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Birmingham leaders debate future role of Multimodal Transportation Board; staff to rewrite ordinance
Summary
City planning staff and board members told a joint Dec. 11 workshop that the Multimodal Transportation Board should remain but its scope and processes need clearer limits; commissioners urged a public-facing decision matrix, better data and a prioritized action list before resuming regular board business.
BIRMINGHAM, Dec. 11, 2025 — City planning staff told a joint meeting of the Birmingham City Commission and the Multimodal Transportation Board that it is time to "modernize the city's approach to multimodal transportation planning" and to reconsider the board's role, sparking a wide-ranging discussion about whether the board should focus on visioning, neighborhood advocacy or technical review.
Staff recounted the board's origins in a 2011 "complete streets" resolution, the adoption of a multimodal plan in 2013 and the creation of the current advisory board in 2014. The staff presentation said the enabling language now lives in Chapter 110 of the Birmingham Code of Ordinances and that some multimodal goals have been implemented administratively without board action.
"We feel we're facing an opportunity here to modernize the city's approach to multimodal transportation planning," a member of the planning staff said, framing the meeting as the next step in producing clearer ordinance language and a smoother process…
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