Smart Growth, a New Year's Resolution for Baton Rouge?

89.3 WRKF Baton Rouge | By Amy Jeffries

Published January 1, 2014 at 6:38 AM CST

WRKF set up its Recording Booth at the Louisiana Smart Growth Summit, put on by the Center for Planning Excellence at the Shaw Center back in November.

People at the summit — planners, landscape architects, public officials, environmentalists — were asked a simple question: What does “smart growth” look like in Baton Rouge?

The answers could almost be a set of new year’s resolutions for the city...

WRKF's Amy Jeffries demonsrates the Recording Booth.

Tags

Amy Jeffries

Amy started her career in public radio at WNPR in Hartford, CT more than a decade ago. NPR flew her in to Baton Rouge to help WRKF cover the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina while she was still based in the North. Here she found her journalistic calling.

Smart Growth, a New Year's Resolution for Baton Rouge?

👋 Looks like you could use more news. Sign up for our newsletters.