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Nickel Park annexation petition draws caution from planning commission over strip configuration

City of Tuscaloosa Planning and Zoning Commission · October 21, 2025
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Summary

A petition to annex roughly 1 acre near Lake Nickel so a home can be inside city limits and eligible for city schools drew concern from the Planning & Zoning Commission over the proposed strip-style configuration.

Petitioner Jonathan Grammer asked the Planning & Zoning Commission to annex roughly 1 acre of a larger 25-acre holding near Lake Nickel so a house on the parcel would be inside city limits and eligible for City of Tuscaloosa schools.

Grammer and family members described prior small-acre annexations in the area and said the sole purpose of the current request was school eligibility. “I was gonna do the same thing on that 1 up there on that 25 acre parcel,” Grammer said, explaining that a previously subdivided 1-acre parcel on the property had already been annexed years…

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