The small business owner was nearly in tears.
After weeks of back-and-forth with Jefferson Parish officials, they still didn’t have the permit necessary to install a sink and grease trap in their storefront and were at their wit’s end.
It’s the sort of complaint that Jefferson Parish Council members hear on a daily basis, said at-large council member Scott Walker, who shared the owner’s story at a recent council meeting. He described the parish permitting process as full of “unnecessary hurdles.”…