Choices: Plan for growth or react to it

With or without a city plan for how to handle it, spillover from the LGN-fueled boom in Calcasium Parish is coming Eunice’s way.
The Economic Development Committee thinks the city having a master plan for how it wants to handle that and any other growth is better than just having it happen haphazard.
Committee chairman Don Reber and member Launey Griffith reviewed forecasts of what is about to happen, and in some cases is already happening, preparatory to asking about 30 persons on hand at Monday morning’s discussion for assistance in drumming up support for a master plan’s development.
Griffith said a master plan would provide instruction and guidance as the city develops.
“This is an opportunity that might not come again,” he said, in discussion projections for Eunice’s sharing in in the $67 billion boom forecast in the Calcasiu area.
“We need your help in getting the entire city involved in creating a plan” Reber told those gathered.
He noted that a major hurdle will be deciding how best to pay for having a plan developed.
“What do we want? How do we pay for it?” he asked.
Answering those questions will be necessary before the committee moves forward with asking consultants for proposals for creating the plan.
Reber mentioned such things as the city’s heritage, infrastructure, education, transportation and housing as areas for inclusion in a plan’s development.