This is the only tool we have to manage school capacity. We're using this as a timing device. Is the land ripe for development? If there aren't enough schools, then no. This is a zoning technique that's used across the country.

If a property doesn't need to be rezoned, this comprehensive plan amendment will not have a big effect.

It doesn't give them a loophole. It just gives them more time.

I was the only kid in school who ate kippers on toast for breakfast.

In Lake Charles, the United Way was a big contributor to their system. The school board here talked about how it could be supplemented. There were ways to pay for this. You could also get the track involved ... employees could just hop on the bus to get to work. And you could work out a shuttle program with the Wal-Mart distribution center for their work shifts.

I grew up here, went to school here and it seems like Lebanon has just gone backwards. It's worse now than it was back in the 60's.