The council voted at a special meeting on Wednesday night to lift a moratorium that was blocking the Covington Trace Ridge apartments from moving forward. Now. the developer, HRI Properties, can apply for permits to being construction.
The St. Tammany Parish Council is proposing to take fiscal control away from the parish Coroner s Office, in a move the council says is motivated by “good government” practices.
After more than six months, the St. Tammany Parish Council finally ended their investigation into Parish President Mike Cooper s handling of a controversial apartment complex on the outskirts of Covington — with no findings of any wrongdoing.
The last parish council took parish president Mike Cooper to task over his administration’s handling of permits for the Covington Trace Ridge apartments near Covington. The new council, with its nine new members, opted not to close the last council’s investigation.