Land Use & Zoning

A Louisiana municipality's 'interim development ordinance' or 'moratorium' temporarily prohibits new development while:

AA major developer completes a private project

BThe municipality updates its comprehensive plan or zoning ordinances to address identified issues✓ Correct

CThe parish assessor completes a property revaluation

DA court decides a pending zoning dispute

Explanation

An interim development ordinance (moratorium) is a temporary measure that suspends new development permits while the municipality undertakes a comprehensive plan update or revises zoning ordinances. Courts have generally upheld reasonable, time-limited moratoriums as a valid exercise of police power.

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Key Terms to Know

Zoning

Local government regulations that control land use by dividing areas into zones specifying permitted uses, building sizes, and densities.

Variance

Official permission to use land in a way that does not conform to the applicable zoning ordinance, granted by a zoning board when strict enforcement would cause undue hardship.

Eminent Domain

The power of government to take private property for public use, with the requirement to pay the owner just compensation.

Adverse Possession

A doctrine by which a person can gain legal title to another's land by openly, continuously, and adversely occupying it for a statutory period.