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Commission recommends residential rezoning for Catalano property on Highway 621 despite neighbors' traffic worries
Summary
The commission voted 6–1 to recommend rezoning about 9.6 acres on Highway 621 from Rural to Medium Intensity Residential to correct a split zoning; residents raised strong safety and tax concerns, including one account of a near‑fatal pedestrian crash.
The Ascension Parish Zoning Commission on Dec. 10 voted to recommend that the parish council rezone approximately 9.6 acres on Louisiana Highway 621 from Rural to Medium Intensity Residential (RM), correcting an existing split zoning on the parcel.
Benny Johnson, representing the Catalano family, said the rezoning seeks to "clean up a zone split" that was created previously by court decree and to establish a…
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