Meetings

Board of Zoning Adjustments & Appeal

  • 5: 30 p.m.
  • Third Thursday of each month, as necessary
  • Council Chambers
    Public Safety Building
    1111 Broad St.
    Phenix City, AL 36867

Note: Cases must be filed 21 days prior to meeting. Should there be no cases filed for any month, the meeting shall be deemed cancelled. For verification of meeting or agenda, please call 334-448-2740.

Members

  • Richard Coreno, Chairman
  • Roderick Howard, Vice-Chairman
  • Debbie Harris (Secretary)
  • Ralph Morris
  • Steve Jourdan
  • Rudolph Martin (First Alternate)
  • Nancy Jones (Second Alternate)

A five-person, regular-member board, plus two supernumerary members, is comprised of members appointed by the Phenix City Council and have each been elected to serve a three-year term. All members of the board are citizens and residents of Phenix City.

Duties & Responsibilities

The Board of Zoning Adjustments and Appeals, in appropriate cases and subject to appropriate conditions and safeguards, shall have the powers to hear and decide on Interpretation of Boundaries, Appeals, Variances, and Special Exceptions, acting under the authority of the Phenix City Zoning Ordinance.

Zoning

The Building Department will be glad to assist you in finding the correct zoning of a piece of property. Please provide a street address and/or tax map number. It would be more helpful if you could fax a copy of the lot in question to 334-448-2742, so they can therefore provide you with the proper setback and other requirements of the zone. View a copy of the Phenix City Zoning Ordinance.

Special Exception Permits

In addition to permitted uses, there are other uses which may be necessary or desirable to allow on certain locations in certain districts, but because of their actual or potential impact on neighboring uses need to be carefully regulated with respect to their location. Such uses, on account of their peculiar location need or the nature of the service offered, may have to be established in a district in which they cannot be reasonably allowed as a permitted use. Such uses are generally specified in the district requirements under “Uses Permitted on Appeal.” These uses are called “special use.” Such uses require special permission granted by the Board of Zoning Adjustments and Appeals. These uses must be in harmony with the intent and purpose of the neighborhood in which it is to be located.
Special Exception Permit Application

Variances

Any property owner may file an application for a variance from the requirements of the Zoning Ordinance where it is claimed that, by reason of exceptional narrowness, shallowness, or shape or by reason of other exceptional topographic conditions, or other extraordinary and exceptional situations or conditions of such piece of property existing at the time of the adoption of the ordinance, the strict application and literal enforcement of the provisions of the Zoning Ordinance would result in peculiar, exception, undue, and unnecessary hardship upon such owner.
Application for Variance