Contracts to get work started on the Eli Lilly project and North Village Town Center are on tonight's agenda. Photo: Derek Lacey/Axios
It's that time of the every-other-week again: Huntsville City Council meets tonight.
Why it matters: The council's got a full agenda for its 5:30pm meeting, centered mostly around land use, development and infrastructure.
What's inside: The council will hold public hearings on rezoning around 200 acres in three motions, including 73.44 acres near the I-565/Greenbrier Road interchange set to be zoned for a commercial industrial park.
Another 36.5 acres on Martin Road is up for a rezoning to a residential district and 90.5 acres from 18 separate areas in various single-family neighborhoods to Residence 1-A and Residence 2 districts.
The city will also schedule a hearing on updating its ordinances to lump hemp products in with its rules around alcoholic beverages.
Zoom in: A $1.1 million contract with Volkert is on the agenda, for the firm to engineer and construct the Holmes Avenue Complete Street project, aiming to make multiple safety and pedestrian improvements to the street across about 3.25 miles from Spragins Avenue to Sparkman Drive.
Contracts with UES Professional Solutions for geotechnical services are set to advance two of the city's biggest developments: one for $31,600 for Project Delaney (Eli Lilly) and a $59,380 contract for the North Village Town Center project.
The city will also decide on an agreement with Front Row Huntsville, which just launched pre-leasing, for a $125,000 agreement for Huntsville to lease public parking space at the development.
Also on the agenda is a $175,000 contract with Ivaldi Engineering to convert Merrimack Soccer Fields 1 and 2, near the intersection of Drake Avenue and Triana Blvd., to artificial turf.
