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Mobile City Board of Adjustment approves variances, fence and sign conditions, extends prior approvals

5749129 · September 9, 2025
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The Mobile City Board of Adjustment on Sept. 8 approved a series of variances and two 12-month extensions, imposed conditions on a school electronic message center and a wholesale-auto office, and accepted a withdrawal of one application.

The Mobile City Board of Adjustment approved multiple variances and two one-year extensions at its Sept. 8 meeting, imposing conditions on several approvals and accepting one withdrawal.

The board — chaired by William Guess — approved a variance for off-site parking and use for a thrift store with four apartments at 264 and 300 North Ann Street and 1303 Adams Avenue, conditioning approval on required landscaping, tree plantings and a residential buffer. The applicant provided a lease for additional parking and told the board the property already contained the uses and that the zoning would allow continued improvements.

The board also granted two separate 12-month extensions: one for a large, wetlands-affected subdivision proposal at 2600 Burton Lane (applicant McDowell Knight/Stephen Harvey) to allow time for a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers jurisdictional determination and related permitting; and another extension for a previously approved variance at…

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