The Public Projects Committee of the Tuscaloosa City Council met on August 19, 2025, to consider 15 agenda items including permits, contracts, grants, and agreements. All items were approved except item 7 (discussion only) and item 12 (initially tabled, later reconsidered and approved). No public comments were heard.
Review. I would entertain a motion approved. Second. We got a motion and a second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Gotta get used to looking over here. Looking right at Chris. New business item number one, approval of a right-of-way use permit for 5860. Old Montgomery LLC for private storm drainage infrastructure located in the 22nd Avenue right away. Mike, welcome. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. This is a land development permit that's uh under review in our office, and part of the component of storm drainage is gonna be the area that's kind of highlighted in yellow here. For context, that's the post office to the north. The Swayme House is just to the east of this location. Um this is the area where the private storm will be put in our public right away. It connects to a structure that's basically at the corner of uh the intersection there. Uh I know this is gonna be a little bit hard to see detail-wise, but the area highlighted in red is the storm drain that's in the public right-away, and it only serves this one individual parcel. Which one individual parcel? The uh the development development of this is a single track of light. The existing building stays, they're gonna renovate it. It's the one that looks like the old boarders house. Right, I know, and then uh the three town homes right here is new. So the storm sewer that collects this private water here will enter the public right-of-way and go to our system at the intersection Act 14. And this is just a mechanism to establish ownership and maintenance. It'd be an infrastructure that we don't maintain. What's the alternative? And I'm I'm asking. Certainly, certainly that was a very sensitive issue over my district. Okay, so the alternative would be that uh we would own and maintain it. So the storm sewer is there already. No, it's not. It's gonna be new improvements that serve just approved to meet the three town homes and then built facing west on 22nd. Yeah on 22nd, yes, sir. Okay, and so we're just allowing somebody else to maintain a storm sewer. Yeah, and that that's not uncommon for private development. It's a little unusual that it's in our public right-of-way. Um doesn't happen all that often. What happens if they don't maintain? Well, we'll we'll fix it and send them a bill. Yeah, but I mean it's otherwise they'll be up in their homes. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Um what any other thoughts or education I hadn't had dealt with this? Uh no, sir, not really. Uh, I don't think you'll see something like this very often. Uh if you remember the last one I brought to you was but it has no impact on the SWAM property. No, sir, none whatsoever. Okay, no.