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Council approves city-code edits to reflect new zoning chapter
Summary
Following adoption of a new zoning ordinance effective Jan. 1, the council approved non-substantive corrections across city code to change citations from chapter 24 to chapter 25 and to update cross-references; staff said fees and substantive rules are unchanged.
The Tuscaloosa City Council approved a package of non-substantive edits to city code to align cross-references with a new zoning ordinance chapter.
City staff said the changes follow the adoption of the new zoning ordinance that took effect Jan. 1 and consist mainly of replacing references to the old zoning chapter 24 with references to chapter 25. "This is a result of the adoption of the new zoning ordinance that went into effect on January first of this year. Really, what we're doing is removing the references to the old zoning ordinance chapter 24 and replacing it with references to 25. These are not substantive changes. This is just corrections to language terms and references," said Speaker 4, a city staff member. Staff emphasized the edits do not alter fee schedules or numeric thresholds.
A councilmember asked whether any additional fees were created by the changes; staff replied the fees mentioned in the code are existing fees and would not be changed by the reference updates. After a motion and second the council approved the code corrections by voice vote.
Staff said they had communicated the edits with external stakeholders during the zoning process to reduce confusion. The approved changes update citations across city code and are intended to ensure internal consistency with the city's recently adopted zoning ordinance.
