Public Safety Committee

District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4 District 5 District 6 District 7 Joseph Eatmon, Sr. Raevan Howard Norman Crow Lee Busby Kip Tyner John Faile Cassius Lanier Chairperson Alternate Vice Chairperson Member Council Public Safety Committee Meeting Agenda Tuesday, October 14, 2025, Daugherty Conference Room 3:30 p.m. TOPIC PRESENTER SUPPORTING MATERIAL Approval of Minutes NEW BUSINESS 1. Resolution to temporarily expand the Downtown Entertainment Jimbo Woodson 2 District hours for Wednesday, October 29, 2025 2. Resolution to temporarily expand the Downtown Entertainment Jimbo Woodson 3 District hours for Thursday, December, 4, 2025 3. Ordinance amending Section 22-36 of the Code of Tuscaloosa Mike Gardiner 4-10 Brett Blackburn 4. On-Premises Restaurant Retail Liquor License: Visionary Venture Antonius Mills Group, LLC dba JR Crickets, 1130 University Blvd. Ste B6 ADJOURN 1 APPROVED AS TO FORM Prepared By: JPW Requested: Pub. Safety Date: 10/14/24 Council Presentation: 10/21/24 Office of the City Attorney Suspension of Rules: No RESOLUTION RESOLUTION TO TEMPORARILY EXPAND THE DOWNTOWN ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT HOURS FOR WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2025 (OCA-25-1368) WHEREAS, THE CITY COUNCIL OF TUSCALOOSA created the Downtown Entertainment District on February 20th, 2018 for that period of time Friday and Saturday from 11:00 a.m. until 11:00 p.m. and on Sunday from 12:00 noon until 9:30 p.m. WHEREAS, THE CITY COUNCIL OF TUSCALOOSA now desires to temporarily expand the Downtown Entertainment District hours to include Wednesday, October 29, 2025, from 7:00 p.m. until 11:00 p.m. due to the Copper Top Terror Night which plans to feature an outdoor Halloween movie within the permitted area on 23rd Avenue. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF TUSCALOOSA as follows: That the Downtown Entertainment District hours are hereby temporarily expanded to include Wednesday, October 29, 2025, from 7:00 p.m. until 11:00 p.m. and then return to regular hours. FUNDING REQUIRED: Yes No COUNCIL ACTION Resolution Ordinance Introduced Passed 2nd Reading Unanimous Failed Tabled By: Amended Chief Finance Officer Comments: 2 APPROVED AS TO FORM Prepared By: JPW Requested: Pub. Safety Date: 10/14/24 Council Presentation: 10/21/24 Office of the City Attorney Suspension of Rules: No RESOLUTION RESOLUTION TO TEMPORARILY EXPAND THE DOWNTOWN ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT HOURS FOR THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2025 (OCA-25-1338) WHEREAS, THE CITY COUNCIL OF TUSCALOOSA created the Downtown Entertainment District on February 20th, 2018 for that period of time Friday and Saturday from 11:00 a.m. until 11:00 p.m. and on Sunday from 12:00 noon until 9:30 p.m. WHEREAS, THE CITY COUNCIL OF TUSCALOOSA now desires to temporarily expand the Downtown Entertainment District hours to include Thursday, December 4, 2025, from 4:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. due to the Retail Trail sponsored by The Tuscaloosa Downtown Merchants Association at Government Plaza. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF TUSCALOOSA as follows: That the Downtown Entertainment District hours are hereby temporarily expanded to include Thursday, December 4, 2025, from 4:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. and then return to regular hours. FUNDING REQUIRED: Yes No COUNCIL ACTION Resolution Ordinance Introduced Passed 2nd Reading Unanimous Failed Tabled By: Amended Chief Finance Officer Comments: 3 APPROVED AS TO FORM Prepared By: JPW/rd Requested: Pub. Safety Date:10/14/2025 Council Presentation on: 10/02/2025 Office of the City Attorney Suspension of Rules: No ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 22-36 OF THE CODE OF TUSCALOOSA (OCA-25-1291) BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF TUSCALOOSA that Section 22-36 of the Code of Tuscaloosa be and is hereby amended to read as follows: “Sec. 22-36. Speed limits established. (a) Generally. The following subsections shall establish speed limits for the streets and highways indicated. