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Councilors recommend tightening minor resubdivision rules, urging drainage plans and servitude access
Summary
Members of the Livingston Parish Ordinance Committee discussed a proposed ordinance to prevent repeated minor resubdivisions of large tracts, recommend reducing the current nine‑lot minor resub threshold to four lots, and require drainage plans and servitude access for future minor subdivisions.
A Livingston Parish council member introduced an ordinance Friday aimed at closing what he called a loophole allowing repeated minor resubdivisions of large tracts into nine‑lot parcels, and asked the committee to send the proposal to the full council with a recommendation to lower the minor‑subdivision threshold from nine lots to four.
The measure responds to complaints from gravity drainage districts that repeated, small resubdivisions occur without drainage impact analysis or servitude for maintenance, leaving downstream systems uncertain where runoff will go and preventing crews from accessing private ditches. "We have no servitude of access," a resident who gave his address as 32774…
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