Council revamps lodging ordinance - Baldwin County NOW

Council revamps lodging ordinance - Baldwin County NOW - A Gulf Coast Information Source for South Alabama: "ORANGE BEACH, Ala. — For months the city of Orange Beach has been toying with new ordinances regarding lodging."

“It was chocked full of inconsistencies and enforcement problems,” Al Bradley, planning commission chairman, said at a Feb. 3 public hearing. “The council has been inundated with zoning text amendments.”

In an attempt to clean up the ordinance Bradley, along with city planner Griffin Powell, City Attorney Wanda Cochran and former Community Development director Jim Lawson have been working to develop cut-and-dry requirements for hotels and condominiums.

Bradley said the problem arose a few years ago when previous council pulled the ordinance for a hotel after the condo-hotel was introduced on the market.