| Lafourche Parish Goals |
| Environmental |
- Within the next six months, The Bayou Lafourche Freshwater District will construct a weir in Bayou Lafourche as a preventive measure to saltwater intrusion.
- Within the next three years improve, maintain, and sustain water quality through cooperative project implementation that will mitigate public health hazards and offset increased salinity due to saltwater intrusion.
- Within the next five years, construct a parish wide sewage treatment system that also provides beneficial re-nourishment to the marshlands.
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| Housing and Community Development |
- Improve housing safety by providing financial assistance to relocate, retrofit, or elevate existing homes.
- In the next 24 months establish plans to guide land use and integrate land development regulation for the parish.
- Over the next five years all new homes within the parish will meet the new IRC 2000 and FEMA building code requirements.
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| Economic and Workforce Development |
- Construct a communications network within the next 24 months that is safe, secure and provides high speed voice and data communications for emergency response, intelligent transportation, and the community development needs of the parish.
- Within the next year, establish and expedite partnering between public and private enterprise to diversify the economy through strengthening small business and encouraging new small business starts in the parish.
- Establish a focused marketing strategy over the next 18 months to attract small business organizations to the parish, corresponding with completion of storm-related repairs to the civic center.
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| Public Health and Healthcare |
- Provide health care services, facilities and workforce training in order to support a health care system that meets the changed needs resulting from hurricanes Katrina and Rita, by 2012.
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| Transportation and Infrastructure |
- Undertake immediate actions to relocate key heliport facilities to the airfield within the levee system.
- Within the next five years improve access to oil/gas platforms and other support industries in the Gulf of Mexico through upgrades to the air/heliport facilities and ground access roadways to the Galliano Airport .
- Within the next six months improve the communications capabilities for emergency response professionals to improve traffic management, provide a coordinated inter-agency base of operations, and better inform the public of changing highway conditions.
- Within the next five years establish and maintain direct and reliable access to Port Fourchon for intermodal connectivity and hurricane evacuation purposes.
- Within the next 5 to 8 years upgrade US 90 to interstate standards (proposed I-49) in order to increase the capacity and safety of travel on this facility as well as meet the projected travel demands for this corridor, especially during the times of evacuation.
Housing and Community Redevelopment
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| Education |
- Create a transitional education program that moves individuals and families from illiteracy through high school to college using community and faith-based support.
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| Public Safety |
- As a component of an updated emergency response plan and the DMA 2000 Hazard Mitigation Plan, undertake a classification program to document critical facilities of the Lafourche Parish for pre-disaster conditions.
- As a component of an updated emergency response plan, develop a series of training programs focusing on family/residential emergency preparedness.
- Within the next twelve months revise and update Lafourche Parish’s Emergency Operations Plan in compliance with National Incident Management Systems (NIMS) mandate to incorporate ‘lessons learned’ from the 2005 emergency responses and strengthen the Parish’s emergency organization through the planning process.
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| Human Services |
- During the development of the emergency response plan provide the emergency agencies with a central database of the location of people with special needs to expedite evacuation during disaster situations.
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| Flood Protection and Coastal Restoration |
- Within the next five years establish a system that will restore barrier islands, marsh wetlands, and natural ridges along the coast.
- Within the next five years ensure protection of Port Fourchon, communities outside the South Lafourche levees and LA 1 (the access road to the Port and Grand Isle) from repetitive flooding and storm surge impacts.
- Within the next five years establish a system that will reduce storm surge impacts on natural systems, slowing coastal land and habitat loss and resulting impacts on wildlife and fisheries.
- Within the next five years complete a hurricane protection and comprehensive flood protection system for south Louisiana . Fifteen miles of the seventy-two mile Morganza to the Gulf system will be in Lafourche Parish.
- Complete plans and implement construction of local levee improvements, including (1) raising the levees to a uniform height of seven and a half feet, (2) canal bank stabilization, (3) installation of bayou-canal closure structures.
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