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INVITATION TO BID
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Sealed bids for the construction of the Columbus Parkway North Access Road
shall be received at the Opelika City Hall 2nd Floor Conference Room, 204 South Seventh Street, Opelika, Alabama, until 2:00 p.m., local time on July 10, 2023, and then publicly opened and read aloud. All interested parties are invited to attend. Only bids from competent general contractors will be considered. At the time of contract award, the successful bidder must be a properly licensed general contractor. The attention of all bidders is called to the provisions of State law governing “General Contractors” as set forth in the Ala. Code §34-8-1, et.seq. (1975) and rules and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto. Bidders must be licensed by the Licensing Board for General Contractors when bids are submitted.
Bidders are required to have a State of Alabama General Contractor’s License with a specialty of “Highways and Streets, Clearing and Grubbing, Earthwork, Erosion, Site Work, Grading or Municipal and Utility”. All bidders must submit with their proposal, contractor’s license number and a copy of the license. State law Ala. Code §34-8-8(b) requires all bids to be rejected which do not contain the contractor’s current license number. Evidence of this license shall be documented on the outside of the sealed bid.
All bidders shall possess all other licenses and/or permits required by applicable law, rule or regulation for the performance of the work.
Drawings and Specifications may be examined at the Office of the City Engineer located at 700 Fox Trail, Opelika, Alabama, and phone number: 334-705-5450. Bid documents may be obtained from the Office of the City Engineer at no charge as an electronic file if the bidder supplies a storage drive or as an email attachment or electronic drop box.
The bidder’s proposal must be submitted on the complete original proposal furnished to him/her by the City of Opelika. All information in the proposal must be completed by the bidder for the proposal to be accepted.
A Bid Bond in the amount of five (5) percent of the bid amount made payable to the City of Opelika must accompany each bid. Performance and Payment Bonds for the full contract sum will be required of the successful bidder. The right is reserved by the Owner to reject all Bids and to waive irregularities.
Envelopes containing bids must be sealed, marked, addressed as follows, and delivered to: Lillie Finley, Purchasing/Revenue & Codes Director, City of Opelika, 204 South 7th Street, P.O. Box 390, Opelika, Alabama, 36803-0390. Attn: Columbus Parkway North Access Road
LILLIE FINLEY- PURCHASING/REVENUE & CODES DIRECTOR
CITY OF OPELIKA
204 SOUTH SEVENTH STREET (36801)
POST OFFICE BOX 390 (36803-0390) OPELIKA, ALABAMA
PH: (334) 705-5120
Legal Run 06/22/2023, 06/29/2023 & 07/06/2023
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CITY OF OPELIKA
NOTICE OF PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING AND PUBLIC HEARINGS
TO: RESIDENTS AND PROPERTY OWNERS OF THE CITY OF OPELIKA AND ALL OTHER INTERESTED CITIZENS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Planning Commission of the City of Opelika, Alabama will hold a regular meeting and will be conducting public hearings on Tuesday, June 27, 2023 at 3:00 p.m. in the Meeting Chamber at Opelika Municipal Court located at 300 MLK Boulevard, Opelika, Alabama. A Planning Commission work session will be held at 2:45 pm before the regular meeting. The purpose of the public hearings is to receive public comment on the following:
**** The original agenda for the June 27th Planning Commission meeting was published in the Thursday, June 15th issue of the Opelika Observer. The agenda below is an amended agenda that adds one agenda item (#11 Master Plan Revisions) to the original agenda. The amended agenda below will be published in the June 22nd issue of the Opelika Observer ****
I. Some items at the meeting will have a designated public hearing (noted below). Individuals are limited to 5-minute comment period per public hearing.
II. Approval of Minutes
III. Update on Previous PC Cases
IV. New Business
A. Plat (Preliminary only) – Public Hearing
1.A public hearing on a request by Brett Basquin, Foresite Group, LLC, authorized representative for Jim Masingill, Broad Metro, LLC property owners, for preliminary approval of The Landing Redivision of Parcel 2A subdivision consisting of 3 lots accessed from Freddie Way.
2. A public hearing on a request by T. J. Thomas and Mike Maher, authorized representative for Holland Homes, LLC, property owners for preliminary approval of Foxrun Phase 3 subdivision consisting of 43 lots accessed from Village Drive and Woodland Circle.
B. Plat (Preliminary and Final) – Public Hearing
3. A public hearing on a request by Brandon Bolt, Bolt Engineering, Inc. authorized representative For SKPW 400, LLC, property owners, for preliminary and final approval of Pepperell Manufacturing Company Subdivision of Lot 2 subdivision consisting of 2 lots accessed from Cunningham Drive.
C. Rezoning and Plat (Preliminary only) – Public Hearing
4a. An agenda item for a rezoning request includes an amendment to the Future Land Use Map for 4.18 acres accessed from Oak Bowery Road from a low density residential land use category to a medium density land use category. If the Planning Commission votes to send a positive recommendation to the City Council to rezone the 4.18 acres and Council approves the rezoning, then approval of said amendments to the Future Land Use map will be approved.
