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Developer and neighbors clash over rezoning for Norwood senior housing project
Summary
Developer Clarence Ball presented plans for a senior-focused mixed-income development at Norwood Drive and sought rezoning from R-1 to R-3; neighbors and several council members urged more outreach. The planning commission previously recommended approval 8–1; the council did not take a final vote and requested further meetings.
Clarence Ball, president of Ball Healthcare Services, asked the Mobile City Council on April 22 to approve rezoning of a parcel in the Norwood area to allow a mixed-income, senior-focused development that would include independent- and assisted-living units built under the federal low-income housing tax credit program.
Ball said the project is aimed at “active adult residential” tenants aged 55 and older and described income bands he said would target people making roughly $28,500 to $52,600 — “50 to 80% of Mobile’s median income,” he said — and that the project design reduces density to about 60 units on the rezoned parcel compared with what he said could be “a hundred houses” under existing R-1 development patterns.
The proposal prompted several council…
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