Jenkins v. St. Tammany Parish Police Jury

LWHIPPLE, Judge.

In this appeal, plaintiff, C.H. Jenkins, challenges a zoning decision denying a request for a conditional use permit to construct a family cemetery. For the following reasons, we reverse.

*898FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

On June 15, 1995, plaintiff submitted a conditional use permit application to the St. Tammany Parish Police Jury, requesting permission to construct a-one-acre family cemetery on his property. Plaintiff owns 145 acres of woodland property situated along Louisiana Highway 40. The property is divided by a road into two tracts measuring approximately ninety and fifty…