Camiros is currently drafting a Unified Development Code for Shreveport/Caddo Parish, Louisiana. The UDC is a key tool to implement the Shreveport-Caddo Master Plan. The Master Plan, which was adopted in 2012, provides mapped and written policy about how land should be managed and how development should occur. The UDC will take these policies as its base and provide a set of development regulations to implement them.
The intent of the Shreveport/Caddo UDC is to preserve, strengthen, and protect the historic patterns of development that define the character of Shreveport/Caddo, direct investment to targeted growth areas, and create new opportunities for economic development, helping to make Shreveport/Caddo a more sustainable, livable, and business-friendly community.
As this will be a Unified Development Code, the regulations will also implement a number of larger development issues, such as Complete Street transportation regulations, conservation design for natural resource protections, water resource management and stormwater runoff controls, and concurrency requirements to limit sprawl into undeveloped rural areas.
