MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – The Mobile Planning Commission on Thursday rejected a proposed zoning change that could eventually have led to an increase in the number of mobile homes in a development off Dauphin Island Parkway.
The zoning change before the commission sounded minor. It would have lifted a requirement that Sea Pines Mobile Home Park have a fence and buffer of vegetation separating it from neighboring single-family houses. But it would have paved the way for the property’s owner to seek something that neighbors found much more alarming – the removal of a 133-unit cap that the city set in 2022.
Originally, Tenacious 4 LLC sought an increase to 447 units, the number of lots already wired for utilities. A representative of the company on Thursday offered to reduce that by 20 percent, down to 357…