Marshall Simien, Jr.
Mayor, City CouncilLake Charles, LA
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- Sep 29, 2026
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We haven't come up with another plan yet, so we'll probably renew. We still have, even if we renew, we have the option to get out within 30 days, so.
Others are, we'd like for it to be more of a resolution and a guide for development as opposed to hardness because you come out with some unintended results when you do it that way.
Yeah, right now we have a moratorium because we're figuring out what's the next route to go because apparently the way it was working with CivicSource, the people weren't getting clear titles to do what they wanted to do with the…
That's one for, I think it's panhandling, but those are like at interstate areas along major arteries.
I'm not quite sure because I don't want to say they're all homeless because I think there's just some people that just walk around and then they decide to stretch out. We're trying to get together and figure out exactly how to address that.
Yeah, I'd like to get that out to the general public, too, because it's not just the downtown businesses. I know that we've been having a lot of complaints at some of the shopping centers, too, about this kind of situation.
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