The Town of Sylvania now has in place a new Zoning Ordinance designed to help guide future development of the municipality.
“We want our town to grow,” said Mayor Terry McClendon. “We’re looking to attract anything and everything that’s revenue based.”
He called the new Zoning Ordinance developed with TARCOG a tool to help attract new businesses, especially along Alabama Highway 75.
“All the other towns around us have done it and are benefitting and we made history by doing this,” McClendon said. “It’s a good thing for our future generations.”
TARCOG worked with Mayor McClendon and other town leaders and residents for a year holding meetings and discussions to determine what type or ordinance the town needed and wanted to help spur commercial development along its section of Alabama Highway 75.
At its Tuesday, June 17, town council meeting, TARCOG Planning and Economic Development Director Lee Terry presented the final copy of the new ordinance which was unanimously adopted by the mayor and Council Members Matthew Gant, Claude Callaham, Denny Smith, Gary Ferguson and Larry Bailey.
Terry said multiple meetings were held with the town’s planning commission as well as several public input sessions and consultations with the town council to create the ordinance.
