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Birmingham commission and multimodal board debate role, direct staff to rewrite ordinance
Summary
At a Dec. 11 joint workshop, planning staff reviewed the boards history and commissioners and board members debated whether the Multimodal Transportation Board should focus on advocacy, plan updates or design review. The commission directed staff to produce a clearer decision matrix and draft ordinance language; no final vote was taken.
A joint workshop of the Birmingham City Commission and the Multimodal Transportation Board on Dec. 11 focused on whether the advisory board should continue in its current form and how the city should revise the enabling ordinance.
Planning staff opened the meeting by tracing the boards roots: a 2011 Complete Streets resolution followed by a multimodal transportation plan adopted in 2013 and creation of the board in 2014. A staff presentation said the city has since adopted many complete-streets practices and that "we feel we're facing an opportunity here to modernize the city's approach…
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