Louisiana
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.
Judge rules against LCG in second expropriation case, orders halt on work at massive Homewood site
Taking aim at Mayor-President Josh Guillory’s broken promise and a conflict of interest for the project’s engineer, District Judge Valerie Gotch Garrett today ruled that LCG’s quick-take expropriation of Bendel family land for a massive detention pond project was improper. She ordered that work on the 270-acre tract “cease immediately” and assigned court costs to LCG.
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.
Lafayette, don’t miss these artists during Festival International 2022
Festival International 2022 has a dizzying array of international and local talent. The Current’s readers, friends and staff have some pics to help you choose.
How to make Festival International last forever
Ready to take your love of Festival to the next level? Here’s how to support Festival International and give back to an event that gives so much to Lafayette.
Will Lafayette’s largest detention project protect many homes? We don’t know.
Homewood’s primary effect is during smaller storms and is localized to the banks of the Vermilion River. That caps the number of homes likely spared from flooding.
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.
COLUMN: Swinging for the fences distracts Lafayette from making real progress
Our history is full of examples of how dreaming big paid off for Lafayette. But big dreams can distract from accomplishing small, important tasks.
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.
Its $60 million detention project in legal jeopardy, Lafayette asks for more state money
LCG is once again at the state trough for the $60 million Bayou Vermilion Flood Control project currently halted by court order. LCG has asked for $23 million in the 2022 state budget, on top of $27 million awarded last year.
COLUMN: LCG’s ‘new pace of government’ could waste millions of drainage dollars
Guillory’s bureaucracy-busting approach could force Lafayette to spend millions filling holes it just spent millions digging out.