The document summarizes discussions from a meeting of the West Feliciana Parish Comprehensive Plan Support Committee. Key points included reviewing the project timeline and small area workshop results for the community of Solitude. The committee discussed housing, commercial areas, and transportation strategies for Solitude based on community feedback. They also reviewed comprehensive plan policies and comments in preparation for briefing other decision makers the following month.

1. West Feliciana Parish Comprehensive Plan Implementing the Community’s Vision Support Committee – May 22, 2008

3. Project Timeline

4. The Workshop Results

5. Workshop Analysis All 20 maps were converted to computerized scenarios

15. Traditional highway commercial: many curb cuts onto highway, limited housing type options, housing is far from retail and not walkable

16. Alternative “Town Center” Design: uses much less land, variety of housing types, housing close to main street, walkable

21. Highway standards to protect rural character: Large tree buffers and berms

22. Highway standards to protect rural character: Limit intersections onto highway (Access Management)

23. Highway standards to protect rural character: Allow for limited retail frontage, screen parking and other buildings with roadside tree buffer to preserve rural highway character

24. Main Street standards: Storefronts face main street, most parking in the rear with additional short-term on-street parking, wide walkable sidewalks, street trees

25. Residential Street standards Houses oriented towards the street to promote community, sidewalks on at least one side to allow for walking, street trees or grassy landscape strip buffering sidewalk from roadway

26. Traditional highway commercial with adjacent residential: - many curb cuts, must use car to access commercial, limited housing types

27. Alternative “Town Center” design: - limited curb cuts, rural highway character preserved, walkable main street, residential connected to commercial, variety of housing types

33. West Feliciana Parish

34. New John Audubon Bridge

35. Villages

36. Rural/Agriculture Areas

38. The boundaries of Star Hill-Independence established based on watersheds and sewer design

39. Waste Water Treatment Plant and Discharge line to the Mississippi: Gravity flow along Grants Bayou

40. Interceptor lines follow the low lying forks of the Grants Bayou (east and west forks)

41. Pump Stations and Pressure Lines are required to traverse the high points between watersheds

42. A Water Tower should be located at a high point in the service area

43. The Audubon Bridge and new Zachary Taylor Parkway alignment will impact the area The Zachary Taylor route is for illustrative purposes only – not an alignment

45. The Plan Map: Three primary commercial nodes Access management Internal main street High connectivity Integrated parklands

46. Design workshops for Star Hill-Independence indicated a desire for an integrated town center area with a variety of housing types, destinations and services

48. Model Sustainable Development

49. River Ranch

50. Environmental Map

51. Land Use

52. Current Zoning

53. Vision Map

54. Plan Map

56. Clustered Development: Town Center and Villages Most land still preserved for rural uses: agriculture, forestry and hunting