AL HB337

Applies to Alabama municipalities incorporated after 1990 located in counties where another municipality already has zoning authority in its police jurisdiction.

Grants these municipalities full zoning authority within their police jurisdiction to divide territory into business, industrial, and residential zones or districts and adopt implementing ordinances.

Allows property owners to continue existing uses without change until they seek to alter the property's use, protecting grandfathered uses under new zoning ordinances.

In overlapping police jurisdiction areas, each municipality may exercise zoning authority up to a boundary equidistant from their corporate limits, or enter cooperative agreements to determine which exercises authority.

Requires zoning disputes in overlapping areas be resolved by a panel consisting of the two mayors and the county commission chair where the disputed property is located.