§ 33:140.50.10 — Master plan

Louisiana § 33:140.50.10

• Jurisdiction: Louisiana
• Title 33: Municipalities and Parishes

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§140.50.10. Master plan
A. It is the function and duty of the commission to make and recommend to the town
council and the police jury a master plan for the physical development of the municipality,
including any areas outside of its boundaries which, in the commission's judgment, bear
relation to the planning of the municipality.
B. The master plan, consisting of maps, plats, charts, and descriptive and explanatory
matter, shall show the commission's recommendations for such physical development, and
may include, among other things, the general location, character and extent of streets,
bridges, viaducts, parks, parkways, waterway and waterfront developments, playgrounds,
airports, and other public ways, grounds, places, and spaces; the general location of public
buildings, schools and school sites, and other public property; the general location and extent
of public utilities and terminals, whether publicly or privately owned, for water, power, heat,
light, sanitation, transportation, communication, and other purposes; the acceptance,
widening, removal, extensions, relocation, narrowing, vacation, abandonment, or change of
use of any of the foregoing public ways, grounds, places, spaces, buildings, properties,
utilities, or terminals; a zoning plan for the regulation of the height, area, bulk, location, and
use of private and public structures and premises, and of population density; the general
location, character, layout, the extent of the neighborhood units and communities or groups
of neighborhood units, of neighborhood and community centers; and of the general character,
extent, and layout of the replanning of blighted districts and slum areas.
C. The commission may, from time to time, recommend amendments to extend or
add to the plan.

Legislative History

Acts 2019, No. 75, §1.