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Birmingham planning board delays decision on Woodward mixed‑use project after contentious parking debate
Summary
The planning board postponed preliminary review of a proposed 9–10‑story mixed‑use building at Woodward and Maple to May 13 after weeks of debate over a requested parking waiver and whether the developer’s shared‑parking plan would provide the ordinance’s required 198 public spaces.
The Birmingham Planning Board on April 22 postponed a preliminary site‑plan review for 34952 Woodward and 690 East Maple after lengthy debate about parking requirements tied to bonus building height.
The board’s discussion centered on a city zoning provision that grants bonus stories in the Triangle District only if an applicant provides an additional 198 public parking spaces. Planning Director Nick Dupuy told the board the ordinance treats the 198 spaces as separate from the building’s use‑required parking, and that the project’s mix of use‑required parking (344 spaces) plus the 198 public spaces would total 542 spaces under a plain‑language reading of the code. The applicant proposes 397 formal parking spaces plus roughly 25 compact/tandem stalls (the applicant and its traffic engineers count 422 including compact spaces).
Why it matters: the developer is seeking bonus floors that add…
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