The gist: This week, Milton residents packed the town’s civic center to vent frustrations over traffic, drainage and growth. Many of those problems didn’t happen overnight: They are the result of years of unchecked development that outpaced the parish’s willingness to regulate growth and fund solutions. Now, LCG is scrambling to tackle them.
Monique Boulet’s administration is struggling to catch up. Parishes with similar populations, like St. Tammany and Ascension, imposed growth regulations years ago, after their rural areas experienced huge population booms following Hurricane Katrina.
Lafayette’s rural areas saw a similar boom over the last 15 years. But regulations did not follow…