A plan to turn the former location of the Handy Stop Market on Jefferson Street into a condo building can move forward after a district judge denied an appeal of an underlying zoning decision brought by the Downtown Development Authority.
15th Judicial District Court Judge John Trahan ruled in favor of Lafayette Consolidated Government on Tuesday morning, dismissing DDA’s appeal on the basis of standing.
Last year, Lafayette’s zoning board OK’d the project to move forward as imagined by developer Cliff Guidry, despite the plan not conforming to Downtown codes…