Columns & Opinions

Downtown Shreveport is a focus of an ordinance introduced at the Shreveport City Council meeting on Tuesday, June 11. It was the first reading, and it cannot be adopted prior to June 25. The ordinance is headed to the council’s Property Standards Committee chaired by Councilwoman Tabatha Taylor. Council members Ursula Bowman, Gary Brooks and council president Alan Jackson are on the committee.

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Bossier City Charter Commission voted four years to three nays to include term limits in the recommended changes that will be submitted to the vote of the people at an election in December 2024. The version of term limits approved accommodates key issues that were being addressed in the Bossier Term Limits Coalition petitions for mayoral and council terms with an added amendment changing the nature of the election of at-large council positions.

The Great Expectations 2030 Master Plan was adopted on December 1, 2020. The master plan has guided development in Shreveport including the adoption of the Unified Development Code (UDC).

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I recently returned from a week-long trip to Germany which centered around an Army reunion in Fulda, Germany, along the former East-West German border. A lot has changed in the 32 years since I was stationed there. Sadly, after three decades of post-Cold War peace, Europe is, again, faced with the threat of kinetic conflict with Russia. And they are not prepared.

The 'bad' is that more empty lots in the city with reduction of ad valorem tax base and less housing for residents.