St. Tammany Parish President Mike Cooper leads one of the fastest-growing communities in the state -- and that's become a problem for him. Cooper wants the parish council to help slow things down.
Cooper wants to put a hold on new, high density residential development. New subdivisions have been sprouting in St. Tammany and Cooper says it's moving too fast.
"We've been experiencing high growth and the infrastructure's not keeping up with that," he said.
"We have demand on our utilities, water and sewage utilities, with capacities and collection lines, and distribution lines for water. We've got strain on our highway and bridge and drainage infrastructure."
Cooper says those projects are in the pipeline, it just takes time to build it: "We've got money invested in all of this infrastructure in the months and the years to come."
Cooper wants the council to agree to a moratorium on any development that places more than one unit per acre. The council should take it up next month, with public debate to follow.