4b. A rezoning public hearing to consider a recommendation to the City Council on a request by David Slocum, authorized representative for Carolyn Prince Dudley and John Robert Dudley, property owner, to rezone 4.18 acres accessed from Oak Bowery Road from a R-1 to a R-2 zoning district.
5.A public hearing on a request by David Slocum, authorized representative, for Carolyn Prince Dudley and John Robert Dudley-, property owners, for preliminary plat approval of the Southern Pines subdivision consisting of 46 lots accessed from Oak Bowery Road.
D. Rezoning – Public Hearing
6a. An agenda item for a rezoning request contains includes an amendment to the Future Land Use Map for a 7,324 square foot (sf) lot from a general commercial land use category to a light commercial land use category. If the Planning Commission votes to send a positive recommendation to the City Council to rezone the 7,324 sf lot and Council approves the
rezoning, then approval of said amendments to the Future Land Use map will be approved.
6b. A rezoning public hearing to consider a recommendation to the City Council on a request by A & P Holdings, LLC, property owners, to rezone 7,324 sf lot accessed at 1625 1st Avenue from a M-1 to a C-2 zoning district.
E. Final Plat
7.A request by Blake Rice, authorized representative for Fire Rock Development Company, LLC, property owners, for final plat approval of the Laurels Lakes, Phase 1 subdivision plat consisting of 62 lots accessed from North Uniroyal Road.
8.A request by Doug Ransom, authorized representative for DRB Group Alabama, LLC, property owners, for final plat approval of the Wyndham Gates Pod 3, Phase 3 subdivision plat consisting of 9 lots accessed from Raiden Circle.
9.A request by Steve Timms and Mike Maher, authorized representative for Retirement Systems of Alabama, property owners, for final plat approval of the National Village Phase 6B subdivision plat consisting of 9 lots accessed at the corner of Spa Loop and Robert Trent Jones Trail.
F. Other Business
10.The following agenda item is included for review at the June 27th Planning Commission meeting as a recommendation to the City Council. A petition for the vacation of Country Club Road from the 3500 block of Country Club Road to the intersection of Country Club Road and Saugahatchee Road.
G. Master Plan Revisions, Minor Amendment – Public Hearing
11.A public hearing on a request by Joe Mazzucchelli of authorized representative of Trust Homes-Southcoast, LLC, property owners to consider a minor amendment to The Villages at Opelika PUD (Planned Unit Development) at 2003 Executive Park Drive. The amendment concerns minimum front and rear yard setbacks for the proposed single family homes. The existing minimum setbacks are 15 feet in front yard and 10 feet in rear yard. The amendment request is a 10 foot setback in front yard and a 15 foot setback in rear yard. The amendment provides more rear yard space. The Planning Commission will consider the request and vote.
V. Old Business
H. Rezoning – Public Hearing
12a. An agenda item related to a rezoning request concerns an amendment to the Future Land Use Map for 197 acres accessed from Anderson Road and Andrews Road from a low density residential to a mixed use development land use category. If the Planning Commission votes to send a positive recommendation to the City Council to rezone the 197 acres and Council approves the rezoning, then approval of said amendments to the Future Land Use map will be approved.
12b. A public hearing to consider a recommendation to the City Council on a request by Blake Rice, Barrett-Simpson, Inc., authorized representative for 280 Land Company LLC, property owner, to rezone 197 acres accessed from Anderson Road and Andrews Road from R-3 to PUD (Edgefield Farm). (This item was tabled at the April 25, 2023 meeting at the applicant’s request.)
All interested persons are invited to attend the meeting/public hearings and be heard. Written comments concerning the above matters may be mailed to the Planning Director at 700 Fox Trail, Opelika, Alabama 36801 at any time prior to the meeting/public hearings and may be further submitted to the Planning Commission at the meeting/public hearings.
The Planning Commission reserves the right to modify or alter any of the proposed amendments to the Zoning Ordinance and to make its recommendations accordingly to the City Council.
Please contact the Planning department at 334-705-5156 at least two (2) working days prior to the meeting if you require special accommodations due to a disability.
PLANNING DIRECTOR
Legal Run 06/22/2023
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
ESTATE OF SHAWN CORNELL MONTGOMERY, Deceased
PROBATE COURT OF LEE COUNTY, ALABAMA
CASE NO.: 2023-282
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Take Notice that LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION of said deceased having been granted to Cindy Richardson-Montgomery on the 23rd day of May 2023, by the Honora-ble Bill English, Judge of the Probate Court of Lee County, Alabama
Notice is hereby given that all persons having claims against said estate are hereby re-quired to present the same within time allowed by law or the same will be barred.
Cindy Richardson-Montgomery
Legal Run 06/22/2023, 06/29/2023 & 07/06/2023