6314 Battles Rd, Fairhope, AL 36532

Tourism Resort District

It is the purpose of this Article in creating a Tourism-Resort District (TR District) to: provide for large acreage under unified control to be planned and developed as a whole; encourage the growth of resort-oriented residential and mixed-use properties around resort properties; provide places for resort-type amenities coupled with proximately located hotel, residential and commercial uses; promote a sustainable future, and encourage and develop connections between environmental quality and economic vitality; provide for a mix of residential types that are designed to form a compact, compatible and stable neighborhood directed toward resort and tourism trade; support the development of a comprehensive pedestrian network with linkages to and between residential and resort areas; promote increased privacy by permitting private roadways within the TR District property; promote the preservation and enhancement of existing natural landscape features and their scenic qualities; create a zoning classification which allows flexibility and creative development concepts that would not be possible through conventional zoning regulations and allow for certain modifications and exemptions from existing subdivision and other regulations; provide places for social interaction and recreation; provide general merchandising convenience destinations for both residents and tourists; and create development opportunities which encourage multiple use of recreational and other resort-type amenities by hotel guests as well as residents within the TR District.