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Committee approves multiple right-of-way permits including church stormwater line and downtown patio enclosure
Summary
The Tuscaloosa Public Projects Committee approved a slate of right-of-way use permits covering stormwater infrastructure for Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church, repair of a retaining wall at 715 Third Street, a fixed patio enclosure for Big Bad Breakfast and a projecting guitar sign at 1307 University Boulevard.
The Tuscaloosa Public Projects Committee voted to approve several right-of-way use permits, including a stormwater line for Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church at 800 Lurleen Wallace Boulevard North, a private retaining-wall repair at 715 Third Street, a fixed patio enclosure for Big Bad Breakfast at 520 Nineteenth Avenue, and a projecting guitar sign at 1307 University Boulevard.
The approvals were routine and were presented by city staff. Mike, a city staff member who presented the stormwater proposal, said, “So this is a request for some stormwater infrastructure to be placed on our right of way.” He explained the church’s redevelopment will add a parking lot that “will enter and exit off of Eighth Avenue” and that roof and parking runoff would be carried in an underground pipe “out into the public right away.”
Committee members heard that the private lines would be maintained by the church property owner and that the city’s right-of-way use program allows private infrastructure to cross public right of way when the private owner accepts maintenance responsibility. For the retaining wall at 715 Third Street, staff showed photos and a proposed renovation rendering; the district councilman said he had “no issue with it,” calling it “a part of the existing structure” and “a very nice improvement.”
On the downtown permits, Mike described the Big Bad Breakfast request as a “fixed patio enclosure” and said the applicant met the department requirement that sufficient sidewalk width be retained. He also presented a right-of-way use permit for a projecting guitar sign at 1307 University Boulevard and noted an existing canopy that appears to protrude into the public right of way; he said the projecting guitar would be placed above that canopy. He noted the message-board sign shown in the applicant materials is not included with the right-of-way request and may require Zoning Board of Adjustments action.
All four items were approved by voice vote during the meeting.
Committee members and staff did not identify any outstanding conditions beyond the standard permitting and any zoning approvals required for additional signage; no roll-call vote was recorded in the transcript.
