45-49-261.16
Section 45-49-261.16 Construction setbacks. (a) The Mobile County Commission, through the county
planning and zoning commission, shall regulate the construction setback from the centerline
of any state or county public road or highway located within the jurisdiction of the commission.
(b) The provisions of this section do not apply to poles, facilities, structures, water, gas,
sewer, electric, telephone, billboards, or utility lines or other facilities of public utilities.
(c) The construction setback from any state or county public road or highway shall vary according
to the highway functional classifications submitted by the Mobile County Commission and approved
by the Federal Highway Administration for Mobile County. (d) The functional classifications
and the construction setbacks required for each classification are established as follows:
(1) Principal arterials require a 125 foot setback from the centerline of the right-of-way.
(2) Minor arterials require a 100 foot setback from...
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45-41-260.14
Section 45-41-260.14 Appeals. Any party aggrieved by any final judgment or decision of the
commission, within 15 days, may request a review of the record by a five member review board
appointed by the Lee County Commission, one member being the county planning director, one
member being the county public works director, two members who are experts in related fields
of planning, and one public member. This review board may require that the planning commission
reconsider its earlier decision. If such reconsideration is ordered, the planning commission
may reconsider the previous record and any additional material which the planning commission
considers relevant. If upon reconsideration by the planning commission, any party remains
aggrieved by any final judgment of the planning commission, any party, within 30 days thereafter,
may appeal therefrom to circuit court as provided below. If no review by the five member review
board is requested by any party aggrieved by any final judgment or...
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45-44-260.14
Section 45-44-260.14 Appeals. Any party aggrieved by any final judgment or decision of the
planning commission, within 15 days, may request a review of the record by a five-member review
board appointed by the Macon County Commission, one member being the county planning director,
one the county public works director, two experts in related fields of planning, and one other
member. This review board is empowered to require that the planning commission reconsider
its earlier decision. If such reconsideration is ordered, the planning commission may reconsider
the previous record and any additional material which the planning commission considers relevant.
If upon reconsideration by the planning commission, any party remains aggrieved by the final
judgment of the planning commission, within 30 days they may appeal to the circuit court as
provided herein. If no review by the five-member review board is requested by any party aggrieved
by any final judgment or decision of the commission, or...
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45-44-260.09
Section 45-44-260.09 Zoning; grant of power. For the purpose of promoting the health, safety,
morals, convenience, order, prosperity, and general welfare of the county, the planning commission,
with the approval of the county commission, is hereby empowered to divide the portion of the
county within its zoning jurisdiction into districts. The districts shall be of such number,
shape, and area as may be found best suited to carry out the purposes of this article. The
planning commission, with the approval of the county commission, shall provide for standards
within districts relating to the use of the land and the types and kinds of structures that
may be erected in the districts, and all home remodeling or modification in such districts.
Such provision shall be made in accordance with a comprehensive plan for the area involved
and shall be designed to lessen congestion in the streets and highways; to prevent the overcrowding
of land; to avoid undue mixed use of land; to facilitate the...
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45-42-162.18
Section 45-42-162.18 Planning and land use controls. (a) A planning commission shall be established
and shall have authority to institute, under the general laws of the state, land use controls
for the metropolitan-government. The planning commission shall consist of nine members, one
member appointed from each of the nine election districts. (b) The planning commission shall
be the comprehensive planning agency and shall administer a metropolitan-wide planning program
which includes zoning subdivision regulations in accord with municipal laws of the State of
Alabama. Such shall have effect in each service district established. (Act 87-324, p. 442,
§ 19.)...
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45-49-261.04
Section 45-49-261.04 Procedure for adoption and amendment of ordinances and regulations. (a)
The Mobile County Commission may adopt ordinances and regulations as necessary to effect this
part. The ordinances or regulations shall be made in accordance with a master plan and designed
to lessen congestion in the streets, to secure safety from fire, panic, and other dangers,
to promote health and general welfare, to provide adequate light and air, to prevent overcrowding
of land, to avoid undue concentration of population, and to facilitate the adequate provision
of transportation, water, sewerage, schools, parks, and other public requirements. The ordinances
and regulations shall be made with reasonable consideration, among other things, to the character
of the planning jurisdiction and its peculiar suitability for particular uses and with the
view of conserving the value of the buildings and encouraging the most appropriate use of
land throughout the planning jurisdiction. For the...
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11-52-31
Section 11-52-31 Adoption, publication, and certification of subdivision regulations; contents
of regulations; bond. (a) Except where the county commission is responsible for the regulation
of subdivision regulations within the territorial jurisdiction of a municipal planning commission
pursuant to Section 11-52-30, the municipal planning commission shall adopt subdivision regulations
governing the subdivision of land within its jurisdiction. The regulations may provide for
the proper arrangement of streets in relation to other existing or planned streets and to
the master plan, for adequate and convenient open spaces for traffic, utilities, access of
fire-fighting apparatus, recreation, light and air and for the avoidance of congestion of
population, including minimum width and area of lots. The regulations may include provisions
as to the extent to which streets and other ways shall be graded and improved and to which
water and sewer and other utility mains, piping, or other...
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45-17-80
Section 45-17-80 Public law library; librarian and advisory committee; personnel; law library
fund; fee. (a) The governing body of Colbert County, Alabama, by whatever name called, is
hereby authorized to establish and maintain a public law library in the county, and to accomplish
that purpose, may from time to time, expend such public funds of the county, as are not required
by law to be expended for any other purpose or purposes, to provide suitable housing quarters,
furniture, fixtures, and equipment therefor, to keep the same in a good state of maintenance
and repair, and, from time to time, to enlarge, expand, and improve such library, facilities,
and equipment and, from time to time, to provide such books, reports, and periodicals for
the library as are not provided therefor out of the special fund created by this section or
otherwise, and to pay the salaries of an assistant librarian and such other personnel as may
be necessary and proper to operate the same, to the extent that...
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45-2-260.01
Section 45-2-260.01 Regulation of subdivisions; application of certain setback requirements.
(a) The Baldwin County Commission is authorized to regulate the minimum size of lots located
or to be located in subdivisions of land situated outside the corporate limits of any municipality
in the county and is authorized to regulate the planning and construction of all public streets,
public roads, and drainage structures located or to be located in subdivisions of land situated
outside the corporate limits of any municipality in the county, including the power to require
the filing and posting of a reasonable surety bond with the county commission by the developers
of such subdivisions to guarantee the actual construction and installation of approved proposed
public streets, public roads, and drainage structures before the sale or offering for sale
of any lots from such subdivision to the public. The county commission may require the developers
of all proposed subdivisions of lands situated...
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45-49-261.07
Section 45-49-261.07 Board of adjustment. The Mobile County Commission shall provide for the
appointment of a board of adjustment and the regulations and ordinances adopted pursuant to
the authority of this part shall provide that the board of adjustment, in appropriate cases
and subject to appropriate conditions and safeguards, may make special exceptions to the terms
of the ordinances and regulations in harmony with their general purposes and interests and
in accordance with general or specific rules therein contained. The board of adjustment shall
be appointed by the Mobile County Commission. The board of adjustment shall consist of three
members who shall be qualified electors of the planning jurisdiction. The board of adjustment
shall reflect as nearly as practical the diversity of land use in the areas within the jurisdiction
of the commission. No more than one of the members of the board of adjustment shall be directly
engaged in real estate sales, development, or construction...
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