the links below.
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LCG says it has a comprehensive drainage plan. Does it?
Legal action on two detention ponds under construction hinge, at least in part, on whether Lafayette has a “comprehensive drainage plan.” LCG’s answer to that question is elusive.
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4/5/22 Council Preview: Food truck rules 2.0; Drainage lawsuits; LUS Fiber expansion; honoring Phil Lank
Here is a selection of items on the agendas for this week’s meetings of the City and Parish councils. To see the full agendas, check out the links below.
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Lafayette’s councils press for answers on quick-take drainage expropriations
The Guillory administration’s plans to declare two more private properties a “public necessity,” carving a legal path to seize the land for drainage projects, may hit a snag at tonight’s City Council meeting.
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Lafayette’s ‘new pace’ of government lands its drainage strategy in court
While Mayor-President Josh Guillory frames his approach to drainage as a way of cutting red tape, two cases allege Lafayette Consolidated Government is running roughshod over property rights.
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2/1/22 Council Preview: Redistricting moves forward, more money for drainage, harsher penalties for littering, $1 million for the Scott tire fire
Here is a selection of items on the agendas for this week’s meetings of the City and Parish councils.
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1/4 Council Preview: More ARPA funds for drainage and a new skate park; $1 million for new golf carts
Here is a selection of items on the agendas for this week’s meetings of the City and Parish Councils.
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12/15 Council Preview: New LEDA CEO makes an introduction, more ARPA money, more drainage, more rental assistance and a new skate park
Here is a selection of items on the agendas for this week’s meetings of the City and Parish councils.
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