MAUREPAS — The Livingston Parish Planning and Zoning Commission approved the final site plan for an event center that will serve as the centerpiece of a mixed-use development along the Diversion Canal in Maurepas. 

The commission approved the plans for the proposed Destination Diversion Joe Moore Event Center at its Nov. 4 meeting. 

Developer Joe Moore said that the event center on the 32-acre site will be the fourth building at this specific development that has been approved this year. 

"This will be the largest one so far. It will be situated on three lots on a lake," Moore said. "It will be the anchor point of the whole development." 

Moore noted that the center can hold 400 people, with 178 parking spaces planned for the development's first phase.

The site plan for the project was advanced by the commission unanimously.