Working with the Regional Planning Commission of Greater Birmingham, Tarrant has drafted and adopted a Comprehensive Plan. The City adopted a Comprehensive Land Use and Zoning Ordinance to compliment the Comprehensive Plan. Some projects, like the Five mile Creek Greenway project, were underway and continue to be developed. However, like too many city plans, some of the other community needs identified within the Comprehensive Plan were shelved along with the plan. The intent is to use the opportunity that the ACE program provides to bring all the shareholders to the table to have a serious discussion about the future of the City. Intended outcomes include: leadership development within the City, the development of strategic plans with identified goals and action steps to be taken to reach those goals, improved communication between the school board and the city officials in an attempt to have each understand the needs of the other and promote a unified plan that best serves the needs of both, to improve a sense of place that folk will be proud to call their home, and to address community and economic development in order to grow and prosper. Tarrant has seen better times. There is no reason that this community, that is contiguous to City of Birmingham, its international airport, and transportation corridors should not continue to improve and become the best that it can be.
The Alabama Communities of Excellence (ACE) program is a comprehensive three-phase approach to economic and community development for cities with populations between 2,000 and 12,000. With the mission of helping Alabama’s smaller communities to plan, grow and prosper, ACE partners from the private sector, governmental agencies, and universities work with each community to successfully achieve the vision and goals created during the ACE program. (www.alabamacommunitiesofexcellence.org)
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