Mobile and Baldwin County News
Mayor Spiro Cheriogotis says Mobile’s Downtown Development District rewrite aims to protect historic, walkable character while making standards clearer. A draft goes out for public comment this fall, with City…
The owner of the closed Quality Inn at 255 Church St. wants downtown Mobile’s zoning changed to allow a taller, denser mixed-use project. The City Council takes up the request…
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…
Africatown residents are pushing for the historic Mobile community to be designated a “safety zone” under the city’s updated zoning code, arguing that encroaching industrial development threatens both the health…
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…
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…