Good afternoon.

Welcome to today's Metropolitan Council zoning meeting on Wednesday, June 17, 2026.

We'll officially call this meeting to order.

Justin, do we have a quorum?

We have a quorum.

All right, Council members.

Um, there has been a request to move items two and three to take them together before we get to item one.

And so we're going to go straight to item two at this time.

Um, item number two, future EBR Transportation Element Amendment, Major Street Plan to amend the comprehensive plans so as to amend the major street plan by reducing the right-of-way with showing 125 feet to no less than 100 feet up for the segment of Burbank Drive between Milford Avenue to West Parker Boulevard.

Um Planning Staff Findings recommend approval based on reviews of the area in a greater level of detail, considering determination for the department transportation and drainage that the reduction of right away with will be appropriate.

We'll open up um public hearing this time for the item.

Do we have any public comment?

Charles Landry up here as the representative of the developer if you have any questions.

So item three is where we read it.

So Spud 126 L L V Collective Student Housing to resonate the rezoned a general residential A4 to small plan unit development for a high density multifamily residential development or commercial on property located north of Burbank Drive, East of Milford Avenue.

Planning staff findings, the staff certifies the proposed request.

We'll open up the floor to public hearing at this time.

All right, we'll move to council.

So move.

All right.

Second by Councilwoman McComey.

Any objections?

Motion passed.

Thank you.

Appreciate your courage.

All right, item number one.

Uh Plan Baton Rouge three, small area plan.

The plan focuses on the downtown, downtown historical core of Baton Rouge, generally bounded by the Mississippi River on the west, Oklahoma Street, Nicholson Drive, and Myrtle Avenue on the south, the Canadian Pacific Kansas City Railroad Corridor on the east, and Choctaw Drive and adjacent rail spur and standing toward North Third Street and Elon Street Corridor on the north on the north, returning to the Mississippi River.

Council District 10 Coleman plan planning staff findings.

The planning commission staff recommends approval.

We're going to open up public um hearing at this time for the item.

Any public comment?

State your name and who you are.

Eric Dexter 574, Silver Bill Lane.

Um I am the uh vice president of civic leadership initiatives at the Baton Nigeria Foundation.

I've had the pleasure uh as uh being the project lead on this project.

And I just wanted to take a few moments, one to thank you again, Chairman, uh, and rest of the council members for uh walking this journey with us over the last uh year and a half, two years as we've developed this plan.

Um I just wanted to say here in Baton Rouge, we love our sports.

Um, even so much so we decided to hire and elect a coach to be our mayor.

Uh but you don't build a dynasty in one season in sports.

You establish a system, you trust the process, you let the results accumulate over time.

That's exactly what this community did with Plan Baton Rouge 1 and 2.

More than 25 years ago, Plan Baton Rouge 1 helped to reimagine a downtown that experienced decades of disinvestment with the renewed focus on downtown at the heart of our region.

A decade later, Plan Baton Rouge 2 expanded the vision, prioritizing connectivity, housing, transportation, and a stronger relationship with the Mississippi River.

It worked.

Together, those plans led to $3 billion in both public and private investments over two decades.

That's not a coincidence.

That's the compounding power of clear community-backed plan executed over time.

Those plans catalyze the downtown Greenway, North Boulevard Town Square, Galvez Plaza, the Shaw Center for the Arts, new residential high-rises like the Heron Downtown and 525 Lafayette, and a hotel market that simply didn't exist before.

That transformed downtown from a place people left at work at the end of the day into a place where people increasingly choose to live, work, visit, and invest.

Phase two alone saw over 80% of its 104 proposals implemented and earn national recognition.

This region proved it knows how to execute.

But our work is not finished.

Plan Baton Rouge 2 was completed in 2009, and a lot has changed in 16 years.

Downtown deserves an updated playbook.

Plan Baton Rouge 3 is that playbook.

It's practical, it's an implementable roadmap, targeting more than 1.5 billion dollars in early investment, over 5,000 new jobs, 37 million dollars in additional tax rev annual tax revenue, and tripling downtown's residential population over the next decade.

And most importantly, this plan was built by the community through surveys, public meetings, workshops, stakeholder interviews, thousands of voices helped shape its recommendations.

This isn't a plan handed down.

It's a plan that has been earned.