re: Transition team failed to release all of St. George "suggestions"

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Did Central have to get the legislature's approval when it formed its own city?

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Nope. The short description of the process, to the best of my knowledge, is as follows.

1) Any unincorporated part of the state with at least 200 people may petition for incorporation. No permission is required from any government body or official, nor is there anything they can do to stop a proper and legal petition for incorporation. The people do what they will.
2) The people who want to incorporate form a committee, prepare an outline of the area they want to incorporate and the people that live there, propose a name for the city, select chairpersons, draw up plans for public services, compile property values in the area, etc. in order to put together all of the information required by law in a formal petition for incorporation.
3) Then they release it for public scrutiny and begin canvassing the people who live in the area proposed for incorporation to get signatures.
4) Once they think they have the signatures of 25% of the people who would live in the new city, they submit that petition with the signatures to the Parish Clerk of Court who validates that the signatures are of people who would live in the new city and verifies whether or not the petition did get the required 25%.
5) If enough signatures are there, the petition for incorporation and the validation from the Clerk of Court is sent to the Governor who verifies that the petition meets all the requirements that the law stipulates must be present in a valid petition for incorporation.
6) If the petition is in order and the Clerk of Court has validated the signatures, the governor must call a special election for the people who live in the area that would be the proposed new city. If 50% plus one of the people who would be residents of the new city vote to form the city, a municipal corporation for the new city is granted and the city is born.

There is almost nothing other than propaganda that people who live outside the proposed new city can do to stop the process or affect the election; it's all up to the people who would be living in the new city. Of course, there's always the possibility that Baton Rouge could propose to annex chunks of what would be St. George, but they'd have to get the people that live in those chunks to agree to be annexed instead of form a new city. They did this with the Mall and Celtic Studios the last time around.

Other than stuff like that, the government's role in the process is only to write the laws that lay out how the process works and verify that the law is being followed. If the people in an area want a city, the people get a city.