Why does the Lake Charles city marshal only patrol and issue tickets in the area of Ryan Street? 

It isn’t unusual to see an officer issuing tickets several times a day around Walmart Neighborhood Market and the Southgate Shopping Center.

Ward 3 Marshal Joey Alcede said the officers were working the LACE — or Local Agency Compensation Enforcement — detail.

The program is funded and administered by the Calcasieu Parish District Attorney’s Office, and Alcede said his agency supplies three off-duty officers for it.

The deputy marshals don’t use radar, he said, so “they concentrate on areas that have incidents of stop sign and traffic light violations.”

For more info: www.ward3marshal.org; www.calcasieuda.com.

 

City residential code defines ‘family’

Does the city of Lake Charles have a residential code limiting the number of unrelated persons allowed to live in one house?

City spokesman Matt Young noted that Lake Charles’ residential code defines “family” as “one or more persons related by blood, marriage, adoption, or guardianship”; “the occupants of a community or group home for mentally or physically challenged individuals”; or “not more than four persons not so related occupying a dwelling unit.”

Halfway houses, detoxification centers and similar facilities are excluded from the definition, the code says, because they’re not considered “ ‘family’ structures.”

For more info: www.cityoflakecharles.com.

Sasol acquired land via negotiations

Did Sasol use eminent domain to obtain property from any of the residents of the Mossville community?

No.

“All of the property Sasol acquired from Mossville landowners was obtained through private negotiations,” company spokesman Russell Johnson wrote in an email.

“The majority of this property was part of the company’s voluntary property purchase program, in which Sasol agreed to purchase land it did not want and did not need for its new petrochemical project because Mossville residents asked us to do so.”

For more info: http://sasolnorthamerica.com/Sasol-and-Mossville.

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