§ 25-275. Same—Goal 3: Implement orderly development and redevelopment consistent with the parish's social, economic, physical, and natural environments.

Objective 3.1: Adopt and maintain levels of service that ensure access to recreation, libraries, and other public facilities by all residents of Jefferson Parish.

Policy 3.1.1: Facilitate access to parks and community facilities by a variety of transportation modes.

Policy 3.1.2: Strategically locate public facilities and parks to serve all neighborhoods in Jefferson Parish.

Policy 3.1.3: Reinvest in aging facilities to improve their usefulness and appearance.

Policy 3.1.4: Design and construct new community facilities to have flexible functions to ensure adaptability to the changing needs of the community.

Objective 3.2: Improve and expand public infrastructure and services to existing and developing areas of the parish.

Policy 3.2.1: Extend and improve public facilities into areas with an existing need or into areas where the timing for development is appropriate.

Policy 3.2.2: Ensure that development bears an equitable share of and responsibility for the cost of public services and facilities for on-site water, wastewater, storm-water, street, sidewalk and street lighting improvements. On-site street improvements include those required to provide safe and adequate ingress and egress for development. Responsibility for off-site improvements will be determined at the time of development based on the costs of the improvements and the benefits of development to the parish.

Policy 3.2.3: Ensure that public facilities comply with all parish, state, and federal environmental regulations and other standards.

Policy 3.2.4: Coordinate all parish plans to assure they are mutually supportive and comply with the comprehensive plan.

Policy 3.2.5: Continue to protect existing and planned parish rights-of-way and easements from development to ensure efficient improvements and expansion of public infrastructure. Where new rights-of-way are proposed through private property, the parish shall acquire the property within a reasonable period of time to minimize interference with private development proposals.

Policy 3.2.6: Align the capital improvements budget with adopted Comprehensive Plan of Jefferson Parish.

Objective 3.3: Increase public access to public facilities along Lake Pontchartrain and other water resources through appropriate water-oriented development in Jefferson Parish.

Policy 3.3.1: Plan for, develop, and enhance access to riverfront and lakefront parks, including prospective beaches throughout Jefferson Parish.

Policy 3.3.2: Implement open space/public access plans to provide public access to Parish scenic water bodies, including the Lake Pontchartrain shoreline, Lake Salvador, Lake Catouatche, and the Mississippi River and ensure coordinated, functional parks and transportation systems that are compatible with existing development.

Policy 3.3.3: Help to coordinate development along the Mississippi River that provides safe public access to the river and does not interfere with industrial uses.

Policy 3.3.4: Ensure that marinas and boat yards are designed to protect water quality as well as the aesthetic and recreational value of the parish's waterways.

Policy 3.3.5: Preserve access to public facilities and views of water-based amenities for all residents and visitors of the community.

Policy 3.3.6: Protect water-based industrial development including but not limited to the Harvey Canal and the West Bank of the Mississippi River from incompatible encroachment of other uses.

Policy 3.3.7: Provide a coordinated system of pedestrian trails through appropriate public access along canal levees and other drainage features.

Policy 3.3.8: All public access shall be provided via public properties and facilities only and private property and private property rights shall be respected and protected at all times.

(Ord. No. 21939, § 1, 8-6-03; Ord. No. 22140, § 4, 3-17-04; Ord. No. 22997, § 1, 2-28-07)