Jason Zuckerman - Mandeville City Council at Large

06/04/2026

🚨 Motorized Bike & Scooter Safety Reminder 🚨

We are seeing more reports of juveniles riding e-bikes, electric scooters, and other motorized bikes through neighborhoods, on sidewalks, and in traffic.

Please understand these are not all the same. The rules can change depending on whether it has pedals or no pedals, whether it is gas or electric, how fast it goes, how it is built, and whether it is actually street legal.

Just because it is electric does not automatically mean it is legal to ride on public streets.

The main issue is not kids simply riding bikes. The issue is dangerous behavior being reported, including:

• Wheelies and stunts in the roadway
• Riding against traffic
• Running stop signs and traffic lights
• Cutting between vehicles
• Riding on sidewalks
• Impeding traffic
• Young children riding unsupervised near traffic

This is dangerous for the rider, drivers, and pedestrians.

Before allowing a child to ride one of these bikes or scooters on or near public roadways, parents and guardians should check whether it is street legal and where it can legally be operated. Public streets, sidewalks, and traffic are not the place for stunts, racing, or unsupervised riding.

To help educate young riders and families, the Covington Police Department will host an E-Bike & E-Scooter Safety Course on July 31, 2026, from 2 PM to 4 PM at the Covington Police Department Training Room, 609 N. Columbia Street.

Ages 7-18 are encouraged to attend. Please bring a helmet.

Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/covington-pds-e-bicycle-e-scooter-safety-course-for-kids-tickets-1989310278594?aff=oddtdtcreator

Ride safe. Follow the law. Help us keep our neighborhoods safe.

04/16/2026

In addition to the big win last week with the unanimous passage of my Ordinance 26-03 which tightened up language in the CLURO to prevent overdevelopment on properties zoned Planned District, I also introduced Ordinance 26-13 which I also authored.

When a new project is proposed that requires a Traffic Impact Analysis (traffic study), Ordinance 26-13, if passed, will require the City of Mandeville to procure its own traffic study rather than rely solely on the applicant to submit their own. If passed, the cost of the City procured study would be paid by the applicant as part of their application fees.

Additionally, Ordinance 26-13 proposes some specific changes to the “level of service” such studies use as a benchmark giving the city a better picture of the true impact on traffic with proposed developments.

This Ordinance will directly remedy two issues:

1. The City will have at its disposal traffic studies from its own consultant(s) when considering traffic impact from proposed developments as opposed to relying on information provided solely by applicants/developers seeking approval.

2. Adjust/increase the “level of service” to be considered in future studies to give both the Planning and Zoning Commission and the City Council a better picture of the true impact on traffic when considering approval proposed developments.

Ordinance 26-13 will now head to the Planning and Zoning Commission for their recommendations and back to the Council for a vote.

If any further explanation is needed, I can be reached at (504) 881-6920 or [email protected]

Thanks and I hope you will support the passage of this Ordinance AND contact the other Council Members and urge their support as well.

Thanks so much. J.

04/16/2026

Mandeville is the ONLY community left in the metro New Orleans area not walled off from Lake Pontchartrain by levees, flood walls, etc. that one must drive through or over to get to the lake. We still enjoy a very physical and visual connection with the lake and that connection is a core component of the character of the City of Mandeville.

We have two options to deal with impacts from Lake Pontchartrain… wall ourselves off from the lake with “gray solutions” such as flood walls/flood gates, levees, etc or live with the water and try to restore our shoreline with a “green solution”…a return a living shoreline to offer natural protection from storms while maintaining our connect to the water which is so critical to the character and quality of life in Mandeville.

This is one of the main reasons I sought a seat on the City Council. Please attend this event if you can.

Please join us for the upcoming Mandeville Living Shoreline Feasibility Study Project P***c Outreach Meeting schedule on Monday, April 27, 2026 beginning for 6:00pm at Kelly's Cabana (124 Girod Street in Mandeville).

The public is encouraged to complete the below input survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/mandeville_living_shoreline

Note: Food and Drinks will be the responsibility of the attendees.

04/13/2026

Now that was fun.

