- June 24, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – East Baton Rouge’s Metro Council is looking at putting a temporary pause on new develop in the parish, it’s something that business owners and others say needs to happen in order to assess some of the drainage issues.
“Find me a city-parish employee that does not think we have a problem with drainage and flooding in East Baton Rouge Parish, find me one,” says Randy Rice. Rice’s business is just one of the many places that flooded back in May. He got a foot of water in his office and two feet of water behind the building. He says he and 33 other businesses flooded in Camden Park Office, not far from Bluebonnet Boulevard in Baton Rouge. Rice blames the flood water on new development, and that’s why he thinks there needs to be a moratorium. “We never flood. We never flooded after 2016, we have had hotels being built on Summa, apartment complexes, there are two hotels built right now. All of that adds to the drainage…