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a vehicle on a street or portion thereof at a speed in excess of the speed limit established for such street. (b) Thirty mile per hour speed limits. A speed limit of thirty (30) miles per hour is hereby established for the following streets: (1) 21st Avenue from Jack Warner Parkway to University Boulevard. (2) 21st Avenue from 9th Street to Queen City Avenue. (3) University Boulevard from 21st Avenue to Reed Street. (4) Paul W. Bryant Drive from Greensboro Avenue to 12th Avenue. (5) Crescent Ridge Road East from University Boulevard East to Vassie Drive. (6) Fosters Ferry Road from 21st Street to 29th Street. (7) Fosters Ferry Road from 15th Street to 21st Street. (8) Queen City Avenue from 21st Avenue to Hargrove Road. (9) Elm Street from Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard to 26th Street. (10) 29th Street from Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard to Herman Avenue. (11) Kicker Road from Veterans Memorial Parkway to 1st Street N.E. (12) 26th Avenue East/Claymont Parkway from University Boulevard East to Veterans Memorial Parkway. (13) Woodland Road from Loop Road to Hargrove Road East. 4  (14) Academy Drive from McFarland Boulevard North (U.S. Highway 82) to Rice Valley Road North. (c) Thirty-five mile per hour speed limits. A speed limit of thirty-five (35) miles per hours is hereby established for the following streets: (1) 10th Avenue from 15th Street to Paul W. Bryant Drive. (2) Greensboro Avenue from 11th Street to 24th Street. (3) Hackberry Lane from Hargrove Road to Paul W. Bryant Drive. (4) University Boulevard/University Boulevard East from 2nd Avenue to Central Highlands. (5) University Boulevard East from Kicker Road viaduct to 30th Avenue East. (6) Hargrove Road from 15th Avenue to Hackberry Lane. (7) Campus Drive from Peter Bryce Boulevard to Helen Keller Boulevard. (8) Jack Warner Parkway from 300 feet west of 21st Avenue to 28th Avenue. (9) Paul W. Bryant Drive from Hackberry Lane to University Boulevard East. (10) Loop Road from Hargrove Road East to Veterans Memorial Parkway. (11) 25th Avenue from 15th Street to 12th Street. (12) 36th Avenue East from Skyland Boulevard East (U.S. Highway 11) to Rainbow Drive. (13) Kicker Road from 15th Street East to Hargrove Road East. (14) James I Harrison Jr. Parkway East from McFarland Boulevard East (U.S. Highway 82) to Hargrove Road East. (15) 21st Street from Culver Road (U.S. Highway 43) to Fosters Ferry Road. (16) 29th Street from Fosters Ferry Road to Herman Avenue. (17) Kauloosa Avenue from 31st Street 35th Street. (18) Dr. Ed Hillard Drive from Paul W. Bryant Drive to 15th Street East. (19) Stillman Boulevard from Greensboro Avenue (Alabama Highway 215) to 15th Street. (20) Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard from 5th Street to 29th Street. (21) Johnson Road from east corporate limits to Sanders Ferry Road. 5  (22) Watermelon Road from Snows Mill Avenue to McFarland Boulevard North (U.S. Highway 82). (23) 39th Avenue East from University Boulevard East to Veterans Memorial Parkway. (24) 25th Avenue East from University Boulevard East to 2nd Street East. (25) 26th Avenue East from Skyland Boulevard East (U.S. Highway 11) to 39th Street East. (26) Julia Tutwiler Drive from Helen Keller Boulevard to McFarland Boulevard (U.S. Highway 82). (27) McWrights Ferry Road from New Watermelon Road to south corporate limits. (28) Palisades Drive from Hargrove Road East to Skyland Boulevard