Save the Horse Farm

SAVE THE HORSE FARM!


The most beautiful Green Space remaining in our city, the former UL Lafayette Horse Farm on Johnston Street, is presently scheduled for rezoning and commercial development. Unless the caring and creative citizens of Lafayette step forward immediately, one of the last remaining gems in our urban landscape will merge with the commercial blight of Johnston Street. We have now begun the dialogue concerning our community vision and how to achieve it.

As a group of concerned Lafayette citizens and UL students, we would like to encourage the Lafayette and UL communities participation in creating alternatives to the commercial development of the UL Horse
Farm, a tax-payer owned property. We would like to achieve consensus in a plan that would accomodate every party’s needs - UL, the surrounding neighborhoods, and the citizens of Lafayette.

In order to facilitate public participation in this process, we would like to extend an invitation to all community members, UL administration, city officials and UL students to attend a series of round-table discussions on these issues. These meetings will be held Thursday, weekly upstairs in the UL Union Laginappe Room at 5:30.

This is an opportunity for Lafayette citizens to create the city that we live in. We know what we want our city to look like - lets work together to make it happen.
WHAT YOU SHOULD DO

WRITE: a personal statement about the value of this Green Space to our community and mail to:

Zoning Commission, c/o Jim Parker
220 West Willow Street, Building B
Lafayette, LA 70502

EMAIL: jparker@lafayettegov.net

FAX : 291-8492

(NOTE: your comments will be given to commission members)

SHOW UP at the Zoning Commission meeting:
Monday, December 5th at 5 pm
at City Hall


SIGN THE PETITION

Please include your address on the petition to verify that the undersigned are from Lafayette! Names without addresses may not be counted in the final total!


CONTACT YOUR COUNCILMEN


RELATED NEWS ARTICLES

The Daily Advertiser : University to Sell Former Farm Site
The Daily Advertiser : UL Deal Includes Land Swap
The Advocate : ULL Offers Some Details of Land Deal
The Independent : Cold Shoulder
The Daily Advertiser: Students Fight to Save Green Acreage
The Independent : Suspect Swap
Ragin Pagin Sticky Post About the Horse Farm
The Daily Advertiser : UL Farm Supporters Meet to Oppose Development
The Advocate : Foes Discuss ULL Land Swap
The Independent: Horse Play


Community Meetings


ALL meetings are Thursdays at 5:30pm in the Lagniappe Room at the UL Union. The dates of the meetings are as follows:

October 27th
November 3rd
November 10th
November 17th
TUESDAY November 22nd
NOT November 24th (Thanksgiving)
December 1st

ALL meetings are open to the general public and the student body! Public participation is important!

If you would like to get involved or learn more, please contact
horsefarm@gmail.com.

GET “SAVE THE HORSE FARM” STUFF!

For T-Shirts, call Danica at (337)235-6149
For Yard Signs and Bumper Stickers, call EB at (337)781-9766

Get the word out! We appreciate your support.
















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Committees and Contact Information
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o Democracy
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Save the Horse Farm