The New Iberia City Council voted to annex property from the parish into city limits at Tuesday’s meeting, a move that Mayor Freddie DeCourt said will be critical for an unnamed development to come to the city.
The ordinance, which was adopted unanimously, takes five pieces of land along west U.S. 90 and puts them as part of the city.
“They are zoned in the parish right now,” legal counsel Jeff Simon said. “We got all the residents’ signatures on our petition, no one is being forced.”…