East (U.S. 11). (29) 31st Street from Culver Road (U.S. 43) to Sanders Ferry Road. (30) 20th Avenue N.E. (d) Forty mile per hour speed limits. A speed limit of forty (40) miles per hour is hereby established for the following streets: (1) Greensboro Avenue (Alabama Highway 215) from 24th Street to James I Harrison Jr. Parkway. (2) Snows Mills Avenue from Rice Mine Road North to north corporate limits. (3) Crescent Ridge Road East from Vassie Drive to north corporate limits. (4) Northridge Road from Rice Mine Road N.E. to 400 feet north of the north property line of Verner Elementary School. (5) Hargrove Road/Hargrove Road East from Hackberry Lane to Oxford Gate Drive. (6) James I Harrison Jr. Parkway/James I Harrison Jr. Parkway East from Greensboro Avenue (Alabama Highway 215) to McFarland Boulevard East (U.S. Highway 82). (7) Rice Valley Road North from Northridge Road to west corporate limits. (8) Reserved. (9) Kicker Road from 1st Street N.E. to 25th Avenue East. (10) 25th Avenue East from 2nd Street East to Jack Warner Parkway. 6  11) Old Watermelon Road from New Watermelon Road to Mariner's Cove Dead End. (12) Holt Road Northeast from Jack Warner Parkway Northeast to north corporate limits. (13) Helen Keller Boulevard from Jack Warner Parkway Northeast to University Boulevard East (14) Bear Creek Cutoff Road from Old Montgomery Highway (Alabama Highway 215) to Bear Creek Road. (15) University Boulevard East from Central Highlands to Kicker Road viaduct. (e) Forty-five mile per hour speed limits. A speed limit of forty-five (45) miles per hours is hereby established for the following streets: (1) Lurleen B. Wallace Boulevard (U.S. Highway 43) from 12th Street to University. (2) I-359 from 13th Street to 12th Street. (3) University Boulevard East from 30th Avenue East to Skyland Boulevard East (U.S. Highway 11). (4) Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard from 29th Street to south corporate limits. (5) Greensboro Avenue (Alabama Highway 215) from James I Harrison Jr. Parkway to Skyland Boulevard (U.S. Highway 11). (6) Old Montgomery Highway (Alabama Highway 215) from Skyland Boulevard (U.S. Highway 11) to 51st Street. (7) Fosters Ferry Road from 29th Street to Joe Mallasham Parkway. (8) Old Birmingham Highway (Alabama Highway 216) from 53rd Avenue East to University Boulevard East (Alabama Highway 215). (9) Culver Road (U.S. Highway 43) from Westlee Drive to Stillman Boulevard. (10) Stillman Boulevard (U.S. Highway 43) from Culver Road to Fosters Ferry Road. (11) 15th Street (U.S. Highway 43) from Fosters Ferry Road to I-359. (12) 15th Street/15th Street East/Veterans Memorial Parkway from I- 359 to University Boulevard East (Alabama Highway 215). (13) Sanders Ferry Road from Johnson Road to south corporate limits. (14) Rice Mine Road North/Rice Mine Road Northeast from Northport/Tuscaloosa corporate limits to Watermelon Road. 7 (15) Watermelon Road from Rice Mine Road Northeast to south corporate limits. (16) New Watermelon Road from Rice Mine Road Northeast to five hundred (500) feet north of McWrights Ferry Road. (17) Robert Cardinal Airport Road from Airport Cutoff Road (64th Avenue) to Airport Terminal. (18) Industrial Park Road from Robert Cardinal Airport Road to Commerce Drive. (19) Commerce Drive from Robert Cardinal Airport Road to Industrial Park Road. (20) 35th Street from Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard to Greensboro Avenue (Alabama Highway 215). (21) 10th Avenue from Greensboro Avenue (Alabama Highway 215) to 15th Street. (22) Kauloosa Avenue from 35th Street to Alabama Highway 69 South. (23) Skyland Boulevard (U.S. Highway 11) from Alabama Highway 69 South to 18th Avenue East. (24) Skyland Boulevard East (U.S. Highway 11) from Southern Railroad viaduct (Cottondale) to University Boulevard East (Alabama Highway 