| Advisory Opinion request from Brady Hotard, a member of the West Baton Rouge Planning and Zoning Commission, relative to a zoning request by Beuche P1, LLC that would affect property leased to his father-in-law's company. West Baton Rouge Parish has a population of 23,788. |
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Brady Hotard is an appointed member of the West Baton Rouge Planning and Zoning Commission. Mr. Hotard's father-in-law, Alan Gustin, owns Westbank Planting Company, LLC, which leases 4,073 acres from Milliken and Farwell, Inc., to farm sugar cane and soybeans.
Milliken and Farwell, Inc. and EcoPlexus, a solar panel company, would like to construct a solar panel farm on 1,042 acres of the 4,073 acres being farmed by Westbank Planting, LLC.
Beuche PV1, LLC, of which EcoPlexus is an officer/member, has filed a request with the West Baton Rouge Planning and Zoning Commission for a zoning amendment on the 1,042 acres changing it from AG (Agricultural) to AG with a Special Use for a Solar Farm.
Alan Gustin has no ownership interest in Milliken and Farwell, EcoPlexus, or Beuche PV1, LLC, and does not have a future ownership or involvement in the proposed solar panel development.
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La. R.S. 42:1113B provides no appointed member of any board or commission, member of his immediate family, or legal entity in which he has a substantial economic interest shall bid on or enter into or be in any way interested in any contract, subcontract, or other transaction which is under the supervision or jurisdiction of the agency of such appointed member.
La. R.S. 42:1112B(1) provides no public servant shall participate in a transaction involving the governmental entity in which, to his actual knowledge, any member of his immediate family has a substantial economic interest.
La. R.S. 42:1102(13) defines "immediate family" as the term relates to a public servant to mean his children, the spouses of his children, his brothers and their spouses, his sisters and their spouses, his parents, his spouse, and the parents of his spouse.
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Adopt the proposed advisory opinion draft.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Greg Thibodeaux |
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