The Tuscaloosa City Council convened on January 13, 2026, to address a mix of code enforcement condemnations, road vacations, licensing requests, and administrative authorizations. The meeting featured significant discussion on deteriorating properties, where the council authorized condemnation actions for multiple blighted sites while sparing one property owner to complete repairs. Other agenda items included a street vacation for a non-functional right-of-way, a request for a special event alcohol license, and the introduction of three zoning amendments. The session also covered upcoming committee reassignments following the upcoming election, upcoming meetings with the University of Alabama administration, and administrative deadlines for campaign finance and ethics filings.
Okay. Notes that he gave me. Alrighty. We understand you don't really know much about this. You know, I just I just wrapped the ore. Um all right. So the first one you've got is 2646 25th Street. That is in Council District 2. It's over next to Elizabeth Baptist. Um with that one, Mr. Williams has wrapped his phone call and he's here to save me. Sorry about that. No problem. I think it's just we're on the first slide. All right, so this is 2646 25th Street. They've made all the exterior repairs. The only thing they lack is painting. Uh it's my suggestion we go ahead and just cut them loose and let them finish their repairs through their uh permit on this one. Is that a mobile home? No, sir, it's a house. Okay. All right. Next one's that right. Yes, we did it. 2327 Jack Warner Parkway. This is old house garage. He fixed the holes in the roof. Uh he did fix the garage door there, and he locked up the other big door on the other part of the building. Uh, but the front door, if we go back to the front first slide, so you can see it's open to the public. And he also has not cleaned up anything on the outside. Uh I still think at that location that that just looks really bad. I mean, I only do I think it needs to be. You know, he he said he was gonna have it completely fixed uh within the 30 days. Uh I think it needs to come down. I mean, I don't see uh from what I understand. I don't see this building fitting the uh framework for that part of the city either. So that's too much working in that area to let that just sit there in my opinion. Virgil, can you remind us of the what there are two buildings involved in this parcel? Uh there was a building, and then the other part part was a slab the slab. Yeah, we see we we condemned the slab, which was the property next door, the old Jerry's cleaner's property. Do you think he should have already had been finished? Uh no, well, he hasn't removed the slab yet. I said you think he should have he should have been. Oh, he had uh yes, he has the resources to have finished this, and he didn't. He's he's done it with this property ever since we've been dealing with it. How long have you been dealing with this? Just out of memory. Since before the um upgrades to Jack Warner Parkway. Oh, okay. That's so we just yes.