215). (25) University Boulevard East (U.S. Highway 11) from Skyland Boulevard East (U.S. Highway 11) to Prudes Mill Road. (26) JVC Road from Skyland Boulevard East (U.S. Highway 11) to Buttermilk Road. (27) Buttermilk Road from north corporate limit to I-20/59 and from Bradford Boulevard to south corporate limits. (28) Trevor S. Phillips Avenue from 35th Street to 39th Street. (29) Old Greensboro Road from Mimosa Park Road to south corporate limits. (30) Jack Warner Parkway from three hundred (300) feet west of 21st Avenue to Queen City Avenue. (31) Hargrove Road East from Oxford Gate Drive to south corporate limits. (32) Ol' Colony Road from Watermelon Road to Rice Mine Road Northeast. (33) New Watermelon Road from Lake Nicol Road to Old Watermelon Road. 8  (34) Lake Nicol Road from New Watermelon Road to east corporate limits. (35) Watermelon Road from New Watermelon Road to east corporate limits. (36) Boone Boulevard from north corporate limits to dead end. (37) Northridge Road from four hundred (400) feet north of the north property line of Verner Elementary School to Ol' Colony Road. (f) Fifty mile per hour speed limit. A speed limit of fifty (50) miles per hour is hereby established for the following streets: (1) Robert Cardinal Airport Road from east corporate limits to Airport Cutoff Road (64th Avenue). (2) Jack Warner Parkway/Jack Warner Parkway Northeast from Queen City Avenue to one thousand eight hundred (1,800) feet east of Helen Keller Boulevard. (3) Old Birmingham Highway (Alabama Highway 215) from 53rd Avenue East to east corporate limits. (4) New Watermelon Road from five hundred (500) feet north of McWrights Ferry Road to Lake Nicol Road. (5) Northridge Road from four hundred (400) feet north of the north property line of Verner Elementary School to Ol' Colony Road. (6) McFarland Boulevard (U.S. Highway 82) from Crestline Drive to Northport/Tuscaloosa corporate limits. (g) Fifty-five mile per hour speed limit. A speed limit of fifty-five (55) miles per hour is hereby established for the following streets: (1) I-359 from 15th Street to 13th Street. (2) Lurleen B. Wallace Boulevard (U.S. Highway 43) from University Boulevard to Northport/Tuscaloosa city limits. (3) Old Montgomery Highway (Alabama Highway 215) from 51st Street to McFarland Boulevard East (U.S. Highway 82). (4) McFarland Boulevard East (U.S. Highway 82) from Crestline Drive to south corporate limits. (5) Skyland Boulevard East (U.S. Highway 11) from 18th Avenue East to Southern Railroad viaduct (Cottondale). (6) University Boulevard East (U.S. Highway 11) from Prudes Mill Road (Cottondale) to east corporate limits. (7) Jack Warner Parkway Northeast from 1,800 feet east of Helen Keller Boulevard to east corporate limits. 9  (8) Alabama Highway 69 South from Junction I-59/20 to south corporate limits. (9) Culver Road (U.S. 43) from south corporate limits to Westlee Drive. (10) Joe Mallasham Parkway (south of the Black Warrior River) from the south corporate limits to the north corporate limits. (11) Buttermilk Road from I-20/59 to Bradford Boulevard. (h) Sixty-five mile per hour speed limits. A speed limit of sixty-five (65) miles per hour is hereby established for the following streets: (1) I-359 from Junction I-59/20 to 15th Street. (i) Seventy mile per hour speed limits. A speed limit of seventy (70) miles per hour is hereby established for the following streets: (1) I-59/20 from east corporate limits to west corporate limits. (j) Construction speed zones. The city engineer or his/her designee may, in the course of his duties set out in Section 21-26, reduce the speed limit in a construction zone until all construction activities are completed.” FUNDING REQUIRED: Yes No COUNCIL ACTION Resolution Ordinance Introduced Passed 2nd Reading Unanimous Failed Tabled By: Amended Chief Financial Officer Comments: 10