With something called a master plan now formally approved, the commission dived into some fine-grained details of the proposed zoning amendments.
Mobile’s Planning Commission approved a new zoning plan for the Mobile Civic Center property on Thursday in a process that included the acceptance of a “master plan” that left some deeply involved observers scratching their heads.
Discussion over what to do with the Civic Center property has simmered for years. The phrase “master plan” usually has been used in the context of a detailed proposal, drafted by a development company, laying out which features of the Civic Center complex would be razed, which would be updated, and which new amenities – retail space, housing, lodging and parking structures, for example – would be added.
“It’s way down the road from being what ultimately could be built on that site,” Stimpson said of the zoning proposal. “The reason for doing it, from one perspective, is that if I’m I developer and I look at the zoning as it exists today, I think there’s a blank canvas there, so I can go build anything. We’ve seen that. Developers come in and say I’m going to do this, this, that and the other and really, by the time they have the public hearings … they realize they have wasted a lot of time.
As board member Kirk Mattei had previously observed, relevant municipal code doesn’t precisely spell out what constitutes a master plan. “I think they tried to accommodate a lot of the concerns but they didn’t take into account the primary concern, which is that they rezoned it before it’s been properly master planned, in our view,” she said.
“We had to approve a master plan before voting on the changes creating these new [zoning] districts,” said Anderson. “What was up on the screen was this master plan showing buildings that was developed by Populus and presented to the council and to us previously.”
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