Lafayette planning leaders give nod to Medtronic campus plans

LAFAYETTE — About four months after its plans to build a new corporate campus in Louisville hit a wall during the approval process, medical-device maker Medtronic Inc. — so far, at least — seems to be on track to get the project underway next door in Lafayette.

The city’s Planning Commission passed a series of measures late last week that recommend approval of the campus, which would be located on a roughly 42-acre parcel just south of the Good Samaritan Medical Center in Lafayette, northeast of the interchange of Northwest Parkway and U.S. Highway 287. That parcel…