The Livingston Parish Council has rejected a move to direct more sales tax revenue to the long-awaited Juban Crossing mixed-use development off Interstate 12 between Denham Springs and Walker. Thursday's vote was 6-3 against.
The measure would have raised a 2007 pledge of 40 percent of a 3/4-cent road sales tax collected within the Juban Crossing Community Development District, which encompasses the development's proposed area, to 100 percent to borrow money to finance road improvements in the development.
Stephen Keller, Juban Crossing's developer, said the project will move forward regardless of the extra revenue but will have to be scaled back without it.
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