SULPHUR — The Sulphur City Council adopted a Comprehensive Master Plan for the city at its monthly meeting Monday.

The plan provides a long-term look for the city, Sulphur Mayor Chris Duncan said.

He said the plan would provide an outline for the city as well as areas inside it — for instance, he said, the continued development of Cypress Street as a medical center.

The first paragraph of the 125-page plan describes it as a “living document.” It is also called a “blueprint for the future.”

Duncan said there are no physical changes in the plan — any changes would have to go before the Land Use Commission and the City Council.

“This is just adopting the Master Plan, which is part of the requirements for the zoning board, or Land Use Commission as we call it,” Duncan said. “So it’s just setting a precedent for what people want in the future. It’s an ongoing plan; we’re going to look at it every year.”

The Master Plan can be downloaded from Sulphur’s website, www.sulphur.org, where there is also a form through which the public can comment.

Sulphur hired Tim Jackson Consulting LLC and Villavaso & Associates LLC to draft the plan.

• The council voted in its redistricting plan for its five council districts, again without comment.

Three public hearings have been held on the redistricting plans and have gotten no response from the public, which Duncan said “disappointed” him. The first public hearing was held at a special-called meeting to which no one showed up.

“My fear is those people that had their area changed, when they go in 2014 to vote, they’re not going to be aware of who their council person is,” Duncan said.

• Sulphur is buying the building that recently housed The Olde Tyme Variety Store, which closed last month.

Sulphur is paying $475,000 for the 12,000-square-foot building.

Duncan said the city needed the parking — the building sits behind the court building and across from Heritage Square — but declined to say how else the building would be used.

• Sulphur will enter into a contract with the Calcasieu Parish District Attorney’s office for a Local Agency Compensated Enforcement project.

The LACE program allows law enforcement to put overtime officers on patrol, with their salaries and the usage of their cars paid for through the citations they issue.

Duncan said the city is also working on a similar program that will put bicycle officers within Sulphur residential areas.