Dairy Queen seeks Lafayette permit

[Cajun Monkee]

Not to often that a business section news story gets to piggyback on the shtick of a local radio personality.

Creative, I like it.

PS I never fail to gawk at the multiple entity process required to approve new developments.

Yeah, it's not like new development doesn't impact drainage, or traffic, or utilities, or sewerage, or school enrollment, or fire protection, or park usage.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Yeah, it's not like new development doesn't impact drainage, or traffic, or utilities, or sewerage, or school enrollment, or fire protection, or park usage.

You right it does, but I put most of it in the zone as the sexual harassment classes I was forced to attend along with every employee at my company. The company got it's inoculation for doing preventive classes and reducing settlements. The little instructor got a six figure income, the employees all fell further behind in their work.

Point is most of these studies and approvals are nothing more than an excuse to have the positions justified. The real big developments will be studied to death, and the little ones approved almost at will.

Yea, yea, I know we need them all but almost all are nothing more than an exercise in bureaucracy maintenance. After all we have a major called city planning or some such thing, we need jobs for those graduates.

[HelmutVII]

Not to often that a business section news story gets to piggyback on the shtick of a local radio personality.

Creative, I like it.

PS I never fail to gawk at the multiple entity process required to approve new developments.

This appears to be more of a building code review than a development review. Building code review is fairly routine as long as the people designing the building know the codes. The building codes we follow here are nationally recognized codes and they are commonly used. They are reviewing, building structure, plumbing systems, air conditioning systems, electrical systems, and Parking layouts. The Fire Marshal (a totally different reviewing agency) will review life safety code and ADA compliance.

When you go into any building you should have a certain expectation that the building is safe and that if anything happens (like a fire) you have a reasonable expectation that you can get out alive. Also, if you go into a restaurant, you should be able to consume the food and not get sick.

A fast food place like DQ is probably a cookie cutter type of building and should have little or no problems meeting the code. Obviously, the larger the building the more complex the issues.

[CajunDreDog]

A fast food place like DQ is probably a cookie cutter type of building and should have little or no problems meeting the code. Obviously, the larger the building the more complex the issues.

It is cookie cutter. The one that they "built" in BR recently went up fairly quickly.

[RedCajun]

Well, thanks for the heads up. Now I know not to waste my time giving Stevie P's show another try because all he will be running his pie hole about is Dairy Quees, blizzards, etc

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[Cajun Monkee]

You right it does, but I put most of it in the zone as the sexual harassment classes I was forced to attend along with every employee at my company. The company got it's inoculation for doing preventive classes and reducing settlements. The little instructor got a six figure income, the employees all fell further behind in their work.

Point is most of these studies and approvals are nothing more than an excuse to have the positions justified. The real big developments will be studied to death, and the little ones approved almost at will.

Yea, yea, I know we need them all but almost all are nothing more than an exercise in bureaucracy maintenance. After all we have a major called city planning or some such thing, we need jobs for those graduates.

And we'll have to disagree.

Look at the Chik-Fil-A on Ambassador and the traffic problems it is causing.

Talk to older residential developments along Verot School Rd. that experience flooding due to new developments.

Where Whole Foods wanted to locate between Academy and the river was an absolutely terrible idea. And they wanted their own traffic light.

Failure to plan for adequate bridges across the river has impacted emergency services response time.

Indiscriminate construction of mobile home parks around the Parish impacts LPSS's ability to appropriately program for student populations.

Lack of attention to cow poop and pesticides from farms has pretty much rendered the Vermilion River a cess pool.

The funny thing is, when a trash transfer facility was approved as a result of a LACK of regulation, most people in Lafayette hit the roof.

Sorry for the threadjack. I for one will continue to frequent Sonic for a Ragin Cajun burger.

[Boomer]

Well Youngsville has 2 new developments going up by the Daigle guy and his daughter (the guy that did River Ranch and the PONDS?)-----hell it might get bigger than Lafayette!!!

[HelmutVII]

It is cookie cutter. The one that they "built" in BR recently went up fairly quickly.

Smoothie King buildings are manufactured in modules and shipped to the project site. Now that is cookie cutter.

[cajunhawk]

Well Youngsville has 2 new developments going up by the Daigle guy and his daughter (the guy that did River Ranch and the PONDS?)-----hell it might get bigger than Lafayette!!!

Not with their foreclosure rate...

[HelmutVII]

And we'll have to disagree.

Look at the Chik-Fil-A on Ambassador and the traffic problems it is causing.

Talk to older residential developments along Verot School Rd. that experience flooding due to new developments.

Where Whole Foods wanted to locate between Academy and the river was an absolutely terrible idea. And they wanted their own traffic light.

Failure to plan for adequate bridges across the river has impacted emergency services response time.

Indiscriminate construction of mobile home parks around the Parish impacts LPSS's ability to appropriately program for student populations.

Lack of attention to cow poop and pesticides from farms has pretty much rendered the Vermilion River a cess pool.

The funny thing is, when a trash transfer facility was approved as a result of a LACK of regulation, most people in Lafayette hit the roof.

Sorry for the threadjack. I for one will continue to frequent Sonic for a Ragin Cajun burger.

At one time they wanted to put a 10 screen theater on Ambassador Caffery parkway where Lowes is now. The residents of Fernwood got all up in arms about the development and the traffic problems the theater was going to cause. As a result the conditions for development required that they improve the intersection of Ambassador Caffery and Robley Drive. That condition pushed the numbers to a point where the project did not make economic sense. They built at another location on the mall property. Lowes comes in with a plan to develop the same site. They placed the same condition to improve the Robley/Caffery intersection. Lowes said "sure no problem". So now there is a Lowes next to Fernwood instead of a Theater. I don't think the residents of Fernwood anticipated that circumstance. The theater is closed and Lowes is open. It's all a matter of money and what the development can (or cannot) support.

[Cajun Monkee]

At one time they wanted to put a 10 screen theater on Ambassador Caffery parkway where Lowes is now. The residents of Fernwood got all up in arms about the development and the traffic problems the theater was going to cause. As a result the conditions for development required that they improve the intersection of Ambassador Caffery and Robley Drive. That condition pushed the numbers to a point where the project did not make economic sense. They built at another location on the mall property. Lowes comes in with a plan to develop the same site. They placed the same condition to improve the Robley/Caffery intersection. Lowes said "sure no problem". So now there is a Lowes next to Fernwood instead of a Theater. I don't think the residents of Fernwood anticipated that circumstance. The theater is closed and Lowes is open. It's all a matter of money and what the development can (or cannot) support.

That's why you see right turn lanes on Caffery accessing the parking lot at Lowe's and a storm water detention facility. Without the right turn lane, you'd have additional demand on Caffery (the outside travel lane would also be a right turn lane). Without the detention facility, you'd have Fernewood and the area around that big parking lot experiencing an increase in flooding.

[HelmutVII]

That's why you see right turn lanes on Caffery accessing the parking lot at Lowe's and a storm water detention facility. Without the right turn lane, you'd have additional demand on Caffery (the outside travel lane would also be a right turn lane). Without the detention facility, you'd have Fernewood and the area around that big parking lot experiencing an increase in flooding.

Exactly, I'm not saying they were not needed, all I'm saying is that the Fernwood residents did not want a theater and they got a Lowes. Which one would you rather have? The economics of Lowes was different than the economics for a theater so the conditions for development did not change Lowes decision to develop. The retention pond was going to happen no matter what was developed. (Believe me I know about that, I designed three ponds this week alone.)