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Residents appeal approval for 5041 Imperial Drive multifamily project; council takes no action
Summary
Terrebonne Parish council heard public objections to a Planning & Zoning approval for a proposed multifamily development at 5041 Imperial Drive, citing traffic safety, tree removal and neighborhood impacts; the council did not reverse the zoning board decision and took no further action at the June 11 meeting.
The Terrebonne Parish Consolidated Government Council on June 11 heard several residents appeal a Planning & Zoning Commission approval allowing a developer to place multiple multifamily buildings and a clubhouse at 5041 Imperial Drive, but the council ultimately took no action on the appeal.
Pamela Porsche, who identified herself as a nearby resident, told the council she did not understand “how a residential building park can be placed somewhere that ordinances would not normally allow it.” Porsche said the project would add about 120 multifamily units near Imperial Terraces and that developer-provided site plans preserved only three of 11 mature oak trees on the parcel.
Louella Lorang, another Imperial Drive resident, said the proposed entrance onto Hollywood Road is dangerous and warned, “Somebody’s gonna die,” if traffic patterns are unchanged. Ronnie Boudreaux, who said he has lived in the neighborhood 30 years, urged council members to visit the site at evening peak traffic, calling the current conditions “dangerous.”
A parish attorney told the council that when an appeal comes from the Planning & Zoning Commission the reviewing body must determine whether the commission’s decision was arbitrary. The attorney said the council had received the full hearing record earlier in the week to assist its review.
After public comment and council discussion about traffic and procedural limits on review, the chair reported that the council “decided, eventually without any motion, to not take any action” on the appeal. The record of the Planning & Zoning hearing remains available to the council for review.
The dispute also included competing claims about local housing availability: Porsche said she contacted local apartment complexes and found vacancies, questioning an assertion she said the parish president made that the area is short about 800 units of affordable housing. The council did not address that specific numerical claim in its discussion.
Next steps: the council provided no motion, no vote and no further direction at the meeting. The Planning & Zoning Commission approval from April 17, 2025, remains in the administrative record.
