Prattville Council Adopts Ordinance Annexing 104-Acre Glennbrooke Phase 10 Near Saratoga Lane

The City of Prattville adopted and published an ordinance on Feb. 23, 2026 that extends the city's corporate limits to include Glennbrooke Phase 10, a parcel identified at Saratoga Lane and Sydney Drive S Extension totaling about 103.96 acres (city materials also describe it as approximately 104 acres). The ordinance, captioned "Ordinance to Annexation of Property outside Corporate Limits located at Saratoga Lane and Sydney Drive S Extension, Glennbrooke 10," lists David L. and Diane R. Avant as petitioners and Barrett-Simpson, Inc. as their representative.

The ordinance sets out the legal findings in formal language: "BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Prattville, Alabama, that the City of Prattville is a City with a population of over 6,000 inhabitants located in the State of Alabama." It states the petition was heard by the Prattville Planning Commission on Dec. 18, 2025 and confirmed on Jan. 15, 2026, and that all owners as defined by Alabama Code §11-42-20 executed the petition. The ordinance further declares the annexed property "shall become part of the Corporate Limits of Prattville, Alabama, upon passage and publication of this Ordinance as required by law."

Planning records show the annexation followed a Planning Commission recommendation. At the Dec. 18, 2025 meeting the commission read and approved a resolution recommending annexation of roughly 103.96 acres for Glennbrooke Phase 10 after a staff report and public comment. Resident speakers raised stormwater runoff concerns and urged planners to consider additional access points and more mixed-use elements so the neighborhood would not funnel traffic through a single exit.

Developer representatives addressed zoning and design at the Planning Commission hearing. Blake Rice of BSI (Barrett-Simpson, Inc.) explained the development team requested R-3 zoning rather than R-2 for Phase 10, citing narrower side-yard setbacks needed for the side-entry garage house types that predominate in Glennbrooke. Rice told planners, "The side yard setbacks in R‑2 are much larger… Glenbrook is predominantly a side‑entry subdivision," and said the developer would support larger front-yard setbacks to balance the change.

Glennbrooke has been a multi-phase project for years; earlier coverage in 2021 described Glennbrooke as a substantial subdivision with more than 700 homes then in Phase 8 of 10 and noted a conceptual plan for Phase 9 of 142 lots. The current ordinance references the parcel description in an Attachment "A" that was not included with the published text; the ordinance and Planning Commission actions do not include a detailed lot count for Phase 10 in the public excerpts.

The annexation ordinance asserts compliance with Alabama Code §§11-42-20 through 11-42-23 and places the parcel inside Prattville's corporate limits upon the ordinance's publication. Zoning for Phase 10 remains to be finalized; the Planning Commission's recommendation advanced annexation but formal zoning decisions for the parcel require subsequent action by the City Council in its legislative role.