Demopolis officials took two steps to increase the supply of housing in the River City this week.
The Demopolis Planning Commission approved the city's first Planned Unit Development at a special called meeting on Sept. 15.
The townhouse development will provide 21 rental units on Maria Avenue in Demopolis. The townhouses will be “upscale” homes of two and three bedrooms.
The townhouses will ring the outside of a curved street that connects to Maria Avenue. The inside of the arcing street will hold a parking lot and a green space adjoining Maria Avenue.
In addition, the Demopolis City Council voted at their Sept. 17 meeting to rezone property just east of the Vowell's grocery store on Highway 80 from business to R-4, the zoning classification for apartments.
Planning Commission Chairman Andy Renner said the rezoning will allow the landowner to offer the property to a developer interested in building apartments.
Demopolis needs as many as 500 housing units, city officials say.
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