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Livingston Parish committee backs draft road-classification rules to guide future development
Summary
The Infrastructure Committee reviewed a draft ‘Division 3’ to add street classifications and traffic-calming standards to the Unified Development Code, aiming to require sidewalks and design features where roads meet specified criteria and to create a basis for future impact fees and funding requests.
Chair opened the Infrastructure Committee and yielded time to a staff presenter to explain proposed changes to the parish Unified Development Code (UDC).
The presenter said the package starts with a ‘‘Division 3 — Streets and Drainage’’ that would be implemented in the UDC and include a unified street-classification manual. "So what you have is, some documents, and what we're working on right now is a very beginning of a draft," the presenter told the committee. He described traffic-calming design elements — contours, bump-outs and islands — that…
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