Lafayette Development Code News Today

Lafayette may be close to leaving behind what’s been called the “wild, wild west” of Airbnbs, but consensus on the rules seems out of reach.

I never realized just how many halfway houses or sober living facilities were in Lafayette Parish.

I never realized just how many halfway houses or sober living facilities were in Lafayette Parish.

I never realized just how many halfway houses or sober living facilities were in Lafayette Parish.

In what could be a busy pair of meetings this week, Lafayette’s councils are set to weigh more funding for a new fire station plus other local issues.

In a win for short-term rental operators in Lafayette, the city’s Board of Zoning Adjustment upheld a decision greenlighting Airbnbs and other short-term rentals Thursday.  The Lafayette Development Code does not directly address short-term rental operations in single family-zoned areas, so the board’s decision leaves them up to the interpretation of Mayor-President Josh Guillory’s Development and Planning Director Mary Sliman.  Sliman, who took over as director in May 2020, has allowed...

Lafayette’s Board of Zoning Adjustment is set to decide next week whether local zoning rules permit short-term rentals, like Airbnb, to operate in residential neighborhoods.  The potentially fateful decision could impact some 300 Airbnb and other short-term rental listings in the city of Lafayette, based on data from AirDNA, a short-term rental market research company. The board’s ruling, planned for April 8, could firmly define for the first time whether those rentals can be operated in a...

LCG creates new bureau to handle Lafayette development code violations KATC and last updated 2021-03-12 12:11:47-05 Lafayette Consolidated Government (LCG) announced the creation of a new bureau to expedite the processing of development code violations for the city and parish. The new Administrative Adjudication Bureau will handle code enforcement citations which were previously addressed at Lafayette City Court. LCG says that rather than bogging down the court system, the Development and Pla...

Three names topped the list of appointments at Tuesday’s Lafayette city and parish council meetings as a new administrative judge was sworn in and two people were appointed to Lafayette’s new Protect the City Committee.  Lafayette Mayor-President Josh Guillory announced the appointment of a new administrative judge at Tuesday’s meeting, appointing former Democratic 15th Judicial District Judge Candidate Travis Broussard to lead Lafayette Consolidated Government’s new Administrative Adj...