1258 Harvest Rd, Harvest, AL 35749

Office/Institutional District

This district is intended to provide areas for business and professional offices as well as more intensive office uses such as public buildings, banks, pharmacies (when adjunct to medical facilities), and television and radio station offices (without towers or aerials). It is further intended to provide appropriate land use regulations for major public and private nonprofit institutions serving the public, such as universities, colleges, public schools, hospitals, parks, fairgrounds, and large state, federal and municipal facilities. Since these institutions operate in the public interest and are generally inoffensive in character, this chapter places principal reliance upon the voluntary cooperation of institutional authorities with municipal officials rather than upon detailed land use regulations. It is intended that the conversion of excess institutional land to non-institutional purposes should be preceded by cooperative planning between the planning and development department and the planning commission and should take place under appropriate controls to ensure that the future use of the excess land conforms to the long range development plan. Development and/or redevelopment of these areas are subject to the development plan regulations and review by the planning commission.