04/10/2026

The City Council UNANIMOUSLY (5-0) passed Ordinance 26-03, which I authored, at last night’s Council Meeting.

This Ordinance will prevent overdevelopment when multiple uses are proposed on a single piece of property zoned Planned District by not allowing the entire property size, which may be taken up with other uses, to increase density beyond what would be allowed by the CLURO if a single use was proposed for the entire site.

This Ordinance is extremely important as it clarifies and reinforces what I strongly believe the CLURO already requires.

Never again will the existing CLURO regulations for Planned District be subject to loose interpretation wherein building areas, number of residential units, and other site development criteria are calculated using the entire property size taken up with other uses.

With the passage of Ordinance 26-03, only the area of the site designated for each use within the mixed-use site can be used in those calculations. Additionally, areas of sites extending into and under Lake Pontchartrain or other water bodies cannot be used in those calculations.

This has been a long battle and I hope that no future Council will have to fight this issue ever again. Many thanks to all of the Council Members and constituents who supported my efforts here.

04/07/2026

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04/04/2026

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04/04/2026

After receiving some very helpful feedback from Marina owners, I have placed Ordinance 26-03 back on the Agenda for the upcoming Council Meeting on April 9. Along with some minor changes proposed by the Planning and Zoning Commission, I plan to offer an amendment to remove any changes/references to PM-1 and PM-2 zoning classifications from it.

After considering the feedback I received, it was clear that inclusion of those zoning classifications in addition to Planned District did not add anything to the intent of the Ordinance.

This Ordinance is extremely important as it clarifies and reinforces what I strongly believe the CLURO already requires with regard to the application of site development regulations for individual uses within mixed use developments.

That is that when calculating allowable building areas for new developments, the number of residential units allowed, and other site development criteria, only the area of the site designated for each use within the mixed-use site can be used in those calculations. Additionally, areas of sites extending into and under Lake Pontchartrain or other water bodies cannot be used in those calculations.

If passed, these clarifications will only apply to properties zoned as Planned District and will prevent loose interpretations of existing provisions in the future.

As I have indicated since its introduction, this Ordinance is aimed to prevent overdevelopment when multiple uses are proposed on a single piece of property by using the entire property size, which may be taken up with other uses, to increase density beyond what would be allowed by the CLURO if a single use was proposed for the entire site.

I hope you will not only support this Ordinance but also the changes that have been proposed to it not only by the Planning and Zoning Commission but suggested by feedback I received from my Marina constituents. Both the original version of of the Ordinance and the proposed changes are included in the meeting packet on the City’s website.

Please contact your other Council Members and urge them to support Ordinance 26-03 and if any further explanation is needed, I can be reached at (504) 881-6920 or [email protected]

Good Evening. Ordinance 26-03 is on the Council’s Agenda for debate and a vote this Thursday (March 12) after a favorable recommendation from the Planning Commission. This Ordinance clarifies and reinforces what I strongly believe the CLURO already requires with regard to the application of site development regulations for individual uses within mixed use developments.

That is that when calculating allowable building areas for new developments, the number of residential units allowed, and other site development criteria, only the area of the site designated for each use within the mixed-use site can be used in those calculations. Additionally, areas of sites extending into and under Lake Pontchartrain or other water bodies cannot be used in those calculations.

These clarifications apply to mixed use developments only, which include Planned District and PM-1, by preventing loose interpretations of existing provisions in the future. This Ordinance is aimed to prevent overdevelopment when multiple uses are proposed on a single piece of property by using the entire property size, which may be taken up with other uses, to increase density beyond what would be allowed by the CLURO if a single use was proposed for the entire site.

This Ordinance DOES NOT impact the operation or change anything with regard to the operation of existing marinas in PM-1. It simply clarifies that if MULTIPLE USES are proposed when developing a site in Planned District or PM-1 that the density and area calculations for what can be built are based off the area of the site designated for each individual use.

If any further explanation is needed, I can be reached at (504) 881-6920 or [email protected]

Thanks and I hope you will support the passage of this Ordinance.

J.

04/02/2026

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A study commissioned by St. Tammany Parish found the parish will need 11,500-17,300 new homes by 2030.

04/01/2026

Well, this is interesting.

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