) - It’s 27-plus acres of prime real estate. The City encouraging the Mobile Planning Commission to approve a Master Plan as well as creating a new special district when it comes to zoning for the Mobile Civic Center site.
“The reason for doing it -- for one perspective would be -- if I’m a developer and I look at the zoning as it exists today -- I think there’s a blank canvas there -- so I can go build anything. And we’ve seen that -- developers come in and say I can do this that and the other -- and really by the time they have the public hearings and really by the time they go through a zoning process -- they realize they have wasted a lot of time,” said Mayor Stimpson.
While Populous is a world-class architectural firm -- some argue Populous does not have the expertise in form-based code planning -- which the rest of downtown has been developed under.