Here is a selection of items on the agendas for this week’s meetings of the City and Parish councils. To see the full agendas, check out the links below:
Parish Council
Public Hearing
Reassessments. Oilfield services company Frank’s International, now operating under the Expro name following a merger, is again applying to have its tax assessments revisited, with hopes of lowering the assessed value of the properties and thus the property tax owed to the parish. The company has applied for reassessment of 15 different properties around the parish, including its main location on East Verot School Road. That property and its assets were assessed at over $50 million. The company made the same requests last year, pointing to the declining relevance and profitability of the oil industry in Louisiana as justification but was unsuccessful. Along with Frank’s requests, another oil and gas company, Superior Energy Services, is requesting to cut the assessed value of a $8.8 million property nearly in half.
Final Adoption
Animal shelter aid. Between two ordinances, the parish is set to pass along $50,000 in funds from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) to Lafayette Animal Shelter and Care Center in order to host free adoption days, cage donations and transporting animals to South Carolina for adoption there. The funds from the New York-based nonprofit’s 2025 Rescue Grant campaign help run six free adoption days for the shelter, and provide anyone who adopts a dog during those events with a free dog crate.
Introduction
No Significant Items
City Council
Reports
STR update. Council Chair Kenneth Boudreaux is requesting a report to the council on the city’s short-term rental ban, which is currently being enforced in residential areas. LCG has been enforcing the ban and restrictions for nearly a year now, and is currently being sued in federal court by the owners of a former short-term rental in the Saints Streets. Enforcing the ordinance has been difficult, a subject that has come up repeatedly during council meetings over the past year.
Final Adoption
Northside rezoning. Lafayette looks set to rezone over 30 addresses sandwiched between Mudd Avenue and E. Simcoe Street. The rezoning is part of a larger strategy to update the city’s development code to better reflect the actual uses of properties. Multiple properties, including the Circle K gas station on Mudd Avenue, have opted out of the rezoning.
The request, led by LCG, will switch the properties along E Simcoe Street over to a more flexible type of commercial zoning. The properties along Louisiana and Mudd avenues, originally zoned for single-family housing, will become a mixed-use neighborhood, allowing some storefronts like convenience stores. Many Northside neighborhoods lack access to resources such as grocery stores or convenience stores well-stocked with food products. The final section between Park and Mudd avenues is being rezoned to become a residential zone that allows apartments and duplexes, not just single-family homes. The properties included in the rezoning previously fell into either the strictest commercial or single-family residential zones.
Renaud rezoning. LCG staff recommends rezoning the 400 Block of Renaud Drive from an industrial, strictly commercial zone to a mixed residential and commercial zone. The rezoning will allow a single-family home to be built on the property, which no longer has an industrial use. The Lafayette Zoning Commission recommends the rezoning, and LCG staff agrees. The property is directly adjacent to other single-family homes and sits on the edge of city limits…