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Kenner council approves conditional use for airport shuttle road, apron expansion and new parking lots amid drainage concerns
Summary
The Kenner City Council approved a conditional use allowing three airport projects — a shuttle connector road, an east apron expansion and two surface parking lots — after planners said stormwater plans meet city standards and airport staff said pump capacity and manual overrides address runoff concerns. The final vote was 6–1.
Kenner — The City of Kenner on a January 2026 council meeting approved a conditional use application authorizing three projects on airport property: an express shuttle connector road, an east apron expansion and two new surface parking lots.
A Planning Department representative described the package as planning case P19-25 and said the projects are intended to reduce shuttle transit times, provide additional aircraft service space and add roughly 449 parking spaces in two new surface lots (about 125 and 324 spaces). The planning presentation said tree counts and some landscaping details were incomplete in the submitted plans and must be provided before permits are issued, but that the applicant’s stormwater management plan was reviewed and found to meet the city’s regulations.
"This project will build a new road on airport property," the Planning Department representative…
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