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New program puts Lafayette community in charge of adjudicated properties
Lafayette is looking to a new idea to offload adjudicated properties: putting communities in charge of their fates
Lafayette is looking to a new idea to offload adjudicated properties: putting communities in charge of their fates
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.
Lafayette’s City Council is set to vote Tuesday on setting aside $9.5 million to buy a new building for City Court, while both councils will look at allowing Sunday morning beer sales.
Zoning regulations make replicating the density of the city’s early suburban neighborhoods nearly impossible.
Lafayette’s City Council will vote on the city’s first rules for short-term rentals and look at reviving a $9.5 million plan to move City Court.
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.
The suit claims Priscilla Gonzalez failed to meet local residency requirements and falsely certified that she had filed federal and state income tax returns.
Lafayette’s annual budget season is here, and in just about a month the city and parish councils will be voting on how to spend hundreds of millions of tax dollars next year. Take a deep dive into the proposed budget with our updated explorer.
Council members were nevertheless supportive of the raises Tuesday and will vote Aug. 22 to make them effective in September and October.
Two years after a local agency stepped in to fund necessary sewer capacity upgrades in Downtown Lafayette, another fix is needed and a new plan is in the works.
In all, Lafayette is in line for $688 million across dozens of projects in this year’s proposed state budget, including big money for UL and parish government.
The legislative auditor’s office would only confirm that the agency is conducting an investigative audit at LCG.
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