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Planning Commission backs 'Historic Avenue' overlay to allow smaller lots, ADUs and cottage courts in older neighborhoods
Summary
The commission voted to adopt Article 15 to the Unified Development Code, a 'Historic Avenue' overlay that reduces minimum lot area and width, allows accessory dwelling units, cottage courts and small attached units in specified neighborhoods, and sets a 2,000‑square‑foot minimum for newly created lots.
The Mobile Planning Commission on April 17 voted to forward and approve an amendment to the Unified Development Code creating a new Historic Avenue overlay (Article 15) intended to ease development constraints in older, narrow‑lot neighborhoods.
Staff explained the overlay aims to encourage infill housing types that fit the historic fabric of neighborhoods such as The Campground, Lafayette Heights and The Bottom. The overlay reduces dimensional…
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