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Council approves setback waiver and preliminary plat for new South Satsuma Road fire station
Summary
The Livingston Parish Council approved a setback variance and the preliminary plat for a new, larger fire station on South Satsuma Road after hearing from the project engineer that the site is constrained by an existing 3-phase electric line; the fire district agreed to additional mitigation including a taller fence and relocating vehicle bays.
The Livingston Parish Council voted to approve a setback waiver and to accept the preliminary plat for a new Livingston Parish Fire District station on South Satsuma Road.
Vincent Orlando, a civil engineer with Quality Engineering, told the council the project had been tabled in 2021 and that the developer is seeking a waiver of the required setback because a three-phase DEMCO power line runs immediately north of the planned building site. Orlando said the project team had obtained the adjacent landowner’s written signoff on the site plan and that Fire District leadership had offered mitigation measures, including increasing the fence height from 8 feet to 10 feet and moving vehicle bays to the opposite side of the building to reduce noise impacts.
“This project came back. It was tabled in 2021 for a bunch of different reasons, but basically, we’re asking for a waiver on the setback variance between this commercial development and the residential development directly to the south,” Orlando said. He added the new station is intended to be the flagship station for the district and to serve the airport and surrounding community.
A member of the public asked about the station’s distance from the airport; Orlando said the planned location is slightly more than a quarter-mile from where airport property would start and that the site was chosen to provide a direct road connection to the airport. Orlando also said the nearest existing fire station is more than seven miles away.
Council members voted to approve the waiver and preliminary plat. The transcript records the motion and a second and shows the item passed via electronic vote (iPad); a numerical vote tally was not recorded in the transcript.
Project history and neighborhood impacts were discussed in public comment; council members and the presenter emphasized the site constraints posed by the power line and described the fence-height and bay-relocation measures as mitigations.
What’s next: council approval of the waiver and preliminary plat allows the fire district and developer to proceed with final design and permitting steps. The transcript does not specify a construction timeline or permit dates.
