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ORDINANCE NO. 142
An ordinance prepared under the authority of Article 14, Section 3 of the Constitution
of the State of Louisiana, relative to Parish Charter Commissions providing for the
creation of Home Rule Charters and more particularly pursuant to the Charter for Local
Self Government for Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, Section 2, Legislative Powers and
Section 3, Other Powers, all as therein enumerated, which powers are reserved in the
1974 Constitution of Louisiana in Article VI, Sections 4 and 6, reserving unto this
Council the Police Power of Zoning and as provided by Louisiana RS 33:101, et seq.,
relative to Planning Commissions as created by Ordinance 133 of the Council; and in
consideration of the peculiar problems occasioned by the fact that the Parish of Plaquemines
is geographically located at the mouth of and bisected by the Mississippi River, the
largest river of the United States, which with its tributaries drains all of the central
United States, and such parish is surrounded in part by the waters of the Gulf of
Mexico and has been susceptible to the overflows from such river, as well as the overflows
from the Gulf of Mexico as the same are affected by seasonal flooding and tropical
hurricanes. This ordinance is adopted in the light of the foregoing to regulate and
restrict the use of land, river, water, marshes, bayous and streams, lakes and other
geographic features of the Parish for trade, industry, residence or for other purposes
and to regulate and restrict the density of the population and the percentage of a
plot that may be occupied, all in accordance with the peculiar geographic location,
flood and weather forces to which this parish is uniquely susceptible, as well as
in consideration of the hazards of environmental contamination resulting from its
geographic location at the mouth of the Mississippi River and its tributaries and
being subject to the forces of nature, as all these affect human habitation which
is possible through the expenditure of vast sums of money for flood protection, both
from the river and the Gulf of Mexico, for drainage, water, sewerage and other Governmental
services. In order to take full advantage of nature's resources with which the Parish
has an abundance in minerals, wild life, fishes, etc., this ordinance is enacted for
said purposes to divide the Parish into districts; to regulate and restrict the erection
or use of buildings or land, rivers, bayous, lakes, water bottoms and marshes; and
to provide for the change of such regulations, restrictions, and boundaries of zones;
to provide for enforcement and to provide penalties for the violations of its provisions;
all in accordance with and under the authority and the Local Self Government Charter,
as hereinabove enumerated and pursuant to the purposes hereinabove stated.
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