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Developers ask Mobile City Council to vacate alley at 6 S. Franklin, request $12,440 fee waiver
Summary
Developers renovating a historic house near 6 South Franklin Street asked the Mobile City Council to vacate a 10-foot, dead-end alley to support a $2.5 million renovation and other block investments, and requested the city waive the approximately $12,440 vacation fee as an incentive and to transfer maintenance responsibility to private owners.
Mike Rogers, representing Lemoine Properties and Cheerful Credit, asked the Mobile City Council on Jan. 6 to vacate an alley adjacent to 6 South Franklin Street to support renovation and restoration of a block that he described as long blighted. "We're undergoing a 2 and a half million dollar renovation right now of that house," Rogers said, and he asked the council to "grant us this vacation" and to not charge a fee for the transfer.
The developers said the alley is a 10-foot, dead-end space used for construction access and that vacating it would let private owners maintain the area and relieve the city…
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