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Commission updates multimodal board ordinance, lifts moratorium and directs board to resume meeting
Summary
The commission moved the multimodal transportation board enabling language into planning code, narrowed and modernized its duties to focus on pedestrians, bicyclists and transit users, and voted to lift a six-month moratorium so the board can resume regular meetings.
The Birmingham City Commission adopted an ordinance March 23 that relocates and modernizes the Multimodal Transportation Board's enabling language and lifts the moratorium that had halted board meetings since September 2025.
Planning staff said the ordinance simplifies structure and composition, aligns the board with other visioning boards in the planning chapter of the code, and clarifies purpose and duties so the board can focus on advocacy and study for pedestrians, bicyclists and transit users. The changes were informed by a December 2025 joint workshop with commissioners and board members.
Commissioners asked whether the board's scope would include intersection safety, traffic-calming proposals and transit coordination. Planning staff said staff would bring pipeline capital projects and plans to the board for review and that the police and traffic consultant will continue to manage operational traffic-control device requests. The commission accepted that balance and voted to adopt the ordinance and to lift the moratorium; staff said the board will resume a regular schedule (first-Thursday pattern) and that the planning director will set meeting dates and staff support.
The ordinance passed on a roll-call vote; commissioners asked staff to start board meetings and to propose priorities such as reviewing the multimodal plan, aligning projects with the capital-improvement plan and studying intersection-design options when appropriate.
