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By NOAH WORTHAM | Managing Editor

ALABASTER – Alabaster is requesting feedback from citizens on what they want to see from the city in the next few years as part of its next comprehensive plan.

The city of Alabaster will hold a meeting for the draft of the Blueprint Alabaster Comprehensive Plan on Tuesday, March 4 from 6-7 p.m. at City Hall. The city is inviting residents to come and voice their feedback and listen to a presentation.

“This is for our new city comprehensive plan that we’ve been working on for more than a year with the Regional Planning Commission of Greater Birmingham,” Alabaster Public Relations Manager Neal Wagner said. “We commissioned them to help us really update the comprehensive plan that will guide the city for the next five-plus years once it gets enacted.”

The Blueprint Alabaster Comprehensive Plan will serve as the framework to develop specific strategies and actions that will address issues regarding land use, future growth and development, transportation, housing and infrastructure and public services.

“It really touches everything, including city growth, land use and future plans,” Wagner said. “It’s really a kind of blueprint for actions that we’ll take over the next several years as far growing in a positive and smart way for the city.”

The last time the city formed a comprehensive plan was in March of 2016 when it adopted the Alabaster Forward plan. According to Wagner, most of the items that were outlined have now been completed.

The city has been working with the Regional Planning Commission of the Greater Birmingham Area on the new plan and has been receiving input from a variety of community stakeholders to help in creating a draft.

A public input meeting on the new plan was previously held in March 2024 where attendees offered input at information boards and on drawings that were placed on tables.

The draft of the new comprehensive plan will be presented during the meeting on March 4 where residents can offer their feedback in person.

“During the meeting, the Regional Planning Commission is going to have a presentation where they are going to go over the draft plan and allow people to look at it and then we’ll take written comments and things like that from the people who were there,” Wagner said.

The draft of the plan will also be available on Blueprintalabaster.com after the meeting for a public review period after meeting for those unable to attend.

“This is definitely not the final plan,” Wagner said. “We want to hear what people think and any feedback they have that way we can tweak the plan. And eventually, the council will look at approving the final plan once all that feedback has been taken into account.”