Michael Tortorich
The Ascension Parish Council emerged from executive session after nearly a half hour April 15 to approve the preliminary plat of the Delaune Estates subdivision.
The vote for the subdivision planned for the Prairieville area was 6-5, which Parish President Clint Cointment announced the following day that he would veto.
Council members voting to approve were: Alvin “Coach” Thomas, Corey Orgeron, Dempsey Lambert, Teri James Casso, Aaron Lawler, and John Cagnolatti.
Orgeron included a motion to reduce the total lots of the subdivision by ten. Previously known as Antebellum Pointe, the plan had included 237 lots.
The council’s vote during the meeting in Gonzales was to settle a September 2020 lawsuit filed by the property owners of the 86-acre pastureland located off of Hwy. 73 at White Road. About a mile down from Interstate 10, the property is across from St. John Catholic Church in a highly traveled area of the parish.