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The parish has paused new building and land changes in Avery Estates
The government's number for this: Ordinance C.S. 26-5977
What is happening?
The parish has paused new building and land changes in Avery Estates. What is paused: Change to lot lines/Rezoning/Issuance of Permits for construction or placement of building structures. 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 26-5977. 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?
Avery Estates.
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.
Avery Estates building pause
Resubdivision/Rezoning/Issuance of Permits for construction or placement of building structures District: 13
Words used in this record
- Zoning
- The rules that say what can be built on a piece of land, and what it can be used for.
- Rezoning
- Changing the rules for what can be built on a piece of land.
- Subdivision
- Splitting one piece of land into smaller lots that can be sold separately.
- Resubdivision
- Moving the property lines between lots that already exist.
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.