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Council moves multiple land‑use ordinances, creates road infrastructure district
Summary
The Central Parish Council advanced a package of ordinances on Dec. 11 authorizing property acquisitions for road roundabouts, tightening drainage and subdivision rules in the Unified Land Development Code and approving several rezoning requests; motions were moved to ordinance with no recorded objections.
The Central Parish Council on Dec. 11 read and moved a series of ordinances covering right‑of‑way acquisitions for road projects, amendments to the Unified Land Development Code (LDC) and rezoning requests.
Council members read ordinances authorizing the parish president to negotiate and acquire parcels and servitudes for road-improvement projects, including LA 621 (Bridal Road roundabout, project MA1902/Road 20008) and LA 44 (Parker Road roundabout, project MA2205/Road 220024). The clerk of court had notified the council of a precinct relocation earlier in the meeting, and the council approved the move of Precinct 42 to Pecan Grove Primary.
On land-development policy, planning staff explained proposed LDC changes to Appendix 5 (drainage) and Appendix 4 (subdivision regulations). Staff said the drainage amendments tighten downstream hydraulic-capacity analysis and add clearer time limits for preliminary-plat progression so long‑stalled projects can be advanced or revisited. A planning staff member explained the family-partition language was adjusted to preserve larger lot minimums in newly created C‑5 zoning. "What we're doing is defining more specifically different situations and how far they gotta go downstream to do the capacity analysis," the planning speaker said.
Council also moved an ordinance to create the Ascension Parish Road Infrastructure District (IDD 202501, Riverton second filing) and approved multiple rezoning requests: Zoning review ID PZ3757.25 (Zorang Properties along LA Highway 405) and Zoning review ID PZ3773.25 (Lot B1, Crawfish Properties, LLC on LA Highway 73). Exhibits and legal descriptions were referenced; council recorded motions to open public hearings, to close and to move the measures to ordinance with no objections noted in the transcript.
The council's motions on LDC amendments and rezoning items were accompanied by instructions to publish exhibits and update official zoning maps. Planning staff said updated drainage procedures and preliminary plat timing aim to reduce uncertainty on long-term subdivision projects.
The ordinances moved at the Dec. 11 meeting now proceed to adoption steps per parish rules; specific roll-call tallies for these motions were not provided in the public transcript.
