re: House across from Walk On's in Zachary

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Zachary has issues but I think a number will be exacerbated by large developments proposed or being built on 964 by the prison and on Rollins Road near Rollins Place Elementary.

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A wide variety of subdivisions across almost all price points are approved in Zachary now. They will see 3,000 new rooftops in the next decade. The lower end production stuff will generally be to the south, the nicer stuff to the north. 964 will eventually have to be widened at least south of 64, but luckily they have the space to do it. The subdivisions you mentioned on 964 south of Copper Mill have been very controversial because of their size and scale.

Oddly enough Americana by Walk On’s is higher end for Zachary, but it’s on the crappy side of town because of the flood issues. Because that’s the primary route to US 61, they are going to see more commercial development there. Gerry Lane is opening a huge dealer in that area soon. Supposedly a new grocery is coming up near Walk On’s as well. Notice all of the new stuff is built up to a higher elevation than the older format development around there.

Within Zachary - Rollins is still an Ole rural two lane road but the setbacks are mostly appropriate. They will eventually have to convert to a 3 lane street with a center turn lane. Shouldn’t be a huge problem unless there is explosive growth out there. There would be some push back against widening it beyond that. They should do this now because most of the areas where they would have issues only have development on one side of the street. It gets more dirty if it’s on both sides - like Staring or Lee in Baton Rouge.

Port Hudson-Pride is going to eventually be a pain point. Luckily it’s mostly smaller, higher end developments out there so less potential for traffic issues short term. They tend to naturally have larger lots and greater setbacks. But likely also means more local resistance to future road improvements. Hopefully it won’t need that for a very long time.

Then there is the school problem. They’ve got a decent school district and not much in the way of private alternatives. Zachary likes to have one school for each age group, so they will have to expand those or divide them up into a new school somewhere or risk overcrowding. That’s going to be expensive.

Zachary should route the west bound lanes on 64 to Church Street, then add in street parking. That would really help their little downtown. Denham did something similar about 15 years ago.