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Master plan committee backs codified process for legacy drainage problems
Summary
The Livingston Parish Master Plan Review Committee voted to recommend a codified process for handling legacy drainage issues and to ask that the drainage master plan incorporate specific remediation steps for older subdivisions with problematic detention ponds and unclear ownership.
The Livingston Parish Master Plan Review Committee on May 5 voted to recommend that the parish adopt a codified process for handling legacy drainage problems and that the work be incorporated into the drainage master plan being developed alongside the comprehensive master plan.
Committee members said the proposal is intended to create a consistent set of steps for responding when older neighborhoods — many built before current ordinances — experience flooding, rather than handling each case differently. During the discussion committee members repeatedly cited neighborhoods such as Collins Place and College Place as examples where detention ponds lack clear ownership and streets flood after modest rain.
The committee’s recommendation asks planning and zoning and the parish’s drainage contractors to draft a step-by-step remediation plan (a “punch list”) that…
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