Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of city planning from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
Milton city leaders are reviewing design plans for a $2.4-$4.2 million 'Mill District' near the Blackwater River, a two-phase project pairing a public plaza with a small retailer village downtown.
Mobile will host a Sept. 2 community workshop at the National Maritime Museum of the Gulf to gather public input on updating the Downtown Development District code first adopted in…
A proposed industrial buffer zone protecting Africatown from encroaching development remains the last obstacle to passing Mobile's overhauled zoning code, even as the City Council approved new rules on short-term…
Downtown Mobile is moving toward a redesign built around people rather than cars. The Mobile City Council has approved a master services agreement with Mobile-based engineering firm Volkert, Inc. to…
Mobile's city administration has submitted a long-awaited rewrite of the city's zoning and development rules to the City Council, aiming to replace regulations that date back to the 1960s with…
PENSACOLA, Fla. — The City of Pensacola is working to make downtown safer for people who walk and ride bicycles, and architects are close to finishing the first set of…
MOBILE, Ala. — A standing-room-only crowd turned out for a community input meeting on the future of the Perch Creek Parks project, with residents weighing in on how three waterfront…
After nine oak trees were cleared for a new downtown hotel, Mobile city leaders are exploring stronger rules to keep it from happening again.
Community leaders held meetings this week to gather resident input as Mobile begins a new phase of planning for Africatown's historic redevelopment.
Mobile’s first comprehensive citywide plan in decades is taking shape, and one of its most consequential ideas is also one of its simplest: give the waterfront its own conversation. The…