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Mayor and district discuss shared parking, practice facility and parking-funded retention for activity center
Summary
Huntsville Mayor Travis Batson joined the Jan. 7 Huntsville School District board meeting to describe a draft master plan for shared parking, a proposed 150-space overflow lot, possible underground retention pond funding, walk bridges and future road extensions linking district and city facilities.
At the Jan. 7 Huntsville School District board meeting, Mayor Travis Batson described early plans for a coordinated master plan that would link the district’s athletic and academic facilities with a city activity center and park. The proposal emphasizes shared parking, multiuse spaces, improved drainage and future roadway connections.
Batson told board members the city and district have discussed siting an indoor practice facility near the activity center, adding roughly 150 additional parking spaces along the floodplain for shared use, and the possibility of replacing an open retention pond with underground retention if the district permits parking in the proposed area. “We would be willing…to do the survey. We would pay for actually the parking and…
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