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Committee discusses rezoning, RFP approach for future Fire Station No. 5 site
Summary
City staff told the committee that selling the former Fire Station No. 5 site will likely require rezoning from its current institutional designation before issuing a request for proposals; staff offered to prepare draft zoning language, a permitted-use table and an RFP distribution plan.
City staff told a Tuscaloosa City committee on Oct. 12 that the city should consider rezoning the site of the proposed future Fire Station No. 5 before issuing a request for proposals (RFP) to private-sector buyers. "This was to discuss the RFP process and kind of expectation both in language and process," a city staff member said during the continuation of the item’s discussion.
The staff member said the property is currently zoned institutional and that a private-sector buyer would generally need a different zoning classification for commercial uses. "If you do want to move forward and RFP’ing site, it probably needs to be proactively rezoned," the staff…
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