Independent local reporting from the Eastern Shore
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The Planning Commission unanimously recommended that the City Council approve a site plan for a Foosackly's chicken-finger restaurant and a Just Chillin' ice cream shop on Lot 4 of the Encounter development at Highway 181. The plan revives an approval that had lapsed since 2025.
Lieb Engineering wants to bond — rather than build — the turn lanes, sidewalks, stormwater pond and landscape buffer required at the Hwy 104/181 gas-station site, deferring the work until a future tenant breaks ground. Planning staff recommended denying the subdivision and all three subdivision waivers.
A request to rezone two adjacent lots on Northrop Avenue from low-density multi-family residential to a business and professional district was on the Fairhope Planning Commission's June 1 agenda for a public hearing. The applicant is Thompson Engineering, on behalf of Gulf Health Hospitals.
