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Flood Protection and Coastal Restoration

Coast 2050 Feasibility Study (1998)

A strategic plan developed in 1998 by the State of Louisiana and several federal agencies. The plan outlines 77 ecosystem restoration strategies that are needed to protect and sustain the remainder of Louisiana’s coastal wetlands.

Consensus building
maximizing strategies
considered to be both technically sound
and publicly acceptable. A series of public
scoping meetings, regional team
meetings and other gatherings achieved
consensus concerning the best strategies
to implement on the coast

Louisiana Department of Natural Resources and Coastal Zone Management Authority

Louisiana Coastal Wetlands Conservation and Restoration Task Force and the Wetlands Conservation and Restoration Authority.

• Chenier Plain Freshwater Mgmt & Allocation Reasses
• Coastal Use Permit (CUP) Enhancements
• Freshwater Bayou Bank Stabilization
• Marsh Restoration and Erosion Control w/ Terracing
• Restoring Marsh by Filling Abandoned Canals
• Restoring Natural Drainage from Freshwater Basins
• Rockefeller Refuge Gulf Shoreline Stabilization

Louisiana Coastal Area (LCA)  Ecosystem Restoration Study (2004)

Initiated in 2001 as the blueprint for implementing the Coast 2050 restoration strategies into a series of large-scale projects for coastal Louisiana.

Cost benefit

Study was authorized through Resolutions of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate Committees on Public Works, 19 April 1967 and 19 October 1967. Authorization granted in May 1999 by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Headquarters for the LCA Feasibility Study, based on the Louisiana Coastal Area Authority of 1967.

U.S. Army Corp of Engineers and the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources

• Chenier Plain Freshwater Mgmt & Allocation Reasses
• Coastal Use Permit (CUP) Enhancements
• Freshwater Bayou Bank Stabilization
• Marsh Restoration and Erosion Control w/ Terracing
• Restoring Marsh by Filling Abandoned Canals
• Restoring Natural Drainage from Freshwater Basins
• Rockefeller Refuge Gulf Shoreline Stabilization

Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy 2002

Description and assessment of existing conditions, needs assessment and objectives for Vermilion Parish

Comprehensive Regional Economic Development Analysis

Economic Development Administration Austin Regional Office

Acadiana Regional Development District, Lafayette, Louisiana

• Restoring Marsh by Filling Abandoned Canals
• Restoring Natural Drainage from Freshwater Basins
• Rockefeller Refuge Gulf Shoreline Stabilization
• Chenier Plain Freshwater Mgmt & Allocation Reasses
• Coastal Use Permit (CUP) Enhancements
• Freshwater Bayou Bank Stabilization
• Marsh Restoration and Erosion Control w/ Terracing

Vermilion Parish Hazard Mitigation Plan (8/2005)

An all hazards, Parish-wide approach to disaster damage reduction.

FEMA approved process to identify and assess all potential hazards

State of Louisiana

Vermilion Parish Office of Emergency Preparedness

• Louisiana Coastal Protection & Restoration

Housing and Community Design

Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy 2002

Description and assessment of existing conditions, includes needs assessment and objectives for Vermilion Parish

Comprehensive Regional Economic Development Analysis

Economic Development Administration Austin Regional Office

Acadiana Regional Development District, Lafayette, Louisiana

• Comprehensive Master Plan and Zoning Code

Vermilion Vision 2014: Vermilion Parish Economic Development District Strategic Plan 2004-2014

Strategic issues and economic objectives for parish

Study based on SWOT analysis of Vermilion Parish Economic Development Report (2003)

Vermilion Parish Police Jury

Vermilion Parish Economic Development District

• Comprehensive Master Plan and Zoning Code

Transportation and Infrastructure

Vermilion Parish Hazard Mitigation Plan (8/2005)

An all hazards, Parish-wide approach to disaster damage reduction.

FEMA approved process to identify and assess all potential hazards

State of Louisiana, DHS - FEMA

Vermilion Parish Office of Emergency Preparedness

Vermilion Parish State Transportation Improvement Plan Fiscal Year 2006-2007

LA DOT road improvement projects

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LADOT

LADOT

Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy 2002

Description and assessment of existing conditions, needs assessment and objectives for Vermilion Parish

Comprehensive Regional Economic Development Analysis

Economic Development Administration Austin Regional Office

Acadiana Regional Development District, Lafayette, Louisiana

• Delcambre Water Treatment Plant Improvements
• Erath Water Treatment Plant Improvements
• Gueydan Drainage Project
• Magnolia Water District WTP Improvements
• North Vermilion Wastewater Regionalization
• Vermilion Parish Water and Wastewater Master Plan
• Water District No. 1 WTP Improvements

Education

Vermilion Parish School Board Capital Improvement Program Status Report February, 2001

PowerPoint presentation, reviews the capital improvements made in the past ten years suggested by the “Vermilion Parish School Board Capital Improvement Plan, 1992”

Vermilion Parish School Board

Vermilion Parish School Board

• Schools Free From Floods

Vermilion Parish School Board Capital Improvement Plan, 1992

Compiled in 1992, 20 Year Plan, Architects/Staff Developed Program, Board Approved $37,000,000 program

Vermilion Parish School Board

Vermilion Parish School Board

• Schools Free From Floods

Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy 2002

Description and assessment of existing conditions, needs assessment and objectives for Vermilion Parish

Comprehensive Regional Economic Development Analysis

Economic Development Administration Austin Regional Office

Acadiana Regional Development District, Lafayette, Louisiana

• Mobile Library Service for All

Public Health and Healthcare

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Public Safety

Vermilion Parish Hazard Mitigation Plan (8/2005)

An all hazards, Parish-wide approach to disaster damage reduction.

FEMA approved process to identify and assess all potential hazards

State of Louisiana

Vermilion Parish Office of Emergency Preparedness

• Communications Shelter
• Comprehensive Planning and Zoning Code

Economic and Workforce Development

Vermilion Parish Economic Development Report (11/2003)

Survey Results, preliminary SWOT Analysis. Survey respondents help to prioritize “action items”, i.e. quality of roads and highways, parish government quality, parish government assistance, access to skilled labor, etc.

SWOT, and Survey of participants of words and phrases describing various aspects of the Vermilion Parish economy and government

Vermilion Parish Police Jury

University of Louisiana at Lafayette, B.I. Moody III College of Business Administration MBA Program

Vermilion Vision 2014: Vermilion Parish Economic Development District Strategic Plan 2004-2014

Strategic issues and economic objectives for parish

Study based on SWOT analysis of Vermilion Parish Economic Development Report (2003)

Vermilion Parish Police Jury

Vermilion Parish Economic Development District

• Increase Capacity for Local Government Leadership
• Vocational Training Needs Assessment
• Form Parishwide Economic Development Organization
• Tourism Development

Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy 2002

Description and assessment of existing conditions, needs assessment and objectives for Vermilion Parish

Comprehensive Regional Economic Development Analysis

Economic Development Administration Austin Regional Office

Acadiana Regional Development District, Lafayette, Louisiana

• Increase Capacity for Local Government Leadership
• Form Parishwide Economic Development Organization
• Vocational Training Needs Assessment
• Tourism Development

Duany Plater-Zyberk, Vermilion Parish Study

Study based on an intensive week long charette

Charette with public participation, community leaders and developers

Duany Plater-Zyberk

Louisiana Speaks, LRA

• Feasibility Study for Introduction of Kenaf Crop
• Feasibility Study for Introduction of Switchgrass
• Twin Parish Port Master Plan
• Form Parishwide Economic Development Organization
• Increase Capacity for Local Government Leadership