Proposed Village at Beau Phare Would Bring 93 Residential Lots Near Highway 1085

A proposed residential development near LA Highway 1085, Savannah Road and Interstate 12 would create approximately 93 residential lots if built according to the concept plan now circulating publicly.

The project, called The Village at Beau Phare, is scheduled for a public hearing on Tuesday, October 13, 2026, at 6 p.m., according to a notice posted near the property on September 24. The hearing is listed for the St. Tammany Parish Justice Center at 701 N. Columbia Street in Covington.

The proposal comes as residents in western St. Tammany Parish continue to raise concerns about traffic along the Highway 1085 and Highway 1077 corridor. Those concerns are particularly significant because St. Tammany Parish has already identified this part of the parish as an area with transportation limitations and significant traffic delays.

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93 Residential Lots Are Shown On The Plan

The concept plan for The Village at Beau Phare shows 93 individually numbered residential lots, meaning the development could ultimately contain approximately 93 homes if constructed as currently designed.

The plan depicts a full residential subdivision with new internal streets, including Amarre Way and Lanterne Lane, along with drainage areas, detention areas and other infrastructure.

This is not a small collection of homes being added along an existing road. The submitted layout would establish an entirely new neighborhood.

The number of lots is clear from the plan. What is not yet clear enough to report responsibly is the project’s exact acreage and the precise size of the individual residential lots.

The plan contains an area table and a typical lot layout, but the publicly circulating copy reviewed by TRH News is not sharp enough to reliably read those measurements. Until a higher quality copy of the plan or the official submission becomes available, TRH News will not guess at the acreage, average lot size or number of homes per acre.

Those numbers matter. Residential density cannot be accurately calculated simply by counting the homes. The total acreage, acreage devoted to streets and drainage, and actual residential lot area are all needed to determine how tightly the development is being built.

What can be stated now is that 93 residential lots are proposed.

Traffic Concerns Have Already Started

The project began drawing attention after the public notice and concept plan were shared in local social media groups.

One post in the West St. Tammany Traffic and Donuts Facebook group encouraged residents to attend the hearing and said, “We do not need any more traffic in this area.”

Another post sharing the development plan specifically pointed to existing morning congestion on Highways 1085 and 1077 and questioned what another subdivision could mean for the surrounding roads.

Those statements are residents’ opinions, not conclusions about the development’s eventual traffic impact. But the traffic issue itself is not based solely on social media complaints.

St. Tammany Parish’s Multi Modal Transportation Plan specifically identifies the area between LA 1085 and LA 1077 south of Interstate 12 as lacking east west roadway connectivity and experiencing significant traffic delays.

The parish plan includes a proposed I 12 eastbound frontage road connecting LA 1085 to the I 12 eastbound off ramp at LA 1077. In the transportation plan, that project carried an estimated cost of $9.4 million and was listed in the planning stage with a one to five year timeframe at the time the plan was prepared.

That is important context for the Beau Phare proposal. The parish had already identified connectivity and delay problems in this corridor before the current 93 lot subdivision proposal entered the public discussion.

The Area Has Already Required Major Traffic Improvements

The Highway 1085 and Highway 1077 intersection has undergone significant work before.

St. Tammany Parish, the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development and the Federal Highway Administration previously partnered on the roundabout at LA 1077, LA 1085 and Bootlegger Road.

Parish documents stated that the purpose of those improvements included increasing vehicle capacity, improving safety and relieving congestion along the corridor.

The roundabout was constructed, and DOTD continues to maintain the intersection.

The existence of those previous projects does not establish what effect The Village at Beau Phare would have on traffic. That would require examination of the development’s access points, expected vehicle trips, existing traffic volumes and any required mitigation.

It does show that transportation capacity in this immediate area has been an official planning issue for years.

The 93 Lot Count Also Matters Under Parish Access Rules

There is another detail worth watching as the plans move forward.

Under St. Tammany Parish’s current Unified Development Code, subdivisions containing more than 100 lots are required to have at least two ingress and two egress points providing access to an existing public street, subject to limited exceptions.

The Village at Beau Phare concept plan shows 93 lots, placing it below that particular more than 100 lot threshold.

That does not mean the development is exempt from access requirements or that a particular entrance configuration has already been approved. Parish regulations contain separate standards for subdivision entrances, and Louisiana DOTD requirements apply when access involves roads under state jurisdiction.

It does mean the project’s access design will be one of the details worth examining closely as the concept moves through review, particularly given the existing transportation concerns in the surrounding corridor.

Exact Lot Sizes And Density Still Need To Be Verified

One of the most important unanswered questions is exactly how much land would contain the 93 proposed homes.

The concept plan clearly includes acreage and lot information, but the copy currently available is not legible enough to publish those figures with confidence.

Without verified total acreage, reporting a “homes per acre” number would be misleading.

The same applies to individual lot dimensions. Although a typical lot diagram appears on the plan, its measurements cannot be read reliably from the available photograph.

A clearer copy should answer several questions immediately, including the total acreage of the development, typical lot width and depth, average residential lot size, acreage devoted to drainage and detention, and overall residential density.

Those figures will be added once they can be verified.

This Is Still A Concept Plan

The public notice identifies the application as a Concept Plan Submission.

That distinction matters.

The 93 homes shown on the drawing have not simply been cleared for construction because a concept plan exists. The proposal remains within the parish review process, and the layout, infrastructure requirements or other portions of the development could change before any final subdivision is built.

The October hearing gives residents an opportunity to address the proposal while it is still being reviewed.

Questions about traffic, entrances and exits, drainage, lot density, roadway capacity and infrastructure can all become part of that public process.

Public Hearing Scheduled For October 13

According to the notice posted at the property, the public hearing for The Village at Beau Phare is scheduled for Tuesday, October 13, 2026, at 6 p.m.

The notice lists the location as the St. Tammany Parish Justice Center, 701 N. Columbia Street in Covington, and provides 985 898 2552 for additional information.

For now, the clearest measure of the project’s scale is the concept plan itself.

Ninety three residential lots are proposed near Highway 1085, Savannah Road and Interstate 12 in a corridor that St. Tammany Parish has already identified as having significant traffic delays and limited east west connectivity.

The next major questions are how much land those 93 homes would occupy, how large the lots would be, where traffic would enter and leave the development, and what infrastructure improvements would be required if the project moves forward.