SUBPART D. SHREVEPORT METROPOLITAN PLANNING
§140.1. General purposes
It is the purpose and intent of this Sub-Part to authorize metropolitan planning in the City of Shreveport and its environs and to provide for the creation, organization, powers and duties of a metropolitan planning commission; for the regulation of the subdivision of land in the metropolitan planning area, as defined herein; for the making and adoption of an official map or maps to preserve the integrity of the major street plan and other plans by the regulation of buildings in mapped streets; for the making and adoption of a zoning plan and zoning ordinance or ordinances; for the adoption of ordinances prescribing minimum construction, health, and sanitation standards to prevent the spread of slums and to encourage and assist public and private agencies, corporations, and individuals in the rehabilitation and redevelopment of blighted areas; and for the adoption of other plans, ordinances, and measures to effectuate the purposes of this Sub-Part.
It is the intent of this Sub-Part to provide for the planning and the effectuation of plans for the orderly physical development of the metropolitan planning area as a whole. To this end provision is made for unified planning of the area within the City of Shreveport and environs; and, further, provision is made for joint or correlated action by the City Council of the City of Shreveport and the Police Jury of Caddo Parish in the adoption of ordinances or other measures to effectuate such unified plans.
Acts 1962, No. 52, §1.
NOTE: See Acts 2004, No. 362, §3, relative to repeal of Acts 1975, No. 573, Acts 1978, No. 554, Acts 1980, No. 411, Acts 1984, No. 162, and Acts 2003, No. 265.
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