Foley City Council to Weigh Magnolia Walk Carve-Out, Final Rezoning Votes and a New 3-Way Stop Monday
Foley's July 6 agenda opens with public hearings on two rezonings headed for final votes the same afternoon, takes a first step toward removing 23.56 acres from the 99-acre Magnolia Walk East district near OWA, and would add a three-way stop at Albatross and Lakeview that the city engineer recommended for rising foot traffic — alongside nuisance hearings, a FARO Technologies contract and the retirement of police dog Bo.
The Foley City Council meets Monday, July 6, 2026, with an agenda that reaches from the first step in reworking a large tract in the Magnolia Walk East development district to final votes on two rezonings and a new three-way stop recommended for a neighborhood intersection.
The meeting opens with a slate of public hearings — including hearings on both rezonings scheduled for final votes later in the same meeting.
Carving 23.56 acres out of Magnolia Walk East
Agenda excerpt, Jul 6 meeting, page 2.
The council takes up an ordinance, item 26-0342, that would amend Ordinance No. 387-87 to remove approximately 23.56 acres from the Magnolia Walk East Planned Development District — a designation that established comprehensive, custom development standards for the property. Magnolia Walk is a roughly 99-acre mixed-use development tract at the northeast corner of the Foley Beach Express (State Route 161) and Miflin Road (County Road 20), stretching north along the Express past the northern entrance to OWA. The land is owned by SCP/BPG Magnolia Holdings, L.L.C.; city planning commission minutes identify Mobile-based Burton Property Group as the applicant behind the development's site plans, and the council approved an economic development agreement with the ownership group in April 2024. A staff summary says Monday's change would leave roughly 76 acres inside the district — though city documents give slightly different figures for the removal itself, 23.56 acres in the ordinance and 25.36 in the staff summary.
Monday's vote is the first of two the ordinance needs — what the council calls a first reading. And the request is one half of a linked pair: item 26-0343, a companion ordinance also getting its first vote Monday, would rezone the removed land from PDD to B-1A, the city's extended business district classification. The city's staff summary states the connection outright, describing a single request to remove the acreage from the district "and rezone the acreage from PDD to B-1A." Filed as cases PDD26-04 and Z26-09, the two ordinances were part of a broader slate of four Magnolia Walk requests that went before the Foley Planning Commission on June 17, including a minor subdivision creating a four-acre lot at the corner of the Beach Express and Miflin Road. None of the materials say what the owner intends to build on the removed acreage.
Neither measure gets a final vote Monday. The council will separately consider resolutions — items 26-0364 and 26-0365 — setting public hearings on the two changes for a later date the agenda does not specify. Both ordinances must clear those hearings and a second vote before taking effect.
Motter and Vulcan rezonings reach their final step
Two other rezonings are further along. Item 26-0259 would rezone property owned by Harold Motter from R-1A, Residential Single Family, to B-3, Local Business; item 26-0260 would rezone property owned by Vulcan Inc. from M-1, Light Industrial, to B-3. Each covers two parcels, and the Foley Planning Commission has recommended approval of both, according to the items' staff summaries. The council approved each on a first vote June 1, 2026; Monday brings the second and final vote, with the public hearings on both requests — items 26-0275 and 26-0276 — opening the meeting before those votes are cast. The Motter property sits at the northwest corner of Brinks Willis Road and James Road, and the Vulcan property at 339 E. Berry Avenue, according to local reporting when the ordinances received their first votes.
If adopted, the Motter change opens land now restricted to single-family homes to commercial development, while the Vulcan property would move from industrial use toward retail and service-oriented business use. Both ordinances take effect immediately upon adoption and update the city's official zoning map.
A three-way stop at Albatross and Lakeview
Agenda excerpt, Jul 6 meeting, page 6.
A resolution, item 26-0347, would approve installing a three-way stop at the intersection of Albatross Drive and Lakeview Drive. The intersection currently has a stop in only one direction, and the city engineer recommended the change because of increased pedestrian movement in the area, according to the item's staff summary. The item does not state a cost. As a resolution rather than an ordinance, it needs only Monday's single vote; if approved, the signs could go up without further council action.
It sits among a broader slate of street business: a professional services proposal from The Capstone Engineering Group for sidewalk improvements on North Cedar Street from West Peachtree Avenue to Village Square Boulevard (26-0348), and a final vote on an ordinance amending speed limits and traffic controls on Irwin Street between Azalea Avenue and Michigan Avenue.
The rest of the agenda
The opening public hearings also take up four properties the city proposes to declare public nuisances and order cleaned up — 406 E. Myrtle Avenue, 3915 Linton Lane, 618 E. Azalea Avenue and 635 E. Gate Circle — with a separate resolution setting a future hearing for a fifth property at 407 Cedar Court. Also on the agenda: a contract with FARO Technologies running July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2029 (26-0335); the retirement of police dog K9 Bo, who would be declared surplus to his handler (26-0327); and a resolution requesting an Alabama attorney general's opinion on the city's record-retention obligations for audio and video recordings of council meetings.
The council meets Monday, July 6, 2026, at 4 p.m. in the Council Chambers, 407 E. Laurel Avenue.