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Applicant withdraws Durango Drive rezoning request after commissioners urge site plan
Summary
Owners of a 3.1-acre Durango Drive parcel withdrew their request to rezone from R1 to R1.5 after commissioners and staff advised returning with a site plan showing achievable lot layouts and drainage constraints; the applicant plans to return next month with drawings.
Cibil Humphre, who owns a 3.1-acre parcel at 35622 Durango Drive with her husband Hill Humphre, asked the Livingston Parish Zoning Commission on May 7 to rezone the property from R1 to R1.5 so the family could create additional residences and two small rental units.
Commissioners and planning staff cautioned that rezoning to R1.5 would permit up to six lots on the parcel, and that the property's shape, setbacks and a drainage ditch could make six lots infeasible. Mr. Burns said he had spoken with Councilman Lonnie Watts, who had no objection, but several commissioners stressed that approving R1.5 would place that zoning on the land permanently and could allow future owners to develop more units. Planning staff advised the Humphres to prepare a basic site plan or a minor resubdivision layout to show how many lots the land could realistically support.
"We do not want to put six places in there," Cibil Humphre said, describing the family's plan to keep one house for the existing son, to place their daughter in the back, and to add two small rentals for income. Commissioners repeatedly told the Humphres a map showing setbacks and drainage would strengthen the application and recommended withdrawing the item to prepare that material.
On the record the applicant chose to withdraw the rezoning request and return with drawings at a future meeting; staff said the next zoning commission meeting is June 4. Commissioners noted that if the zoning change were denied and appealed to the parish council, a council denial would trigger a one-year waiting period to re-file, but that a denial at the zoning commission itself does not invoke the one-year rule.
