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Lafayette City Court is closed today, Sept. 11 Unless the closure is extended, the building is scheduled to resume normal operation to the public beginning Thursday, Sept. 12 at 8:30 a.m.
Lafayette has a consolidated city–parish government, known as the Lafayette Consolidated Government; [123] parish voters agreed to consolidation of the city and parish governments in 1996. [ 38 ] [ 42 ] Lafayette's chief executive was initially called the city-parish president, but is now known as the mayor-president for the Lafayette ...
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Lafayette Parish is a part of the region of Acadiana in southern Louisiana, along the Gulf Coast.According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the parish has a total area of 269 square miles (700 km 2), of which 269 square miles (700 km 2) is land and 0.5 square miles (1.3 km 2) (0.2%) is water. [6]
The city of Lafayette then had to decide if it would try again to sell bonds with or without a referendum. The city decided to have a referendum. The council members of the city-parish government before 2005 had stated that they did not want a "media bloodbath" between the city and the incumbents, which was their reason for denying a referendum.
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Louisiana is divided into 64 parishes, which are equivalent to counties, and contains 304 municipalities consisting of four consolidated city-parishes, 64 cities, 130 towns, and 106 villages. [2] Louisiana's municipalities cover only 7.8% of the state's land mass but are home to 46.4% of its population.
LAFAYETTE, Ind. — From 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. over the next week, it will be a little harder to navigate around downtown Lafayette due to scheduled road closures.