UPDATE: January 9, 2025
UPDATE: Congratulations, everybody. YOU DID IT! WE DID IT together! I received THE call telling me the good news from Councilman Woods right before lunch. My follow-up letter to him says:
Dear Mr. Woods,
I was so happy to receive your good-news today. As I understand it from our conversation, our Park, Lot #5 Block 4 of Highland Park Subdivision at 7151 East Lakeview Dr, Mobile AL 36695 is to be rezoned per the Mobile City Council and legal departments from “R-1” to “R-1 non-conforming” because we are a park. https://www.cityofmobile.org/…/22061010303806Nonconform… Which means that our park activities will now not need to be permitted and that in essence you have grandfathered in our park activities on that parcel of land.
The land being owned by Highland Park Community Association, Inc. requires reservations for parties over 5 people and will require a reservation through the HPca, Inc for individual parties to use the land for a designated period of time after signing the necessary waivers and fees if applicable. We ask the public to please contact our office to make reservations for park use at admin@highlandparkcommunityassociation.com, 251-222-4966 (leave a brief message).
Also, the Mobile City Council and Legal department have agreed to let Highland Park Community Association take out the necessary permit to replace the pavilion roof. We have already scheduled Go Roof from Daphne, AL Jeff Geary to be on site next week for that purpose.
Dear Councilman Woods and City Council Members, with all you have to do, thank you for listening to your constituents regarding our park issue and helping us move forward to getting it cleaned up. We cannot thank you enough. Please see attached 200 signatures of constituents, friends, family members, users of the park, and supporters. We can vouch for all the signatures as verified except the out of country ones. Thank you again for your time. We will never stop working for this watershed.
Highland Park Community Association, Inc
Sincerely,
Sherry Lynn Gros, President
