Selma annexes site of 56-unit apartment complex

The Selma City Council voted to annex property on Citizen’s Parkway for a 56-unit apartment complex.

The site for the Village at Doyle Pointe near the Spectrum store and the car wash on Citizen’s Parkway is on unincorporated property. Because the site in the police jurisdictions of both Selma and Valley Grande, Valley Grande passed a resolution giving Selma a clean shot to bring the property into its city limits. 

After discussing the project at a committee meeting and at the city council meeting on Oct. 28, the Selma City Council unanimously voted to annex the property into the city of Selma.

The complex is being developed by InVictus, a Tampa-based company that has taken on several projects in Selma, including the Lodges on Lincoln.

The city council also agreed to accept two $2 million grants to repave Old Orrville Road and several streets in Old Town. Both grants were awarded to repair damage from the January 2023 tornado.

One grant will pave Old Orrville Road from Highway 219 east to Crescent Hill Road, as well as Whitman Road, Cone Drive, Pine Needle Drive, Vaughan Medical Drive from Highway 22 to Old Orrville Road, North Circle and Chisholm Drive from Highway 22 to Old Orrville Road.

This grant requires a $95,000 match.

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Another grant for $1.99 million will pave streets in Old Town bordered by State Road 22 to the south, Chestnut Boulevard to the north, Washington Street to the east and just beyond King Street to the west.

The grant requires a local match of $102,000.

The city council approved a request for $10,000 from the Selma Fire Department to perform maintenance on a ladder truck.

During the citizen comment portion of the meeting, pastor Coley Chestnut urged the city council to consider the negative effects of alcohol on the community when considering approving alcohol licenses.

Attorney Faya Rose Toure’ brought an armful of confederate flags she said she removed from city-owned cemeteries. While families can decorate family graves with the flags, Toure’ said members of the Daughters of the Confederacy are putting the flags on public parts of the cemetery. She asked the city council to get the Selma police department to enforce the law against placing confederate flags in public areas.

Councilman Sam Randolph led the meeting, which was his last after serving on the Selma City Council for 25 years. Randolph said it was his first and only time to chair the proceedings.