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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 Airbnbs and other short-term rentals to operate in single-family residential zones because they are...

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 areas zoned for single-family residential use, which cover many of the city’s neighborhoods.  Inst...

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 Planning Department will now send citations to AAB Judge Travis Broussard who will manage violations in...

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 Adjudication Bureau.  Broussard, who is a partner at Durio, McGoffin, Stagg and Ackerman in Lafayette ...