Planning commission approves major modification for three‑lot PUD on West I‑65 Service Road South despite fire‑access and landscaping concerns

The Mobile Planning Commission on Sept. 18 approved a major modification to a planned unit development at 607 and 800 West I‑65 Service Road South that would allow shared access and shared parking across three lots and the demolition of existing hotels to make way for a proposed multifamily development. The applicant told the commission the number of units has been reduced from about 240 to 217.

The change matters because it alters an existing PUD approval for three separate lots in the northwest quadrant of Airport Boulevard and I‑65, including an older Best Western Plus on the northern parcel and two aging hotels on the middle and southern parcels. The commission’s approval removed condition No. 9 from the staff conditions and amended condition No. 8 to reflect a reduction in required frontage landscape area…