What better time to ensure that Ambassador South within the city limits of Lafayette doesn't become an eyesore like Johnston Street?
Here's to thinking ahead: Traffic is coursing along the new(ish) stretch of Ambassador Caffery South from Verot School Road to U.S. 90, but development along that stretch of roadway is only beginning to materialize. What better time to ensure that Ambassador South within the city limits of Lafayette doesn't become an eyesore like Johnston Street?
A resolution before the City-Parish Council on Tuesday sponsored by District 7 Councilman Don Bertrand, asks the Planning, Zoning and Codes Department to come up with a plan for a so-called "overlay district" that would lead to wide bike/pedestrian paths, landscaping and lighting - features that would require business locating along Ambassador South to build 55 feet or more from the roadway to make room for the aesthetic accommodations.
As The Advocate reports, there's no money in the budget for such extravagances right now, but creating the overlay district - it would run from the Vermilion River Bridge to Bonin Road - will preserve the buffer along Ambassador South for future improvements. "You have to do it now," Bertrand tells the daily.
Read more here. To read the resolution before the council, click here.