Permits, Buildings, and Solid Waste

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BUILDING PERMITS
Building permits are required prior to beginning:

  • any type of construction or remodeling/renovations project,
  • moving a manufactured home, modular, or portable building,
  • installation of electrical wiring, mechanical equipment, plumbing piping, or gas piping,
  • re-roofing, or
  • demolitions.
The permit process can sometimes be frustrating and confusing, so please feel free to contact our office to speak with our permit officials Joel Johnson (jjohnson@appj.us), Angie Plante (aplante@appj.us), or Shira Bennett (sbennett@appj.us) at 337-639-4328.

Permit Fee Schedules can be found here:

Building Code Permit Fee Schedule

Commercial Plan Review Fee Schedule


MANUFACTURED HOME PERMITS

Manufactured homes must be a Wind Zone 2 or 3. To start the permit process you will need the year, model, HUD number, and size of the manufactured home. 

UTILITY PERMITS
Utility permits are required prior to installing utilities in Parish Road Rights-of Way. Complete utility permit applications and deposits (when applicable) must be submitted to the Parish Engineer. The utility permit application can be found here.


HEAVY HAULER PERMITS
Heavy hauler permits must be acquired by contacting the Public Works Office in Oberlin, LA at 337-639-4328.


CULVERT PERMITS
Installation of culverts for private crossing of public drainage ditches require a culvert permit. Culvert permits can be obtained by contacting the Public Works Office in Oberlin, LA at 337-639-4328. Culvert permits are obtained at no cost. The owner is required to purchase the culvert size as approved by the Allen Parish Police Jury. The culvert can be installed by the Allen Parish Police Jury at a cost of $20/foot.


                                                                                                                Solid Waste

Parish Dumpsites are open on Fridays and Saturdays from 8am to 4pm. 

In order to be more efficient in documenting missed trash pickups we are asking the public to email us the day AFTER your scheduled pickup day if your trash has been missed.

Subject: Trash missed at (address)

Email will need to include:
-Your name
-Physical address
-Normal trash pickup day
Please include if this is your location only or if it is your entire street with a count of how many locations were missed.

If you have a neighbor, family member or friend who does not have access to emails please help them out!