Prattville rezones Redfield Road property for planned development

Prattville moved another piece of the Redfield Road and Cobbs Ford Road corridor into a planned development track, rezoning an east-side tract just south of the intersection from a mix of B-2 general business, FAR forest-agriculture-recreation and B-4 highway commercial to PUD.

The ordinance named Virginia Marie Jones, Sharon Jones, Leslie J. McAhren and Eugene T. Jones as the property owners and identified Blake Rice of BSI as the petitioner. That matters because it points to one specific parcel and one specific development request, not a citywide zoning rewrite. Under a PUD, the city can review the site as one coordinated plan instead of a patchwork of separate zoning labels, which gives officials more room to examine layout, permitted uses and the way the project fits the land around it.

The public notice said the Prattville City Council considered the ordinance at a hearing on May 5, 2026, at 6 p.m. The proposal had also been advertised for two weeks in the Montgomery Advertiser, giving residents a formal chance to weigh in before the council acted. Prattville’s Planning Commission, a volunteer board that makes recommendations on zoning and rezoning requests, is part of that regular review process.

The location is the reason this small zoning change carries larger weight. Redfield Road and Cobbs Ford Road sit in one of Prattville’s busiest growth corridors, where the shape of one parcel can influence traffic, drainage, neighboring property values and the kind of commercial development that follows. Prattville economic-development materials say 2022 ALDOT daily traffic counts on Cobbs Ford Road exceeded 32,610, a figure that helps explain why even a single rezoning can draw attention in this part of the city.

The corridor has already seen similar pressure. In 2023, Prattville approved a rezoning at 2175 Cobbs Ford Road from FAR to B-2 for Christ Lutheran Church, with Flowers & White Engineering, LLC as petitioner. In January 2024, the Alabama Department of Transportation held a public involvement meeting at Prattville City Hall on access management along AL-6 and U.S. Highway 82 from Bass Pro Boulevard to the I-65 southbound ramp, focusing on traffic flow and safety. Prattville economic-development materials also describe Legends Park at U.S. Highway 82 and Cobbs Ford Road as less than a mile from Interstate 65, with the Alabama Department of Public Health Lab and Training Center and Tru Hotel both under construction there.

Taken together, the Redfield Road rezoning shows Prattville still steering its fastest-growing corridor lot by lot, with each decision shaping how much traffic, how much commercial activity and how much change the city will absorb next.