NEW ROADS [AP] — The Pointe Coupee Police Jury has approved a plan designed to serve as an outline for parish growth over the next 20 to 30 years.
The 65-page document, written by parish officials and Fregonese Associates of Portland, Ore., was three years in the making.
Janet Tharp, a representative with Fregonese and Associates, said the parish’s population has grown only by about 1,000 people in the last century.
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With the construction of the John James Audubon Bridge connecting West Feliciana and Pointe Coupee parishes scheduled to be completed next year, Tharp said, Pointe Coupee Parish should plan for an influx of about 10,000 people in the next several years and a more than doubling of the population to about 48,000 people in 2040.
