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Council rejects rezoning for truck-parking plaza at 1418 22nd Avenue North
Summary
After a public hearing and neighborhood opposition, the Birmingham City Council voted against rezoning 1418 22nd Avenue North from multifamily to light manufacturing for use as a truck-parking plaza; planning staff had identified required buffers and permits but the planning committee and neighbors opposed the change.
The Birmingham City Council voted on Dec. 9 to deny a request to rezone 1418 22nd Avenue North (case ZAC2025-00013) from D-5 multiple-dwelling to I-1 light manufacturing, a step the applicant said was needed to park and store large trucks on a 0.68-acre parcel.
Michael Ward, principal planner in the Department of Planning, Engineering and Permits, told the council the proposal would require the parcel to be resurveyed, a landscape buffer installed outside the fencing shown on the site plan, and city erosion- and civil-construction permits if rezoning were approved. Ward said the property is inside the…
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