At the April 7, 2025, Hoover City Council meeting, Mayor Frank Brocato proposed a significant shift in how the city will spend $6.1 million from a General Obligation bond that was originally earmarked for a performing arts center. Instead, the funds are now being directed toward upgrading the aging sewer system in the Riverchase area…
Category: Hoover Neighborhoods
It’s not possible to be Pro-Hoover City Schools and anti-Stadium Trace Village Phase 2
It would be fair to say that the controversy between Hoover Mayor Frank Brocato, Hoover Council President John Lyda and Stadium Trace Village developer Will Kadish was made public at the April 1, 2024 Hoover City Council meeting. But no matter what side you’re on, there is no debate that you cannot be a pro-Hoover…
Fair and Reasonable Decision
Failing to plan is planning to fail – Alan Lakein On Monday, June 5, 2017 the Hoover City Council will be voting on approving the First Amendment to the Blackridge Planned Unit Development (Blackridge PUD) and to the Eleventh Amendment to the Trace Crossings Planned Unit Development (Trace Crossings PUD). . Both amendments consist of several items, which will…
Once upon a time in Bluff Park…
On November 21, 2006, the Hoover City Council conducted their second meeting of the month. As with previous Council meetings, it opened with an invocation and the Pledge of Allegiance. Following the Pledge, one of the first items on the agenda was the presentation of the book “Images of Modern America: Riverchase” by Heather Skaggs,…