re: Why don't suburbs like Central and Walker ban high density developments?

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personally, a suburb has to go "all out" like this or i have no interest. either make in nice, clean, pretty, safe, and sanitized... or don't bother.

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There is no way to even come close to preserving the "small town feel' without actually being a small town unless there are some pretty tight restrictions on development.

And ultimately it's going to end up just being a more expensive suburb with a bogie main street. But I'd rather live there than in a poorly planned, overly dense suburb.

IMO Baton Rouge has sort of lacked a more controlled, better quality suburb because the city itself was more viable than places like Jackson (which has Madison) or Memphis (which has Germantown, Collierville, Arlington, and Olive Branch). You still have a lot of working/middle class people in Baton Rouge that are totally okay with paying tuition. So there wasn't as much of a need for higher quality suburbs until fairly recently. And they've just not had quite as much time to get themselves organized yet.

But yeah - sign/lighting restrictions, the curbing of multi-family rental housing/apartment complexes, and careful sewer and road infrastructure improvements just aren't really seen in Louisiana's suburbs. At least not yet.