Foley City Council agenda April 4, 2022
The Foley City Council will meet on April 4 at 4 p.m. at city hall and during the joint regular/work session, the council will: Have a public hearing and first reading on rezoning two acres owned by FDR Properties from local business to single-family residential. It is located at 21311 County Road 12 South on the north side of the road and east of the Jehovah's Witness Hall. Have a public hearing and first reading to consider the planning commission’s recommendation to approve initial zoning of 1.03 acres owned by Gary Flowers to [...]
National Library Week
National Library Week (April 3- 9, 2022) is a time to celebrate our nation's libraries, library workers' contributions and promote library use and support. The theme for National Library Week 2022 is "Connect With Your Library." Please come connect with the Foley Public Library and view our staff’s BookFace creations, April 4-9. See if you can choose which staff member created each photo. If you are new to the area or have just never been to your local library, now is a good time to come by and get a library card. In Foley, you [...]
Baldwin Pops to perform in Heritage Park
The Baldwin Pops will perform a concert at the pavilion in Heritage Park on Sunday, March 27 at 5:00 p.m. The band will be performing a tribute to Judy Garland. Lawn chairs or blankets suggested, as this is an outdoor venue.
PARKING LOT CLOSURE: Max Griffin Park
The Max Griffin Pool and Skate Park parking lot will be closed starting Monday, March 28th and remain closed for approximately two weeks. McElhenney Construction will be resurfacing the parking lot area and adding additional green space. W. Verbena Avenue will NOT be closed, only the north pool parking lot.
Celebrate Spring at OWA Parks & Resort
(Foley, Alabama) – Spring into fun this April a OWA Parks & Resort! Spring Fling combines a variety of family-friendly events select dates April 2-16th. From photos with Mr. Bunny, to a special Easter Egg Scavenger Hunt, these spring-inspired events are sure to delight guests of all ages. Back for 2022, OWA’s Spring Fling experience will feature A Very Madd Tea Party in Downtown OWA, presented by Seward Studios! This paid teatime experience will spotlight a family-friendly live show with an outrageous cast of characters straight out of Wonderland. Catch them select dates, April 2-16! [...]
Alabama Walking Tours return in April
Foley will be one of more than 20 Alabama towns that will host walking tours Saturday mornings during the month of April. The city touring program is organized by the Alabama Tourism Department and has been in existence for more than 20 years. Alabama is the only state in the nation to hold statewide, simultaneous walking tours. The free walking tours, which primarily highlight historic, downtown areas are scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. each Saturday in April. In Foley, the tours will begin in front of the Welcome Center, located at 104 [...]
Gymnastics Championships Blessed To Be Back
FOLEY, AL – The Alabama State Championships gymnastics meet was scheduled to be held at the Foley Event Center in the spring of 2020, but a global pandemic flipped the script. Now, the meet is back on the books for March 25 – 27 and it has everyone counting their blessings. Alabama USA Gymnastics State Administrative Committee Chair, Mike Holdefer remembers the exact moment when COVID-19 began to impact the sport throughout the state. It was March 12, 2020 and he was blocks away from a facility in Birmingham where they would be holding a [...]
Downtown Foley Seeking Public Input on the Future
Foley Main Street, along with Foley Main Street sponsors, community partners, and the City of Foley are working together to support businesses and to capitalize on business and development opportunities that will help Downtown Foley emerge even stronger in the post-COVID-19 era. Envision Downtown Foley is a special planning initiative that will help us visualize the possibilities and set course toward an exciting future. We are seeking input from the community that will be vital to our continuing efforts to enhance Downtown Foley as a vibrant place to visit, work, live, play, do [...]
Foley City Council Meeting Agenda March 21, 2022
The Foley City Council will meet at 4 p.m. in council chambers on March 21 in a joint work/regular session. During the meeting the council will: Have a public hearing on the repeal of an ordinance for control, collection and disposal of refuse and replace it with a new ordinance. The council will also hear a second reading of the proposed ordinance. Read a proclamation honoring Foley Middle School as the first school in Alabama to win a Lighthouse Certification partly because of the implementation of the “Leader In Me” program. Read a [...]
Building permit numbers continue to grow in Foley
In consecutive years, the Foley Community Development Department set records for issuing building permits for single-family and multi-family developments in the city. And, those numbers are continuing to spike five months into the new 2021-22 fiscal year. “The Planning Commission has approved several site plans for multi-family but few of the new approvals have actually started construction,” Community Development Director Miriam Boone said. “We are in an Opportunity Zone which may be a driver of this use.” Foley is on the traditional fiscal budget year of Oct. 1-Sept. 30 and counts statistics during [...]