The Tuscaloosa City Council met on February 10, 2026, beginning at 7:32 PM, to address zoning changes, liquor license applications, an ALM conference delegation, and a consent agenda containing contracts and budget amendments. The meeting involved staff presentations, council discussion, and votes on several items.
That's right. Valentine's Day the 14th. All right. Is there a motion we approve the minutes? So moved. Motion second all in favor say aye. All right. All right. Minutes approved. Zach. You're up first. All right. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. So this first one, I've got three rezonings for you, but the first two coincide with each other. Um, so it's best to present those together. So these first ones are for the McGrife's Ferry Land LLC on New Watermelon Road. So this is where that double convenience store gas station kind of thing happened north um north of the river, if you all recall that. Norman Crowe's service station. Yes, yes, sir. So this is a good this is a good thing. So there's only going to be one gas station now. Um as part of that the previous rezoning. So you can see here that these two rezonings, the reason that they're doing this is because they went through the process with their old site plan to rezone specific boundaries based off of what the uses would be. So that brown area is MFR. So that's where an apartment complex is gonna go, and then the GC is where like more office use is gonna go. And so since they've reconfigured the boundaries to align or to create a new site plan, they need to just switch, basically just switch those two rezonings. So who got who's the one service station? I'm totally confused. I am is it Rick Mark and Rick? Yes, so Rick is gonna have see that lot number two in that corner. He's gonna have his gas station. He's gonna have his gas station and convenience store on the corner right there. Okay. There was gonna be another one just north of that. But they've swapped some land to where it to make it work out. So the plots now have more land over in the you know the top portion. And so they've been able to kind of reconfigure their area where you pull in that down in the bottom middle area is um an apartment complex that was being proposed, and then all kind of up north on the northern section is more like office um kind of area. And so when they went through the rezoning initially, they had set their boundaries based off of an old site plan. But now that they've not done the now that they're not doing the convenient the second convenience store, they're getting rid of that, they've redone their site plan so that they can you know add some more commercial space and things like that, get rid of the additional gas station. Right, exactly. And so you said something about apartments, yeah. So a portion of so that that bottom building in the middle there, that's always been um an apartment, like an apartment building that they were gonna build. So that's not changing, it's just the boundaries need to change to reflect the change in the design of the overall development. So they just did a land swap kind of exactly. They did a land swap, and through that land swap, they now have to get the zoning right, and so it's literally just you see that blue area, that blue area currently is zone GC, general commercial, based off of the old site plan. But as you can see, the apartment complex is now encroaching into that GC area, so they're trying to get all of that to be MFR, the correct zoning district for that apartment complex, and then in turn the northern portion, that red part, currently a zone MFR, they want to go to GC. So it's really just kind of switching it around so that the apartment is all on the MFR and the office space retail is all in the GC zoning district. Okay, and where are the residents? I mean, this was the residents have fractious.