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

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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.

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baton rouge also sucks arse to get in and out of. Going a few miles in Baton Rouge can take a half hour.

Add that the burbs are almost certainly going to come with increased flood risk and it makes sense why a "the woodlands lite" never developed in BR.

St Fransville is the most realistic option