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The parish has paused new building and land changes in Town of Alton Subdivision
The government's number for this: Ordinance C.S. 26-5974
What is happening?
The parish has paused new building and land changes in Town of Alton Subdivision. What is paused: Special permission Permits and/or Permits for construction or placement of building structures & mobile homes. It started on 4 June 2026 and runs out on 4 December 2026, unless the council extends it again. The council passed it as ordinance 26-5974. Some properties are let out of it one at a time by council resolution. Whether yours is one of them is a question for the parish planning department, not something this page can work out.
Where is it happening?
Town of Alton Subdivision.
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 June 4, 2026.
What was the final decision?
Passed on June 4, 2026.
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.
Town of Alton Subdivision building pause
Conditional Use Permits and/or Permits for construction or placement of building structures & mobile homes District: 9&14
Words used in this record
- Conditional use
- Special permission to use land in a way the rules do not normally allow there.
- Subdivision
- Splitting one piece of land into smaller lots that can be sold separately.
How The Rabbit Hole got this
- Retrieved
- 6 September 2026, 5:53pm
- Method
- Read directly from the government’s own mapping server
- Note
- St. Tammany Parish moratorium layer: areas where the parish has paused new building, subdivision or rezoning.