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The City of Covington took this land into its boundary on 7 December 2006
The government's number for this: Parish resolution C-1959
What is happening?
The City of Covington took this land into its boundary on 7 December 2006. Land inside a town follows the town’s rules and pays the town’s taxes, not the parish’s. The parish had it zoned C-2 Highway Commercial; the city zoned it C-3 Highway Business. The paperwork is city ordinance 2007-01 and parish resolution C-1959.
Where is it happening?
Annexation Area 1.
Why does it matter to me?
An ordinance is a city law. Once it passes it applies to everyone in the city until the council changes it again.
What could change?
It passed, so it is city law now. It stays that way until the council changes it.
When will a decision or vote happen?
The decision was made on December 7, 2006.
What was the final decision?
Passed on December 7, 2006.
Can I speak about it?
The record does not say where this gets heard, so we cannot tell you where to speak about it.
The government's exact words
We put the plain English first. This is the wording the government itself published, copied exactly, in case you need it.
Land taken into Covington
Notes: Annexation Area 1 Parish zoning: C-2 Highway Commercial City zoning: C-3 Highway Business City ordinance: 2007-01
Words used in this record
- Ordinance
- A city law. Once the council passes one, it stays in force until the council changes it.
- Zoning
- The rules that say what can be built on a piece of land, and what it can be used for.
- Annexation
- Adding land into the city, so city rules and city services apply to it.
How The Rabbit Hole got this
- Retrieved
- 6 September 2026, 5:56pm
- Method
- Read directly from the government’s own mapping server
- Note
- St. Tammany Parish annexation layer: land taken into a town, with the town ordinance and the parish resolution.