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Planning commission denies Cookout sidewalk waiver at Schillinger Road, cites walkability goals

City of Mobile Planning Commission · December 19, 2025
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Summary

The City of Mobile Planning Commission voted Dec. 18 to deny Cookout’s request to waive sidewalk construction at 775 Schillinger Road South, with commissioners citing corridor walkability goals and future capital-improvement priorities as reasons for denial.

The Planning Commission denied a sidewalk-waiver request from Cookout for a redevelopment at 775 Schillinger Road South on Dec. 18.

Michael Hicks, representing Cookout, asked the commission to waive sidewalk construction because the site’s frontage contains storm-drain structures, a topographic bowl, traffic-signal poles and other utilities that complicate constructing a contiguous sidewalk…

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