Booming Livingston Parish grapples with development concerns 

    SUIT SETTLED: In August, Livingston Parish officials and the developer of a planned 2,000-lot subdivision near Denham Springs settled a zoning lawsuit, smoothing the way for construction to go forward while imposing some limits favored by opponents of the new neighborhood. (Don Kadair)

    Livingston Parish was once a sleepy, mostly rural parish that a little over 70,000 people called home, and everyone had to go into Baton Rouge for health care, restaurants or retail.


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