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Tangipahoa Parish Council extends moratorium on certain residential treatment applications and adopts new enforcement procedures
Summary
The council adopted TP Ordinance 26-19 to extend a temporary moratorium on acceptance, processing and approval of applications under Article 9, Chapter 26 (halfway houses, addiction-treatment facilities, juvenile detention, live-in mental-health facilities, sober living homes and homeless shelters) through Sept. 14, 2026, and adopted TP Ordinance 26-18 establishing procedures for noncompliant uses.
Tangipahoa Parish Council on July 13 adopted two ordinances aimed at tightening local control over certain residential treatment and group-living facilities. The council adopted TP Ordinance 26-19 to extend the temporary moratorium established by TP Ordinance 25-43 on the acceptance, processing and approval of applications under Article 9, Chapter 26 — specifically covering halfway houses, addictive-disorder treatment facilities, juvenile detention facilities, live-in mental-health facilities, sober living homes and homeless shelters — through Sept. 14, 2026. The motion to adopt TP Ordinance 26-19 was moved by Mister Beal and seconded by Miss Ciatek; the ordinance was adopted on a roll-call vote.
At the same meeting the council adopted TP Ordinance 26-18, described as an amendment and enactment of Chapter 1 (general provisions) to create procedures for addressing noncompliant uses and operations. The ordinance was presented as coming from the Development Review Committee; a councilmember made the motion to adopt and the ordinance passed on roll call.
Council members did not engage in extended debate on either ordinance during the adoption votes recorded in the meeting. The presiding officer summarized the scope of TP Ordinance 26-19 when introducing it, listing the types of facilities the moratorium covers and the proposed new expiration date. No formal amendments to the two ordinances were recorded during the meeting.
The moratorium extension will pause the parish’s processing of new applications for the listed facility types through Sept. 14, 2026, while the parish implements (via TP Ordinance 26-18) clearer procedures for addressing uses it determines to be noncompliant. The ordinances provide the parish additional administrative authority over applications and existing operations identified under the cited code sections.
Next steps: both ordinances were adopted and will be codified by parish staff; any parties affected by the moratorium or the new enforcement procedures will need to follow future parish guidance for applications or appeals.
