City moves forward with traffic study agreement
Mountain Brook residents are most concerned with the maintenance of streets and traffic congestion, according to a recent study, and now the city is taking steps to address it.
The city entered an agreement with the Regional Planning Commission of Greater Birmingham (RPCGB) to conduct a city-wide traffic study at its Aug. 11 meeting.
The study, conducted by Skipper Consulting, will ultimately determine eight intersection project locations to conduct low-cost improvements. The city is hoping to secure an Advance Planning Programming & Logical Engineering (APPLE) grant to pay for $40,000 of the approximately $45,000 project.
At some point RPCGB will hold a public involvement meeting to solicit public input on the intersections.
The council also:
- Set a public hearing on Sept. 8 to consider amending the master development plan for The Park at Overton, an 18-lot housing development to be built off Overton. Road adjacent to Knesseth Israel Congregation. The amendment would allow for a patio cover on Lot 5, 3762 Village Lane, to be 12 feet from the rear property line in lieu of the required 15 feet.
- Set a public hearing on Sept. 8 to consider amending the master development plan for Pilgrim Place, a development off Montclair Road just east of Erskine Ramsay Park that currently has two houses. The new owner is looking to resurvey, change set backs, tweak lot lines and change the entrance.
- Reappointed Rob Walker to the Villages Design Review Committee.
- Reappointed Richard Simonton to the Board of Zoning Adjustment.
- Authorized allocating $2,000 of state funding earmarked for tourism to the Chamber of Commerce to use for marketing.
The next council meeting will be Monday, Aug. 25 at 7 p.m. in the Council Chamber of City Hall.