re: Livingston Parish establishes year long development moratorium

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There hasn't been a large lot sub-division built in 20 years. All small lots stacked on each other that end up looking like trailer parks.

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Large lot subdivisions means less impermeable surface area per square mile and fewer bedrooms per square mile. That means less runoff during heavy rain and fewer cars on the road.

Livingston should absolutely be allowing large lot subdivisions with 1 acre lot minimums. They can absorb the additional demands those developments place on infrastructure. In fact it's completely reasonable to restrict entire swaths of the parish to that maximum density and lot size.

The problem is that they've been letting high density, narrow lot subdivisions where driveways and houses cover a huge proportion of the available land. There's less room for runoff and more demand for road capacity, fire, police, and schools per square mile.