PLAQUEMINE - It's an expensive he said she said scenario that has left a parish government feeling deceived and a couple of property owners who want to be made whole.

The Iberville Parish Planning Commission gave the green light to a couple with hopes of turning an empty lot into a rental property. Then, when people started asking questions the decision was reversed and work abruptly stopped.

Caroline and Gerald Porche purchased the lot located on Stampley Drive in Plaquemine for their business, Porche's Rentals. Their plan includes subdividing the lot to create two properties and place a mobile home for rental income on each. They hired a surveyor and the plans were submitted and approved to the planning commission last fall.

"They all agreed we could split the property," Caroline Porc

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