Client:
City of Central
Mayor Mac Watts
Central, LA 70818
(225) 261-0653

With the creation of a new city, City of Central leaders decided they needed a collective vision and a positive approach to create a Community Master Plan that would incorporate existing assets and influences with the community’s visions for future growth to shape its future. Moore Planning Group, LLC. (MPG) was selected to provide guidance and implementation strategies that provides a proactive posture and framework for growth management decisions.

MPG’s planning expertise assisted the City to develop a working document leaders and citizens can use to help guide positive growth, catalyze sustainable economic development, and promote quality of life improvements by fulfilling the following needs:

1. Identify the prevailing natural/human/infrastructure/land use/economic development needs of the community to balance growth development with quality of life.
2. Gather ideas, goals, visions, and strategies for positive growth.
3. Establish priorities and schedules for active implementation.
4. Concentrate energy and resources toward accomplishing fair and positive change for all.
5. Identify potential funding opportunities to accomplish the primary objectives.

The first step was to develop a GIS Land Use Suitability Analysis and Overlay Development Plan that incorporated the community input which identified the need to protect the natural resources, maintaining the rural character, define a community town center, ensuring quality development and economic development opportunities, and the continued enhancement of high quality education opportunities.

“Master Planning for the future is a tremendous undertaking. The Overlay Development Plan provides the baseline of where we are today with a glimpse of where we can be in the future.”

David Barrow
City of Central Planning and Zoning Administrator